At the Commons Home Affairs select committee today, both the DPP Sir Ken MacDonald and the last Attorney General Lord Goldsmith have said they see no need to extend pre-charge detention of terror suspects beyond 28 days.

Damningly […]

Iain Dale has raised the question whether those whose data has been leaked by HMRC could sue.

The answer is, strictly no; you can’t sue simply for loss of your data. But if you suffer damage – say, […]

Le Monde says the former French President was questioned this morning by juge d’instruction Xavière Siméoni. The dossier she’s investigating relates to the misuse of funds from the office of the mayor of Paris – […]

There are two of them.

First, Ward v PSNI, in which the Lords ruled that it was lawful, under the Terrorism Act 2000, for a judge considering an extension of detention, so that the police could […]

Well, he didn’t quite say that in terms, as we lawyers say. But he did agree with the thrust of JB’s comment on my David Pannick fisk, in his interview in the Times today. […]

The judgment isn’t available online yet, but here’s a press release explaining the basis of the Musharraf ruling. If you’re interested, Wikipedia has an entry on the bogus new chief justice, Abdul Hameed Dogar.

How simply astonishing. I like the BBC euphemism “reshaped”, for “hand-picked”.

Not only is the French justice minister Rachida Dati planning to close courts – Le Monde reckons a quarter of civil courts and half of employment tribunals are going to go; she’s also suggested in an […]

I don’t know – but if your judges operate like this, you must be “up there”. Don’t despair, though: you can always work for a man’s law firm, if the specialized committee agrees to allow that.

Today the Lords gave judgment in AH (Sudan), an important asylum case involving a “country guidance” decision from the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, but specifically on the question of internal relocation: whether it’s reasonable to expect a refugee subject […]