It’s brilliant to see that lawyers are leading the protests against what Dawn newspaper has called Musharraf’s “second coup” in Pakistan. The confrontation began (as this BBC story explains) earlier this year when Musharraf […]

In the E case their Lordships had no difficulty in agreeing that a curfew of 12 hours a day, combined with noticeably less restrictive conditions than in the JJ case (E lives with his wife […]

My lengthy post on the JJ case explained how the Home Secretary has now been limited to imposing curfews of 16 hours (or less) under her control order regime; I thought I’d better post again though, on the […]

On Wednesday the Lords gave their judgment in the appeals of JJ and others, MB and AF, and E, against the making of control orders against them under the Prevention […]

In its judgment today in case C-411/05 Palacios de la Villa , the ECJ has ruled that Directive 2000/78, which outlaws discrimination on grounds of age, does not prevent member states from legislating so as to permit compulsory […]

The Times today has a few letters responding to the government and Lord Wedderburn on the Reform Treaty.

Robert Gutfreund Walmsley’s letter makes depressing eurosceptic reading. What does he mean by the dual nationality provision? There?s nothing new in […]

The Court of Appeal has in effect upheld as lawful the actions of the police during the May Day demo in Oxford Circus in central London in 2001. You may remember that the police in effect trapped several thousand […]

Both the mainstream media and leading blogs have picked up on Henderson J’s judgment in the Chancery Division of the High Court, ruling invalid Branislav Kostic’s will, in which he left millions of pounds to the Conservative […]

Writing to the Times, this time, about the Charter again and those cases he mentioned in the Telegraph last week.

Just in case George and Alastair have got you running for the exits clutching your capital gains, there’s an interesting article in Accountancy Age suggesting that the taxman’s system of exit charges on businesses relocating elsewhere in the EU […]