• Missing Madeleine McCann

    Carl Gardner
    May 17, 2007

    I very much agree with Iain Dale about the media coverage of the “suspect” Robert Murat and indeed of the Russian man who’s now in the spotlight. I really wish the BBC and other media would think again before […]

  • Judicial review: everyone’s at it

    Carl Gardner
    May 16, 2007

    Apparently the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a judicial review of the government’s plans to change the way we buy and sell houses in England and Wales with the introduction of Home Information Packs this summer. […]

  • RemedyUK’s judicial review of MTAS

    Carl Gardner
    May 16, 2007

    RemedyUK was in the Administrative Court at the RCJ today, at the hearing of its judicial review challenge to the government’s MTAS system for appointing junior doctors. Tom De La Mare of Blackstone Chambers is for them, instructed by Leigh […]

  • Femme Fatale

    Carl Gardner
    May 10, 2007

    It seems one thing Segolene Royal has in common with her partner Francois Hollande is an intention to sue over claims http://www.raybani.com/ made in a book about her, La Femme Fatale, written by two journalists with Le […]

  • Minijust

    Carl Gardner
    May 9, 2007

    It’s the first day of the existence of the new Ministry of Justice. I’ve nothing against this, really; it seems to me reasonable enough to organise government in this way. But there are a couple of grumpy things I […]

  • Charlie Hebdo – justice prevails!

    Carl Gardner
    March 23, 2007

    You may be as pleased and relieved as I am to know that the editor of Charlie Hebdo was finally acquitted by the Paris Tribunal Correctionnel of the criminal charges brought against him by Islamic Organisations.

    Unfortunately I […]

  • That injunction again

    Carl Gardner
    March 6, 2007

    What Nick Robinson says in his blog today is interesting:

    I see absolutely no evidence that the attorney did anything other than what all previous occupants of his post would have done, ie to respond to […]

  • Goldsmith’s injunction against the BBC

    Carl Gardner
    March 3, 2007

    Extraordinary news, this: the Attorney has injuncted the BBC from showing a report about cash-for-honours.

    Presumably it’s to prevent what he thinks would be contempt of court – a publication that would seriously risk substantial prejudice (I’m away […]

  • David Pannick and the Attorney General

    Carl Gardner
    February 27, 2007

    In today’s Times, David Pannick argues for major reform of the Attorney General’s role, along the lines argued by various people including even ministers in recent weeks. He argues that Lord Goldsmith’s recent endorsement of the […]

  • The niqab; and the Human Rights Act debate

    Carl Gardner
    February 21, 2007

    The BBC report that Mr. Justice Silber has turned down a judicial review application by a girl who wanted to wear the niqab, or veil, to school in Buckinghamshire.

    This was an attempt to get a different result […]