From reading Iain Dale’s Diary I see the Tories still haven’t filled their vacancy for shadow Attorney – six months seems to me a bit of a gap if you take the role at all seriously. Appointing Lord […]

Lord Lester also spoke in Tuesday’s debate, and although he didn’t give a full explanation of why he resigned from his role as a government adviser recently, he did give some clues. He obviously hoped for a much […]

Now that Dominic Grieve has been promoted to David Davis’s old job, legal nerds like me wonder who’s going to get his role as shadow Attorney General. The simplest, quickest thing might be to give it to Edward Garnier, […]

Corner House and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade have succeeded in their judicial review of the SFO’s decision to discontinue its investigation into possible bribery by BAe Systems related to the Al Yamamah arms contracts with Saudi Arabia. You’ll […]

If you’re like me, then reading legal journals or the legal pages of newspapers means, far too often, looking at yet another uncritical profile of or interview with some office-holder, often telling you how determined he or she is about […]

Frances Gibb in today’s Times is reporting that the government will propose handing over to the DPP the Attorney’s role of consenting to a range of prosecutions – although otherwise, the Attorney’s role will remain unchanged.

I was quite sniffy about the Campaign Against the Arms Trade’s judicial review challenge to the government’s decision to abandon its criminal investigation of BAe Systems and the Al Yamamah deal. Well, I’m not now saying I think the […]

It seems the former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno has produced (well, sort of) a 3-CD collection of songs telling the story of her country. Song of America will feature covers http://www.gooakley.com/ of famous tunes […]

I’ve been so hugely busy, what with law lecturing, festivals of burlesque cinema, podcasting with Charon and all that, that I’ve neglected to post a report of last Thursday night’s politico-legal boozefest when Head of Legal managed somehow […]

Thanks to Charon for spotting the Times story today reporting that both current law officers, Baroness Scotland and Vera Baird, agree with the line taken yesterday by Lord Goldsmith, and feel that the case has […]