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’m a bit disheartened by this story. I entirely agree that bail conditions should be properly enforced: the fact that Adam Swellings felt able to return to Warrington immediately after being bailed on condition he shouldn’t return […]

I heard via Charon QC, while checking my blawg feeds between teaching freedom of the person and free movement of persons, the news that Peter Hain has resigned from the Cabinet following the Electoral […]

I’ve blogged often enough before about the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, its requirements in relation to political donations and the offences that can be committed under it. And as I explained yesterday in Consilio’s audio […]

Iain Dale thinks Peter Hain’s in deep trouble, with the most recent revelations about donations to his deputy leadership campaign. Iain’s thinking primarily of political trouble of course, but he may also mean legal http://www.gooakley.com/ trouble: and […]

The Adminstrative Court has today dismissed a judicial review brought by the fundamentalist organisation Christian Voice. Its director Stephen Green had challenged the decision of the District Judge in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court not to issue summonses […]

I’ve left it far, far too long before commenting on the important “ship-source” pollution case in which the European Court of Justice gave its ruling a few weeks ago. Remiss of me. But even if the delay means I’ve […]

Iain Dale is quite right about the need to declare to the Electoral Commission any mortgages owed to banks etc.. Section 71F of PPERA makes that clear. Here’s the Electoral Commission’s guidance; paragraphs 3.8-3.10, on page 12, are […]

As I’ve already said in an earlier post, some people in discussing donorgate, or donationsgate, of Abrahamsgate or whatever it is, are inclined to wild talk about whether the police might be investigating Theft Act offences like theft and […]

Some people might be rashly suggesting offences other than those under PPERA might have been committed – but I think that’s wild talk, to be frank.

Some might suggest it’s false accounting – but to charge that under