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  • Murphy v Media Protection Services

    Carl Gardner
    February 24, 2012

    I was at the High Court this morning to see the quashing of Karen Murphy’s conviction under section 297(1) of the Copyright, Designs and […]

    Tags: crime, eu law, media law
  • Today’s “Twitter joke” appeal hearing

    Carl Gardner
    February 8, 2012

    I was live-tweeting today from the High Court hearing of Paul Chambers’s appeal in the “Twitter joke” case – an important case not just because of the way it represents the law’s arguably problematic collision with social media but […]

    Tags: crime, freedom of expression, human rights, Twitter
  • The “Twitter joke” appeal: interview with David Allen Green

    Carl Gardner
    February 8, 2012

    Shortly after today’s hearing ended in Paul Chambers’s “case stated” appeal to the High Court in the “Twitter joke” case, I spoke to his solicitor David Allen Green – and asked him how he thought the hearing had gone.

    Tags: crime, human rights, podcasts, Twitter
  • Those Eurocrime repatriators

    Carl Gardner
    February 6, 2012

    I wrote in my last post, musing on what might happen if Julian Assange were to win his Supreme Court appeal, that

    many Eurosceptics would prefer us simply to pull out of the entire system of criminal cooperation in Europe, […]

    Tags: crime, eu law, human rights, parliament
  • What if Julian Assange won? EU headache? Or Eurosceptic dream?

    Carl Gardner
    February 3, 2012

    I doubt very much he will: I think the Supreme Court will be driven to conclude that the phrase judicial authority in the European Arrest Warrant Framework Decision is capable of including a public prosecutor, and that UK legislation […]

    Tags: crime, eu law
  • Julian Assange in the Supreme Court

    Carl Gardner
    February 1, 2012

    Julian Assange today takes his argument against extradition to Sweden to the UK Supreme Court. The hearing is due to finish tomorrow – it’s not clear yet when the Court is likely to publish its judgment.

    There’s one question only being […]

    Tags: crime, eu law, extradition, human rights, UK Supreme Court
  • Al-Khawaja & Tahery v UK: Lord Irvine vindicated

    Carl Gardner
    December 15, 2011

    In his lecture last night, Lord Irvine invited British judges to become more assertive in deciding human rights cases for themselves, agreeing or disagreeing with the European Court of Human Rights, as they see fit. Today’s judgment from the […]

    Tags: crime, evidence, human rights
  • Without Prejudice

    Carl Gardner
    July 1, 2011

    In the latest Without Prejudice podcast, Charon QC, Timothy Pitt-Payne QC, Amanda Bancroft of Beneath The Wig and I discuss

    • Lady Hale’s comments on legal aid
    • the law on checking out potential employees
    • the Milly Dowler murder […]
    Tags: charon qc, crime, employment, human rights, podcasts
  • No bail-out for Strauss-Kahn

    Carl Gardner
    May 16, 2011

    The IMF boss and front-runner to be the French Socialist Party’s presidential candidate next year, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been refused bail by a court in New York, according to the BBC. As has been widely reported he’s facing a […]

    Tags: crime, extradition, france, prisons, US
  • Without Prejudice

    Carl Gardner
    February 25, 2011

    In our first Without Prejudice podcast, Charon QC chaired as David Allen Green and I together with our guest Joanne Cash discuss the Julian Assange case, European Arrest Warrants and the Garry Mann case as well as the case […]

    Tags: crime, eu law, human rights, podcasts
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