Komla Dumor interviewed me on The World Today this morning about the Julian Assange case. It begins at 9:20.

In case you’re wondering, I wasn’t really “legal adviser to Tony Blair”, which makes me sound as though I used to […]

Charon QC talked to me yesterday as a follow-up to his interview with Mark Stephens last Friday – by some way the most interesting interview I’ve heard Mark Stephens give since Julian Assange’s arrest last week. Charon and […]

CharonQC managed to secure an interview today with Mark Stephens – no doubt a very busy solicitor at the moment, given the arrest and detention of his client Julian Assange on a European arrest warrant from Sweden.

Mark Stephens tells […]

Julian Assange’s arrest under a European arrest warrant, and the initial hearing before a district judge, has been the biggest news story in the UK today.

All this is happening under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003. Sweden […]

We’ve finally got the Supreme Court’s reasoning in R v Chaytor and others – in which former MPs and a peer argued that Parliamentary privilege prevents their being prosecuted for offences relating to their expenses claims.

As I’ve said […]

It was always obvious that Parliamentary privilege doesn’t prevent the trial of MPs accused of expenses fraud – and unsurprisingly, the Supreme Court has ruled that it doesn’t. There’s no written judgment yet, but I’ll link to it when […]

The Supreme Court has given judgment today in this case about whether Scottish criminal suspects must have the right to a lawyer when being questioned in the first hours after they’re arrested and detained, a right which legislation currently […]

It used to be common in England to suggest that criminal justice was better in France or in Scotland. Well, each is another country, and they do things differently there. I’ve absolutely no doubt some of their laws are better. […]

I wrote yesterday at Guardian Law about the Law Commission’s new consultation paper on Criminal Liability in Regulatory Contexts, which has been reported as proposing the repeal of minor criminal offences:

The alternative approach proposed by the Law […]

The Crown Prosecution Service has issued a press release today saying it has decided that Ray Gosling should be prosecuted for wasting police time under section 5(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1967, following his Inside Out […]