Having written about asylum detention yesterday, an interesting Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment caught my eye today. Father Seraphim Vänttinen-Newton, a Russian Orthodox priest, has won his appeal for unfair dismissal against GEO Group, the private firm that runs Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre (or "removal centre", as the UK Borders Agency website calls it).

It's frustrating and dispiriting to read the judgment in R (Rostami) v Home Secretary. And I think difficult to work out what you think about the problem of asylum detention generally.

Thanks to David Mery for pointing me to this video of Ms. Abbott’s award-winning speech. What a brilliant medium the web is, eh?

On Wednesday in the Court of Appeal, Mohamed Raissi successfully resisted the police’s appeal against his successful action for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment, having been arrested shortly after 9/11 together with his brother, Lotfi, and his sister […]

Jacqui Smith seems to have persuaded some Labour MPs at the meeting of backbenchers last night – though to be honest, listening to some of the converts I wonder whether they had understood the legislation before now. Nick Robinson […]