Gordon Brown’s conference speech yesterday gripped the nation, obviously – if you want to know what I thought of it politically, have a look at my other blog. A couple of constitutional and legal points emerged from it too, […]

The other Lords judgment yesterday came in this interesting case about section 11 of the Public Order Act 1986, and whether Critical Mass is a procession requiring to be notified to the police, or is exempt under […]

Six people are on trial at the moment at Maidstone Crown Court for criminal damage, having painted slogans on Kingsnorth power station last year in protest against climate change, and will be defending themselves on the basis of “lawful […]

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 […]

I’m not entirely happy with Burton J’s Administrative Court judgment in Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education, in which he criticised Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth. I think the judgment is an unfortunate exercise in micromanagement of […]

The European Commission has announced that it’s submitting to the EP and Council a proposal for a Directive on environmental crime. This is its reaction to the European Court of Justice’s ruling in the