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  • Is Ed’s energy freeze lawful?

    Carl Gardner
    September 25, 2013

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    The centrepiece of Ed Miliband’s speech to Labour’s conference yesterday was this:

    If we win the election 2015 the next […]

    Tags: business, competition, eu law, internal market, state aid
  • Press regulation: the international aspect

    Carl Gardner
    March 26, 2013

    An exchange in last night’s Lords debate on the new press regulation clauses in the Crime and Courts Bill revealed a little-noticed – and no doubt to some, astonishing – aspect of the proposed system: it covers foreign publishers.

    Lord […]

    Tags: eu law, freedom of expression, human rights, international, legislation, media law, parliament
  • Julian Assange: “democracy is the sum of our resistance”

    Carl Gardner
    December 21, 2012

    I went along tonight to hear Julian Assange’s speech wondering just slightly if he might not astonish […]

    Tags: crime, eu law, government, human rights, international
  • Supreme Court judgment: Prix v Work and Pensions Secretary

    Carl Gardner
    October 31, 2012

    In what amounts to a defeat for the government, the Supreme Court has decided in this case to refer to the European Court of Justice questions on the interpretation of the EU Citizenship Directive, 2004/38.

    From the government’s point of view, […]

    Tags: benefits, cjeu, ecj, eu law, government, UK Supreme Court
  • Craig Murray’s Newsnight outburst: the law on anonymity should be tightened

    Carl Gardner
    August 21, 2012

    Last night on the BBC’s Newsnight, Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, named one of the women whose evidence has led Swedish prosecutors to seek the extradition of Julian Assange.

    I agree with those who think this was […]

    Tags: attorney general, crime, eu law, freedom of expression, legislation, media law, private life
  • Lord Kerr on the Assange case

    Carl Gardner
    June 28, 2012

    Two weeks ago now at Inner Temple, the Supreme Court Justice Lord Kerr gave the fifth annual Boydell Lecture – and chose as his title A European Understanding of “Judicial Authority” as highlighted in Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority. The […]

    Tags: eu law, human rights, UK Supreme Court
  • Could Assange apply to set aside the Supreme Court judgment?

    Carl Gardner
    May 30, 2012

    In my post earlier today about Julian Assange’s Supreme Court appeal, today’s judgment and the unusual procedural turn that followed it. To remind you, the suggestion made by Dinah Rose QC, for Julian Assange, was that she might apply to […]

    Tags: crime, eu law, human rights, UK Supreme Court
  • Supreme Court judgment: Assange v Swedish Judicial Authority

    Carl Gardner
    May 30, 2012

    Here’s today’s Supreme Court judgment: the Justices decide by a majority of 5 to 2 to dismiss Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition. The term “judicial authority” in Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 does include public prosecutors such […]

    Tags: crime, eu law, human rights, UK Supreme Court
  • What if Julian Assange loses in the Supreme Court?

    Carl Gardner
    May 29, 2012

    Tomorrow the UK Supreme Court gives its eagerly-awaited judgment in Assange v Swedish Judicial Authority, in which it will decide whether the Swedish prosecutor is indeed a judicial authority for the purposes of Part 1 of the Extradition Act […]

    Tags: crime, eu law, extradition, human rights, UK Supreme Court
  • Karen Murphy’s costs

    Carl Gardner
    March 8, 2012

    When I wrote a couple of weeks ago about Karen Murphy’s successful appeal against conviction for dishonestly receiving a broadcast with intent to avoid payment under section 297(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, I mentioned that there […]

    Tags: crime, eu law
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