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 […]

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 […]

The Court of Appeal has today rejected the appeal by BT and TalkTalk in their judicial review of the Digital Economy Act 2010. This is a disappointment for digital rights campaigners, but not legally surprising – the arguments made […]

This afternoon after Prime Minister’s questions Bill Cash MP (what would we do without him?) has secured a debate in Parliament about the legality of the “fiscal treaty” – the new agreement between EU member states other than Britain (and […]

I also spoke briefly today outside court with Karen Murphy’s solicitor, Paul Dixon of Molesworths Bright Clegg.

Karen Murphy also spoke to the assembled media, as they say, in front of the Royal Courts of Justice – here’s what she said.

Shortly after her conviction was quashed, Karen Murphy spoke to me briefly outside court.

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]