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  • No bail-out for Strauss-Kahn

    Carl Gardner
    May 16, 2011

    The IMF boss and front-runner to be the French Socialist Party’s presidential candidate next year, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been refused bail by a court in New York, according to the BBC. As has been widely reported he’s facing a […]

    Tags: crime, extradition, france, prisons, US
  • Legal advice at the police station – French and Scottish style

    Carl Gardner
    October 20, 2010

    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. […]

    Tags: crime, france, human rights, police, scotland
  • France, the veil and freedom of religion

    Carl Gardner
    July 9, 2010

    This week the French National Assembly has finally been debating the government’s proposed legislation banning the wearing of the “full face veil” – the niqab, burka or any other piece of clothing that hides the face. I wrote in […]

    Tags: france, human rights, religion
  • It was only au revoir…

    Carl Gardner
    March 31, 2010

    I’m glad to say Rachida Dati is in the news again on the other side of the water. The Telegraph reports a claim that Nicolas Sarkozy suspects her of being the source of the recent rumours about his marriage; […]

    Tags: france
  • Banning the burka in France

    Carl Gardner
    January 14, 2010

    While the British government bans Islamist groups, it looks very much as though some kind of ban is going to be imposed in France on being completely veiled – wearing the niqab, chador and burka – in public. A

    Tags: discrimination, france, human rights, religion
  • Au revoir, Rachida…

    Carl Gardner
    January 23, 2009

    Oh no! She’s going! Not quite yet, but the French justice minister Rachida Dati will leave Nicolas Sarkozy’s government in a matter of weeks in order to run in the European elections. She’s being reshuffled out, basically. Shame. She […]

    Tags: france, rachida dati
  • Three legal stories from France

    Carl Gardner
    November 19, 2008

    A hot week for legal news from France. First, if you remember the controversy over the annulment of the marriage of a couple from Lille – on the grounds that the wife had lied about being a virgin – […]

    Tags: clearstream, family, france, rachida dati
  • Le salaud lumineux

    Carl Gardner
    September 25, 2008

    David Pannick’s Times column today is about the most famous French advocate of the age, Jacques Vergès, a repellent yet compelling figure whose political extremism and cynicism make radical British lawyers look like naive lackeys of the establishment.

    Tags: crime, david pannick, france
  • Beware of legal Francophilia

    Carl Gardner
    August 8, 2008

    It’s a good story, and I agree with Simon Jenkins about the connected problems of police ineffectiveness and lack of traditional social restraints in Britain. No doubt the story is true, and perhaps things are better in France. But […]

    Tags: crime, france, scotland
  • More trouble in France

    Carl Gardner
    June 4, 2008

    The other French story concerns Sarko’s legal axewoman Rachida Dati, the very sexy but somewhat dangerous minister of justice. She’s got herself into trouble by initially defending the judgment of a court in Lille, which granted annulment of a […]

    Tags: family, france, rachida dati
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