On Monday Federal District Judge Lamberth gave a surprising ruling in Sherley v Sebelius, handing down an injunction preventing new US health guidelines on human stem cell research, drawn up on President Obama’s instructions, from being given effect on the […]

Two years ago now, I wrote that Bavaria’s ban on smoking in public buildings had been upheld by the German Constitutional Court. But it, or a new version of it, has recently been challenged again – and again upheld.

Just […]

I’m a bit troubled by the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Servier Laboratories v NICE, in which the Court has granted Servier’s appeal, quashing the National Institute for Clinical Excellence’s decision not to recommend Servier’s drug Protelos […]

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.

I’ve been slow in reacting to the Lords’ final judgment yesterday in R (Purdy) v DPP, partly because I was in Cambridge, but partly because I’ve been worrying at the judgment since I heard the news reports […]

I’m back from Berlin now, but thought you might want to catch up with part two of this summer’s German constitutional litigation over the smoking bans introduced by various Länder. You may recall that the bans in […]

As the lawyer responsible for Part VII of the Care Standards Act, I’m glad that this attempt has failed to limit the misconduct that can be taken into account by the Care Standards Tribunal on an appeal by a […]

I’m afraid you need to read German in order to read the recent judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court in which it has ruled unconstitutional smoking bans in Berlin and Baden-Württemberg. There is also a press release which […]

Yesterday the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency announced it had decided not to prosecute GlaxoSmithKline for offences under medicines legislation, although it says GSK failed to inform it promptly of data it had from clinical trials suggesting that the […]

The Tory MP for Shrewsbury, Daniel Kawczynski, has tabled an interesting amendment which would require the government to renegotiate the Lisbon treaty to insert a declaration that the EU is based on its Christian faith, heritage, culture and […]