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 […]

I’m catching up here on a House of Lords judgment I missed a few weeks ago in October. Bancoult is the culmination of a legal saga in which Chagossians – the people cleared off the British Indian […]

There are two today, both from Northern Ireland.

In Re E is about the protests and distress of little girls trying to attend the Holy Cross Church in north Belfast in 2001 in the midst of […]

The other interesting judgment from the Lords in what Joshua Rozenberg thinks must have been a record output yesterday was in R (Baiai) v Home Secretary. This case is about section 19 of the Asylum […]

The other reader request comes from an equally esteemed legal chap whose legal interests closely match those of Head of Legal and who finds early mornings equally or perhaps even more challenging. He asks what I […]

The Lords’ judgment in the case of In Re P (Northern Ireland) is an important one on the relationship between the UK courts applying the Human Rights Act 1998 on the one hand, and the European Court […]

Some people have suggested that when the House of Lords becomes our Supreme Court in just over a year, it should abandon the practice of judges giving individual judgments, sometimes disagreeing with each other, which means lawyers have to work […]

I’m enjoying watching Lord Goldsmith, who’s Andrew Neil’s guest on the Daily Politics today. He’s a serious chap more suited to Newsnight or Today than to joshing about the way Andrew Neil does – but he’s doing his best.

The Lords have given quite an interesting judgment today on the standard of proof in care proceedings under the Children Act 1989, which I think in principle applies across the board in civil proceedings. They’ve cut through the confusion […]

This case is about a civil action against the police, who shot dead an unarmed man when raiding his home to arrest him. The policeman who fired the shot was acquitted of murder and manslaughter on the judge’s direction; […]