A committee of nine Law Lords has unanimously rejected this claim that the article 2 Convention right to life of soldiers killed in Iraq requires the government to hold an inquiry into how the UK came to invade, how […]

There are five of them.

Brit Syndicates is about the construction of an insurance indemnity policy: not my kind of thing at all. Total Network is about VAT “carousel” or “MTIC” fraud […]

There are four judgments today: none of them really grab me by the throat, but I’m sure they’ll interest others. There’s a technical one about European Arrest Warrants, Pilecki v Circuit Court of Legnica; technical consolidated criminal […]

I was at a conference yesterday, which is why I didn’t blog about yesterday’s Lords judgment in A v Hoare and related appeals, in which they ruled that civil claims for damages can be made out of […]

The Law Lords are back with their first judgments of the new year – in a private international law Lugano Convention case, Phillips v Syme, and in a VAT case, Fleming and Condé Nast […]

The legality or otherwise of the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 has been the biggest international legal issue of our time – and it continues to cause division and disagreement not only in the Dog and […]

The Lords judgment handed down today is in a Hague Convention child abduction case: there is discretion under article 12 of the not to order the return even of an unlawfully abducted child, in exceptional circumstances.

There are two of them.

First, Ward v PSNI, in which the Lords ruled that it was lawful, under the Terrorism Act 2000, for a judge considering an extension of detention, so that the police could […]