It’s all about him at the moment, isn’t it? Now, the ECtHR has decided to give him €2,800 to compensate him for his detention in Belmarsh prison from 2002 to 2005.

There’ll be strong feelings about this ruling, […]

I stuck to legal analysis in my last post on Abu Qatada, because I think that’s more interesting than writing about how wicked he is and/or how wicked torture is. But reading this extraordinary piece by Victoria Brittain at […]

The Lords today have ruled today, unanimously, in RB (Algeria) and OO (Jordan) v Home Secretary that Algerian terror suspects and the Jordanian Abu Qatada can lawfully be deported to their home countries; to do so would […]

The extension of bail for Christopher Galley and Damian Green, is, according to the CPS, to enable them to “resolve issues of Parliamentary privilege”.

It’ll be a pity if this renews the hopeless debate about the entirely […]

Both the Telegraph and the Daily Mail reported earlier this week about an evangelical Christian who’s been taken off the fostering register by her local authority after a sixteen-year-old girl, brought up as a Muslim, converted to Christianity […]

This morning Charon QC spoke to me about Geert Wilders, and my view that his exclusion is unlawful – it was a good chance for me to put together all the strands of my analysis, as set out my […]

I’ve not heard any comment about this either from Liberty, or from David Davis. Why not? It’s a major free speech issue.

In my previous post on this I forgot another reason why the decision to exclude Geert Wilders from the UK breaches EU law. It’s arbitrary – in this sense of treating Wilders differently from UK nationals.

One of […]

As has been widely reported, the Home Office has decided to exclude the controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders from the UK; here’s the letter it sent him notifying the decision. Many people will be troubled by this: there […]

I’m interested that Lord Goldsmith, writing in yesterday’s Independent, essentially agrees with me on the Binyam Mohamed case:

That the High Court finally agreed – with some apparent regret – with the Foreign Secretary in believing […]