It’s been a tremendous week for protesting women, not just because Kay Tabernacle and the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp beat John Hutton, but also because Women on Waves have beaten Portugal in Strasbourg. It was a breach […]

Yesterday the Court of Appeal gave judgment in this case about the right to freedom of expression – specifically to protest at the Aldermaston atomic weapons establishment. The protest in question is the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp; and the […]

Here it is. I think it’s a good judgment, and I’m glad I was cautious last night about joining the chorus of outrage: it does not seem obvious to me that justice requires the 25-line summary of evidence the […]

It’s difficult, without seeing the judges’ ruling, to be completely sure that the information Thomas LJ and Lloyd-Jones J would like to publish relating to the treatment of Binyam Mohamed must be published by a British court: originally […]

The House of Lords gave judgment yesterday in this human rights judicial review about provisional listing under Part VII of the Care Standards Act 2000, which sets up a scheme for “listing” people thought unsuitable to work with […]

Here we go again. It only seems ten minutes since I was exasperated by the Damian Green affair, specifically the way MPs, media and blogs all focused quite wrongly on the extremely lawful and proper search of Damian Green’s Westminster […]

Something I’ve not yet commented on since my part facultative-festive and part enforced-technological break is the welcome restoration of sense and good legal analysis to the field of religious discrimination by the Employment Appeal Tribunal, which has reversed

The European Court of Human Rights has today ruled against the UK in this important case about retention of DNA samples and profiles as well as fingerprints. S had been charged with attempted burglary when 11 in 2001; he […]

Sam Coates at Red Box has apparently been given differing views about how bad misconduct has to be in order to count for the purposes of the criminal offence of misconduct in a public office.

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Joshua Rozenberg thinks Christopher Galley’s press conferences means charges against him or Damian Green are unlikely – I hope he’s proved right. It’s quite correct of course that CPS lawyers would need to conclude a prosecution was in the […]