Before my post yesterday, Nearly Legal wrote extensive comments on the case – I recommend a visit for anyone interested in the case. Nearly Legal has also commented here at Head of Legal.

I think the amendment […]

Jut over a year ago, the Lords settled the debate about whether care homes carry out functions of a public nature, and so are public authorities subject the the Human Rights Act; it decided, in YL v […]

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 […]

Why on earth is anyone waiting anxiously for the result of the run-off “election” in Zimbabwe? If people there are brave enough to dare to vote for the MDC (and resourceful enough to get round all the barriers Mugabe will […]

I’m sorry to say the new Pakistani government has been dragging its feet about restoring the judges deposed by General Musharraf last November – but I’m glad to say the lawyers’ movement is keeping up the pressure with a big […]

I’ve not posted yet on this important case from the US Supreme Court: I’m sorry, there’s just been too much fun happening in the British Isles this week. But I mustn’t keep you from the judgment itself; here’s a […]

The shadow Home Secretary David Davis has astonishingly announced he will resign his seat in East Yorkshire and force a by-election on the single issue of liberty: he sees it as a personal campaign to stop the government’s erosion of […]

But only by a scrape. Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith won their commons vote on the reserve power to extend terror suspects’ detention up to 42 days. They got the votes of a few vital Labour backbenchers and of the […]

I’ve had the debate on in the background this afternoon (while marking a never-ending pile of exam papers on free movement of goods and persons) – and it’s not been a bad one. Bill Cash has obsessively been intervening to […]