A regular reader has let me know she’s “shocked” by my reactionary turn this last week. I suspect she may be easily shocked but I’ll risk sending her over the edge by linking to last week’s

You may be as surprised as I am that Judge Uchena has ruled against the MDC in its attempt to force the Election Commission to release the results of the recent “election”.

Again the MDC is planning to go to court to challenge the decision of the Zimbabwe Election Commission – which clearly acts on the instructions of Mugabe and Zanu-PF – to order a recount in some constituencies. Nothing could […]

I’m interested in the fact that Poole Borough Council put the Paton family under surveillance because they thought they might have fraudulently applied for a school place for their daughter. I’m also interested in Liberty’s response.

I feel […]

I can’t link to the judgment yet; it’s not available. But the news is that Collins J has ruled that British troops in battle may enjoy the article 2 right to life, and that sending them into combat with […]

Gosh, what a legal week this has been! In all the flurry, I’ve not yet posted the judgment in which Eady J refused Max Mosley an injunction against the News of the World. Paragraph 4 of the […]

As was widely reported yesterday, Abu Qatada succeeded in his appeal against deportation yesterday. Here’s the judgment (he’s also known as Omar Othman). The Court of Appeal has reversed the ruling of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission as […]

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 […]

The drawn-out farce of the Zimbabwean “elections” has now taken a mad legal turn, with the MDC going to law to force the election commission to release the results, but being prevented from entering the court by Mugabe’s police. […]

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has decided to hear an application by a prosecutor to have Prime Minister Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party ruled unconstitutional on the basis that its threatens Turkey’s secular principles.

We’ve been here before: in […]