The Adminstrative Court has today dismissed a judicial review brought by the fundamentalist organisation Christian Voice. Its director Stephen Green had challenged the decision of the District Judge in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court not to issue summonses […]

Well, the Sudanese have finally done the right thing. Not before time. I think what they’ve done has been pathetic and outrageous, though. Not only did the regime allow her conviction: it also organised demonstrations of “militants” to show […]

It’s unbelievable, this, isn’t it? This woman comes to help their kids, lets them name a nice toy bear, and for that they’re going to put her through fifteen days in prison. Perhaps the bear will be flogged.

I spoke too soon, and it makes me feel like Major Gowan. If you remember, when the American accuses Fawlty Towers of being the worst hotel he’d ever been in, the Major snaps. “No! No!” he protests. “There’s a […]

The Lords have given judgment today in R (Countryside Alliance) v Attorney General. There were two appeals in fact: one by huntsmen and landowners heavily engaged in the hunting “lifestyle” so to speak, who argued that the […]

I’m just watching Louise Christian in a telly press conference explaining the basis of her client Marina Livinenko’s complaint against Russia to the European Court of Human Rights. Russia is a signatory of course; and the complaint is that […]

Thanks to Charon for spotting the Times story today reporting that both current law officers, Baroness Scotland and Vera Baird, agree with the line taken yesterday by Lord Goldsmith, and feel that the case has […]

Well, he didn’t quite say that in terms, as we lawyers say. But he did agree with the thrust of JB’s comment on my David Pannick fisk, in his interview in the Times today. […]

The judgment isn’t available online yet, but here’s a press release explaining the basis of the Musharraf ruling. If you’re interested, Wikipedia has an entry on the bogus new chief justice, Abdul Hameed Dogar.

How simply astonishing. I like the BBC euphemism “reshaped”, for “hand-picked”.