This sums it up quite well.

It’s brilliant to see that lawyers are leading the protests against what Dawn newspaper has called Musharraf’s “second coup” in Pakistan. The confrontation began (as this BBC story explains) earlier this year when Musharraf […]

In the E case their Lordships had no difficulty in agreeing that a curfew of 12 hours a day, combined with noticeably less restrictive conditions than in the JJ case (E lives with his wife […]

My lengthy post on the JJ case explained how the Home Secretary has now been limited to imposing curfews of 16 hours (or less) under her control order regime; I thought I’d better post again though, on the […]

On Wednesday the Lords gave their judgment in the appeals of JJ and others, MB and AF, and E, against the making of control orders against them under the Prevention […]

The Court of Appeal has in effect upheld as lawful the actions of the police during the May Day demo in Oxford Circus in central London in 2001. You may remember that the police in effect trapped several thousand […]

I spent this evening at an event organised by the Human Rights Lawyers Association at which Michael Wills, Minister of State at Minijust responsible among many things for human rights policy, spoke about the Brown government’s approach to human […]

I’m afraid the police are simply making fools of themselves by seizing a photograph by Nan Goldin from the Baltic Centre in Gateshead. This reminds me of a similar story from 2001, when a photgraph by Tierney Gearon was […]

I come back from my summer holiday to find there’s been a lot of sound and fury over the last couple of days about the decision of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal that Learco Chindamo, the murderer of Philip […]

The European Court of Human Rights’s ruling last Friday in the cases of O’Halloran and Francis means the police, when they http://www.gooakley.com/ suspect a driving offence has been committed, can continue to compel the registered keepers of […]