As has been widely reported, sections 1 to 12 of the Health Act 2006 came into force this morning, in effect introducing a ban on smoking in enclosed public places – including pubs, bars, caffs and restaurants as well […]

The House of Lords gave an important judgment yesterday, in YL v Birmingham City Council, on the scope of the Human Rights Act: it ruled by a 3-2 majority that a care home which provides care and accommodation to […]

The House of Lords judgment in the Al-Skeini case today means the Human Rights Act will apply to what UK public authorities, such as the Army, do beyond these shores in areas of effective British control – like for […]

I’ve just heard a report on BBC News 24 about Southampton Employment Tribunal’s compensatory award of £18,000 for unfair dismissal to Terri King. Ms. King was sacked by her employer, Lymington Citizen’s Advice Bureau, for breaching their client confidentiality policy. […]

It seems one thing Segolene Royal has in common with her partner Francois Hollande is an intention to sue over claims http://www.raybani.com/ made in a book about her, La Femme Fatale, written by two journalists with Le […]

You may be as pleased and relieved as I am to know that the editor of Charlie Hebdo was finally acquitted by the Paris Tribunal Correctionnel of the criminal charges brought against him by Islamic Organisations.

Unfortunately I […]

The BBC report that Mr. Justice Silber has turned down a judicial review application by a girl who wanted to wear the niqab, or veil, to school in Buckinghamshire.

This was an attempt to get a different result […]

Journal d’un Avocat sees a ruling of the Cour de Cassation as a rap on the knuckles for the French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy – who I think you know by now, is standing for President of

Today Le Monde reports that the Cour d’Appel in Amiens in northern France has ruled that a child can be adopted by the lesbian civil partner of his birth mother. The two women have been in a

The tribunal will consider its verdict on the 15 March, according to Journal d’un Avocat. I’m glad to see that the avocat général has called for an acquittal.