Following on from my Charon podcast yesterday, I thought it might help to put my thoughts in writing about last Friday’s judgment. It might be farcical, except that it relates to the cruel treatment and possibly torture of a prisoner. […]

I spoke to Charon QC this afternoon about last Friday’s judgment in R (Mohamed) v Foreign Secretary, in which the Administrative Court ruled that it should make public in its original judgment 7 paragraphs, consisting of 25 […]

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom opens officially today – and with it, a new chapter in this country’s legal history. The Guardian has a leader about it today, and the opening is likely to be covered widely […]

Liverpool City council has claimed that the population of the city has now stabilised after decades of decline – but this case last week shows the effects of that decline still cause problems, as the Council had to decide […]

The Court of Appeal has given judgment today in SRM Global Master Fund v HM Treasury – the human rights challenge by Northern Rock shareholders to the government’s compensation scheme on nationalisation.

The complaint was based […]

Both the Telegraph and the Daily Mail reported earlier this week about an evangelical Christian who’s been taken off the fostering register by her local authority after a sixteen-year-old girl, brought up as a Muslim, converted to Christianity […]

It was a jolly good week in court last week for Basildon Council. First, they won against the Equality and Human Rights Commission in this case about travellers in the Court of Appeal; then they followed it up with […]

The other Lords judgment yesterday came in this interesting case about section 11 of the Public Order Act 1986, and whether Critical Mass is a procession requiring to be notified to the police, or is exempt under […]

I’m interested in this quite worrying judicial review case decided on Tuesday – worrying in that it shows how the criminal records system can easily be abused to undermine the presumption of innocence, though I suppose reassuring in that […]

I’m catching up here on a House of Lords judgment I missed a few weeks ago in October. Bancoult is the culmination of a legal saga in which Chagossians – the people cleared off the British Indian […]