The other interesting judgment from the Lords in what Joshua Rozenberg thinks must have been a record output yesterday was in R (Baiai) v Home Secretary. This case is about section 19 of the Asylum […]

Today the Lords has given judgment bringing to an end the challenge by Corner House and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade to the SFO Director’s decision in December 2006 to discontinue the investigation into alleged corruption by BAe […]

Rahila Gupta in today’s Guardian writes about the victory of Southall Black Sisters in its judicial review a couple of weeks ago: Ealing Council had wanted to cut its support for the organisation in order to fund another means […]

You’ll know by now that Stuart Wheeler’s judicial review of the government’s refusal to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty has failed: here’s the judgment. This is hardly a surprise: it was always a hopeless case. The real […]

In all the excitement over 42 days and the Lisbon Treaty last week I missed the fact that the Home Secretary successfully defended a judicial review challenge from the police over their pay settlement. She did not act unlawfully […]

Apparently Fayed is not planning further legal action in his “quest for truth” about Diana. There’s a turn-up. I find it especially moving that he’s giving up for the sake of the princes.

As has been widely reported today, the government has been defeated in judicial review challenge to the changes it made in 2006 to its highly-skilled migrant programme. Here’s the judgment.

It’s a classic legitimate expectation case, about […]

EU Law Blog has an interesting post about this case, which more or less says anyone can get an administrative decision reopened and changed following a subsequent ECJ judgment that shows it’s wrong: the only limit is […]

I’m not entirely happy with Burton J’s Administrative Court judgment in Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education, in which he criticised Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth. I think the judgment is an unfortunate exercise in micromanagement of […]

Last week I missed an interesting Administrative Court judgment on an important issue: whether the then Home Secretary, Charles Clarke (gosh – doesn’t that seem a long time ago?) acted lawfully when, in April 2006, he announced in Parliament […]