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 […]

One of the dubious benefits of having a BLOODY cold is that you sit, Lemsip in hand and with thtuffed-up node, mindlessly watching the entire Commons debate on the Banking (Special Provisions) Bill on a Tuesday night, being momentarily […]

One of the things I omitted to comment on in my September slackness was Mervyn King’s explanation to the Commons Treasury Select Committee of why he couldn’t organise a secret takeover of Northern Rock bank, or give it covert support.