I met the campaigner Ellie Cumbo earlier this week to discuss her Ground of Divorce and Dissolution Bill, published here yesterday. We talked about why she wants to bring […]

First Reading is a new regular feature in which I ask campaigners, writers and thinkers what law they’d change, if they could table their own “private person’s bill” in Parliament. My first guest is the campaigner and policy […]

The Criminal Bar Association’s acceptance of an invitation to speak at the government’s Global Law Summit next month is “pandering” to the Lord Chancellor’s “political opportunism”, John Cooper QC said today […]

On Without Prejudice this week, Charon QC, David Allen Green and I discuss:

• Labour’s “Leveson” bill, and what the editors have been up to in Downing Street;
• the government’s proposals on extending marriage to same-sex couples – […]

Without Prejudice returns – today from Gray’s Inn – to discuss the Leveson report and political reaction to it. Charon QC chairs as media lawyer and journalist David Allen Green, mature law student (and Without Prejudice sound consultant!) Jez Hindmarsh and I talk […]

I spoke to Charon QC earlier today, for the seventh report of his Law Tour. Unsurprisingly we spoke about Abu Qatada, the big legal story of the week and something that’s been on my mind since his […]

Last week I was invited to sit round the famous kitchen table of Legal Cheek‘s Alex Aldridge. Over about forty minutes he asked about my career, the state of legal blogging and journalism, how to start up as a […]

This afternoon I spoke to Charon QC about Ecuador’s decision to grant asylum to Julian Assange.

The interview deals with a number of myths that have attached to this case – including the idea that what he’s suspected of in […]

Yesterday I spoke to Charon QC about Lord Neuberger’s appointment as President of the Supreme Court – explaining why I welcome his appointment and why I’d have been concerned had Lady Hale been chosen – and about the House […]

Today I’ve been live-tweeting from the appeal hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in the “Twitter joke trial” case, where Paul Chambers is appealing his conviction under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 for sending a tweet of […]