Astonishing news: the Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office – a doubly vague and, to policemen, useful charge, based as it is on a conspiracy to […]

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 […]

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 […]

This case is about a civil action against the police, who shot dead an unarmed man when raiding his home to arrest him. The policeman who fired the shot was acquitted of murder and manslaughter on the judge’s direction; […]

The Court of Appeal has in effect upheld as lawful the actions of the police during the May Day demo in Oxford Circus in central London in 2001. You may remember that the police in effect trapped several thousand […]