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  • Lady Justice Arden on proportionality

    Carl Gardner
    November 15, 2012

    On Monday evening Arden LJ gave the UK Association for European Law’s annual address, at King’s College, London. You can read the speech in the window below.

    She makes a number of interesting points about differences between the way different […]

    Tags: judges, public law
  • The Department of Health’s legal response to 38 Degrees

    Carl Gardner
    September 6, 2011

    Guido Fawkes today drew attention to two responses by Conservative MPs to the legal opinion published by 38 Degrees about the Health and Social Care Bill – one by Stephen Phillips, and another by Guy Opperman.

    But the […]

    Tags: government, health, legislation, parliament, public law
  • Lords judgment: Kay v Metropolitan Police

    Carl Gardner
    November 27, 2008

    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 […]

    Tags: environment, house of lords, human rights, judicial review, police, public law
  • Location, relocation, reasonableness

    Carl Gardner
    December 10, 2007

    A report on an interesting housing case in the Court of Appeal, from Nearly Legal. Essentially the result is that, when deciding http://www.gooakley.com/ whether you’re homeless and in need of being housed, a local authority can’t just […]

    Tags: housing, public law
  • Goldsmith defends his role

    Carl Gardner
    February 7, 2007

    The Attorney General has been defending his role in front of the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee this afternoon – I expect him to do so aggressively and firmly. And in the main, I’ll agree with him.

    Some people have […]

    Tags: government, public law
  • Lance Corporal Hull’s inquest: the video

    Carl Gardner
    February 7, 2007

    So, The Sun has published the video from the cockpit of the plane that killed LCol Hull. It’ll be interesting to see whether the MoD will now accept that this video is accurate, or whether they’ll distance […]

    Tags: evidence, public law
  • AEG blows its stake on Supercasino

    Carl Gardner
    January 30, 2007

    Oh, well: not Blackpool, not the Dome, but Manchester will be the site of the first “supercasino” under the notorious Gambling Act 2005
    . In fact the correct legal term is “regional casino” – see section 7(5) – a […]

    Tags: public law
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