Oh no! She’s going! Not quite yet, but the French justice minister Rachida Dati will leave Nicolas Sarkozy’s government in a matter of weeks in order to run in the European elections. She’s being reshuffled out, basically. Shame. She […]

A hot week for legal news from France. First, if you remember the controversy over the annulment of the marriage of a couple from Lille – on the grounds that the wife had lied about being a virgin – […]

The other French story concerns Sarko’s legal axewoman Rachida Dati, the very sexy but somewhat dangerous minister of justice. She’s got herself into trouble by initially defending the judgment of a court in Lille, which granted annulment of a […]