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 […]

I’ve written a piece for the Guardian Law website today, about yesterday’s launch, by the new Institute of Family Law Arbitrators, of a scheme of binding family law arbitration. The scheme itself doesn’t worry me: I’m sure the IFLA’s […]

On Monday the Guardian published this piece about Sadakat Kadri‘s claim that

Islamic law can be compatible with the toughest human rights legislation.

I doubt this very much; and I don’t think my or anyone else’s scepticism is the result […]

In case you’re interested, here’s the order, made under section 3(6) of the Terrorism Act 2000, by means of which Alan Johnson has banned “Islam4UK” under several alternative names. The Order was made on Monday, which suggests it was […]

I often agree with John Bolch about sharia law; always, in fact. So it’s no surprise I should agree with his post yesterday about the claim made by an Islamic “scholar” that sharia law doesn’t discriminate against women. The […]

Here’s another good one from the learned Mufti. In answer to the question “what can the wife do if the husband refuses to divorce her?” he says:

The above verses are just some of the examples […]

As Lord Phillips helpfully pointed out in his lecture last night, in which he defended the Rowan Williams line, sharia is a set of principles ultimately based on the Koran. Good to know, eh?

But did you know that, […]

There’s an eccentric side to Lord Phillips: I remember his speech to new bar students in 1992 in which he advocated our criminal justice system should adopt aspects of the French “investigative” approach to finding truth. Then there was his […]

I just knew there was going to be a pro-Williams backlash today. To be fair to the people who’ve stepped up to the plate, they’re brave in taking an unpopular stance. But I’m so, soooo in disagreement with them that […]

Unbelievably, More 4 news tonight, leading on the Williams/sharia story, has a “debate” between a pro-Williams Muslim lawyer, who backs Williams; and the extreme Islamist Anjem Choudhury, who opposed Williams on the basis that his proposal would not […]