Carl Gardner
May 17, 2023
In my review of Adam Wagner’s Emergency State I talked about proportionality:
Proportionality is a key concept in human rights law, and Wagner’s approach and my […]
Carl Gardner
April 28, 2023
That video gives the impression, doesn’t it, that Rishi Sunak was going to “shred” retained EU law within a hundred days? That […]
Carl Gardner
April 27, 2023
A Supreme Court judgment recently held that a digital newspaper isn’t a newspaper. This was the case of News Corp v HMRC, in which the media giant […]
Carl Gardner
April 23, 2023
Adam Wagner has written a very interesting, highly readable and thought-provoking book about law and the pandemic, based on his professional experience in a number of important […]
Carl Gardner
April 22, 2023
I’m perhaps a few days late to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a great modern document—Dr Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, written in April 1963, but widely published […]
Carl Gardner
September 1, 2017
It’s been reported that some prosecutions under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 have collapsed recently, at Southwark and Taunton Crown Courts. The Taunton case at least was about the section 7 offence of […]
Carl Gardner
August 23, 2017
The government published its latest “future partnership paper” today on “Enforcement and dispute resolution”, and most of the attention it’s gathered—and the government’s spin—has been about its “dispute resolution” aspect. In other words, […]
Carl Gardner
January 3, 2017
The final document from the Attorney General’s 1956 Suez file (reproduced with permission of the image library of the National Archives) is a letter dated November 13th 1956 from the Attorney General, Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, to the Prime […]
Carl Gardner
January 2, 2017
From the Attorney General’s 1956 Suez file I’m today reproducing (with permission of the image library of the National Archives) a letter dated November 6 1956 to the Attorney General, Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, from the Foreign Office Legal […]
Carl Gardner
January 1, 2017
Today’s document from the Attorney General’s 1956 Suez file (reproduced with permission of the image library of the National Archives) is a letter dated November 4 1956 to the Lord Chancellor Lord Kilmuir, from Lord McNair.
