This is the Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, explaining what he calls his “Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill”, trailed in the Queen’s Speech this week. It is, he says,

all about tackling the elf ‘n’ safety […]

How can you tell whether you’re doing something as of right, or doing it by right? Yesterday the Supreme Court gave judgment addressing that question in a case about Helredale playing field, in Whitby – […]

In front of the Commons Business committee last week, Ian Read, chairman and chief executive of Pfizer, made two points in […]

If you were given leave to do something, but then an order was made which invalidated it, and now that order itself has been revoked – is the result that you’ve automatically got leave again? Is your original leave “revived” in other […]

On April 28, Pfizer announced a possible offer to buy AstraZeneca, presumably having thought an announcement was required by rule […]

The secretary of the Lawyers’ Secular Society, solicitor Charlie Klendjian, spelled out on Monday what the protest was about:

We know the Law Society practice notes don’t change the law. We know that sharia law hasn’t […]

Where did the practice note on sharia succession rules come from, Yasmin Rehman of the Centre for Secular Space (and a fellow of the Muslim Institute) asked protesters outside the Law […]

Diana Nammi, executive director of the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation, told yesterday’s protest in Chancery Lane that she lived in Iran when its revolution was “hijacked by fundamentalists”:

As a woman, my […]