Today’s was a much shorter hearing than last week’s. I was expecting full argument about whether the short-term interim injunction granted last week should be continued until the hearing of the full judicial review, probably in October, and if so […]

This hearing was the resumption of the adjourned hearing from the previous week, and was expected to involve fuller argument on what if any interim injunction should apply pending the hearing of the full judicial review.

In some ways this week, with the recall of Parliament and the UK’s tabling a UN resolution, seems like a fast replay of the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Many people’s attitudes to what’s happening are […]

You can never look too closely at legislation.

In the High Court today, before the judgment was handed down, it became clear from the discussions taking place between the lawyers on either side that the Metropolitan Police were not intending to […]

The corrected form of today’s judgment has now been published on the judiciary’s website, and is available at BAILII. Here it is.

Here’s the uncorrected draft that was handed down to the press and public today. Please note this is subject to editorial corrections – Beatson LJ made clear some stylistic changes would be made, and some repetitions removed, before […]

Today’s hearing at the High Court before Lord Justice Beatson and Mr Justice Kenneth Parker was interesting, and not just because of the order they made. But let me turn to that order first.

The court has ordered that until a […]

After today’s hearing, David Miranda’s solicitor, Gwendolen Morgan of Bindmans solicitors, gave a brief statement to the media. Apologies for the quality of the sound.

Alan Rusbridger revealed in a piece first published on the Guardian website at half past ten on Monday evening how GCHQ security experts […]

There’s understandably been a great deal of reaction to the nine-hour detention at Heathrow airport of David Miranda, who was travelling as part of his work with Guardian journalists covering Edward Snowden’s disclosures, and whose laptop and memory stick […]