Here’s the transcript of Danny Nightingale’s Court Martial earlier this month, which was published on the Judiciary’s website. I’m grateful to John Moss for drawing it to my attention.

Since my last post on Danny Nightingale I’ve been in touch with his solicitor, Simon McKay. I asked him what he thought about the Attorney’s response to Philip Hammond, and he replied:

My view is that the AG has the ability […]

The Attorney General Dominic Grieve has been criticised for refusing to intervene in the case of Danny Nightingale, a soldier who pleaded guilty at a Court Martial recently to illegal possession of a gun and ammunition. Apparently Danny Nightingale’s […]

On Monday evening Arden LJ gave the UK Association for European Law’s annual address, at King’s College, London. You can read the speech in the window below.

She makes a number of interesting points about differences between the way different […]

I spoke to Charon QC earlier today, for the seventh report of his Law Tour. Unsurprisingly we spoke about Abu Qatada, the big legal story of the week and something that’s been on my mind since his […]

Abu Qatada has won his appeal against the Home Secretary Theresa May’s refusal to revoke the fresh deportation order she issued in his case this April, following assurances she’d received from the Jordanian government about his retrial, if and […]

Earlier I posted Clive Stafford Smith’s response to my piece yesterday about what I called “Reprieve’s dodgy press release”. I said I’d set out my own comments on his response in a separate post – and here they are.

First, […]

Following my post yesterday which was critical of Reprieve’s press release about the recent Rahmatullah case in the Supreme Court, Reprieve’s Director Clive Stafford Smith has contacted me to respond.

I’ll set out my own comments on his response […]

Last week I was invited to sit round the famous kitchen table of Legal Cheek‘s Alex Aldridge. Over about forty minutes he asked about my career, the state of legal blogging and journalism, how to start up as a […]

Last Wednesday the Supreme Court gave judgment in this case in which Yunus Rahmatullah, who’s being held by American forces in Afghanistan, applied for habeas corpus against the British government. Rosalind English wrote a helpful summary of the judgment […]