You may remember I took a break in September for a couple of weeks to go to the Arctic as part of the Nowhereisland arts project. I was one of the expedition team who voyaged round Svalbard […]

Apologies for going on about football. I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about the suggestion that today’s ECJ ruling leaves room for the FA Premier League to use copyright law to continue preventing pubs from using foreign decoders […]

Since my previous post, I’ve read one or two suggestions on the web and Twitter that Karen Murphy didn’t actually win against the Premier League, because its copyright in its anthem etc. means she can’t show NOVA matches anyway.

Today the Grand Chamber of the ECJ gave its preliminary ruling in two joined cases, FA Premier League v QC Leisure and others and Murphy v Media Protection Services. The ruling isn’t on BAILII yet; but it is available […]

This week’s Without Prejudice is a criminal law special. Francis Fitzgibbon QC of Doughty Street Chambers and Amanda (“Milly”) Bancroft join Charon QC, David Allen Green and me to discuss:

• riots sentencing and appeals
• contempt of court, […]

A few weeks ago Adam Wagner at the UK Human Rights Blog told us the ECHR had changed the stance it took in July on a series of religious discrimination claims currently being pursued in the European Court […]

I’m away in the Arctic for a couple of weeks, without internet access – so will be taking a break as Head of Legal.

I’m not completely taking a break from things legal, though. I’m going as part of the

Yesterday I wrote about the legal advice that, according to the Telegraph and the Standard, the PM’s Director of Strategy Steve Hilton obtained from Martin Howe QC. According to the Telegraph:

The Prime Minister’s office secretly commissioned its own […]

The Telegraph, reporting today on tension between 10 Downing Street and the Department for Business over implementing the Agency Workers Directive, tells us

Downing Street has been told by lawyers that the Business Secretary’s department has “gold-plated” the […]

Guido Fawkes today drew attention to two responses by Conservative MPs to the legal opinion published by 38 Degrees about the Health and Social Care Bill – one by Stephen Phillips, and another by Guy Opperman.

But the […]