I posted recently about last month’s High Court judgment in this case, in which Mr Justice Tugendhat granted an injunction to stop allegations which were not even defended as true, and which Tugendhat J thought could involve an […]

In our latest Without Prejudice podcast, Charon QC, David Allen Green and I discuss –

• the government’s draft Defamation Bill, currently subject to consultation;
• superinjunctions, so-called “hyperinjunctions” and all that, plus MPs’ use of Parliamentary privilege;
• the Supreme Court’s removal […]

I’m surprised and (obviously) delighted to have been longlisted for this year’s Orwell Prize for blogging.

You can see the full longlist here, and click through to each of the ten submitted posts by the longlisted bloggers. Here are […]

David Leigh has written in the Guardian today about a “superinjunction” granted in a libel case, preventing publication not only of allegations made about about the claimant, known as ZAM, but of his identity. He’s also tweeted about […]

Following my post last week about John Hemming MP, and the interesting exchange with him in comments over the last few days, I’m interested to see that on his own blog he’s posted videos of his speech to […]

Last week John Hemming MP secured a debate in Westminster Hall about the role of Parliament in dealing with all grievances and the importance of freedom of communication between constituents and Members. Here’s the debate in Hansard, and

The government has today published a note (hat tip to Paul Waugh) setting out a summary of the legal basis of the government’s deployment in Libya. Actually it does no more than explain that UN Resolution 1973 authorises member […]

In our second Without Prejudice law podcast, Charon QC chairs as David Allen Green, our guest Catrin Griffiths – editor of The Lawyer – and I discuss the recent ECJ ruling on sex discrimination and […]

In our first Without Prejudice podcast, Charon QC chaired as David Allen Green and I together with our guest Joanne Cash discuss the Julian Assange case, European Arrest Warrants and the Garry Mann case as well as the case […]

Here it is. It provides a first opportunity for me to use Document Cloud: you should be able to see one or two of the comments I’ve added to the text, as you read District Judge Riddle’s findings […]