I’m delighted to say that LawMinx has awarded me one of her “blawggies” for being even better than Melvyn Bragg, which is very nice indeed. I have to thank Blogger (even though I’m going to desert them […]

Lord Lester, writing in the Guardian today, explains why he resigned as the government’s independent adviser on constitutional change. I have some sympathy for Lord Lester – he had the experience (that many civil servants have had) of finding […]

The Court of Appeal has given judgment today in SRM Global Master Fund v HM Treasury – the human rights challenge by Northern Rock shareholders to the government’s compensation scheme on nationalisation.

The complaint was based […]

I’m encouraging readers to vote for their fave political blogs in TotalPolitics magazine’s poll – there’s a button on the right to make it even easier. You have to name ten blogs in order of preference, so it needs […]

Last month, when talking about the big Californian case about Proposition 8, I mentioned the unexploded bomb created by articles 2, 3 and 4 of Directive 2004/38 on the free movement rights of EU citizens and their families: they […]

Charon interviewed me today: we spoke about the Supreme Court, its origins and what we expect from it, and whether the superficial change from House of Lords to Supreme Court will bring with it more significant changes, such as […]

I seriously dislike the word governance. Okay, it has some reasonable uses: in the phrase corporate governance, for instance, in which it has a useful sense of oversight from on high. Otherwise, it’s unbearably pompous. I […]

I often agree with John Bolch about sharia law; always, in fact. So it’s no surprise I should agree with his post yesterday about the claim made by an Islamic “scholar” that sharia law doesn’t discriminate against women. The […]

A couple of years ago, it was all the rage to worry about the role of the Attorney General, and the government even consulted on the possibility of publishing the Law Officers’ advice. You can see the results of the […]

The Culture, Media and Sport committee, inquiring into allegations about the News of the World’s hacking into people’s voicemail, is hearing evidence from its editor today; proceedings have been livened up somewhat by News International’s lawyer’s objection to […]