He’s done it again, then. It was obviously Chief Justice Roberts’s fault; he was the only who put the adverb faithfully at the end of the second clause, rather than at the beginning, as it […]

Here we go again. It only seems ten minutes since I was exasperated by the Damian Green affair, specifically the way MPs, media and blogs all focused quite wrongly on the extremely lawful and proper search of Damian Green’s Westminster […]

This libel judgment from the High Court last week caught my eye: Eady J has struck out a libel claim about a blog comment under the Jameel jurisdiction to protect the court from abuse of process […]

It’s going to be… Dominic Grieve. Still. In addition to his post as shadow Justice secretary.

As I’ve commented at Iain Dale’s Diary, I suppose it makes sense in a way for Justice and the shadow Attorney’s […]

I know surprisingly little about John Mortimer, and can’t claim to have any special interest in him: I never read any of his books, and his apparently champagny socialism put me off him quite a bit, especially in the 1980s, […]

Something I’ve not yet commented on since my part facultative-festive and part enforced-technological break is the welcome restoration of sense and good legal analysis to the field of religious discrimination by the Employment Appeal Tribunal, which has reversed

There may have been a Tory reshuffle, but I still don’t know who the shadow Attorney is going to be. Lord Trimble has been suggested; Ken Clarke would be enormous fun if allowed to double up, though I expect […]

While I was away the redoubtable Charon QC posted an immense Don Quixote of a Blawg Review, a true monster full of digested tasties. How he does it, I don’t know and nor does anyone including I […]

I’m a few days late in reacting to the new DPP Keir Starmer’s statement that he’s not opposed to televising criminal trials, subject to safeguards. I back him wholeheartedly; this has been exactly my view for years.

I have a serious computer issue, which is taking time to sort – hence no normal service! Bear with me…