The Metropolitan Police’s written grounds of defence in the Miranda judicial review case, published on this blog today, contain a number of significant claims about how they, in liaison with the Security Service, came to stop and question […]

Here’s the Metropolitan Police’s grounds – drafted by Jason Beer QC of 5 Essex Court and Ben Brandon  and Ben Watson, both of 3 Raymond Buildings – for resisting David Miranda’s judicial review claim in the Administrative Court this […]

Here’s the Home Secretary’s statement of grounds – drafted by Steven Kovats QC of 39 Essex Street and Julian Blake of 6, King’s Bench Walk – for opposing David Miranda’s judicial review claim, to be heard over two […]

Here’s the full statement of facts and grounds – drafted by Matthew Ryder QC, Edward Craven and Raj Desai, all of Matrix Chambers – in support of David Miranda’s judicial review claim, due to be heard […]

At today’s hearing, it was clear that PressBoF and its lawyers would be considering, over lunch, the possibility of asking the Court of Appeal this afternoon for permission to appeal against today’s refusal by the Administrative Court of permission for […]

Having arrived in good time I was disappointed to find that the walls of Court 27 seem to be impenetrable to mobile phone signals. This meant that, while a fascinating case was unfolding before me, I could not live-tweet it […]

I wish I could have been there for this hearing today. But I had to choose between this and the PressBoF hearing, listed for the same time. Fortunately, Alex Pritchard-Jones could be there, and he followed the hearing for […]

I was in court 68 at the Royal Courts of Justice this morning to hear the Press Standards Board of Finance’s urgent application for interim relief – an injunction – to stop the government from getting the cross-party press regulation […]

As I said in my last post, the Press Board of Finance’s grounds for judicial review make clear that it is seeking an injunction – “interim relief” – to stop the government getting its preferred cross-party Royal Charter granted […]