Afua Hirsch wrote in yesterday’s Guardian that the role of Attorney General is unfit for purpose and unsustainable:

In many ways the problem is as simple as this: the job description just does not work. The attorney general is tasked with […]

Today the Lords has given judgment bringing to an end the challenge by Corner House and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade to the SFO Director’s decision in December 2006 to discontinue the investigation into alleged corruption by BAe […]

An interesting take on the Corner House judgment from Joshua Rozenberg in the Telegraph: he thinks the government got into difficulties because the case happened to be dealt with by the SFO, when it […]

I’m glad Lord Goldsmith spoke up about this in an interview on Sky News yesterday. I’m not so much interested in his defence of the decision to drop the investigation, but in the point of principle he raises (in […]

Corner House and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade have succeeded in their judicial review of the SFO’s decision to discontinue its investigation into possible bribery by BAe Systems related to the Al Yamamah arms contracts with Saudi Arabia. You’ll […]

I was quite sniffy about the Campaign Against the Arms Trade’s judicial review challenge to the government’s decision to abandon its criminal investigation of BAe Systems and the Al Yamamah deal. Well, I’m not now saying I think the […]

I’m looking forward to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade’s judicial review of the decision of Attorney General, the SFO and the Prime Minister to discontinue the investigation into bribery in BAe’s Al Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia. I […]

The Attorney General, on what’s obviously been fingered as a “Jo Moore” day, has announced that he is ordering the SFO to discontinue its investigation into possible fraud in relation to BAe’s Al Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia. […]