Carl Gardner
July 1, 2011
In the latest Without Prejudice podcast, Charon QC, Timothy Pitt-Payne QC, Amanda Bancroft of Beneath The Wig and I discuss
- Lady Hale’s comments on legal aid
- the law on checking out potential employees
- the Milly Dowler murder […]
Carl Gardner
May 27, 2011
In this week’s Without Prejudice podcast, Financial Times General Counsel Tim Bratton joins Charon QC, David Allen Green and me to talk about:
- contempt of court in the week Twitter typed two fingeredly to the courts
- privacy law, […]
Carl Gardner
December 14, 2010
Charon QC talked to me yesterday as a follow-up to his interview with Mark Stephens last Friday – by some way the most interesting interview I’ve heard Mark Stephens give since Julian Assange’s arrest last week. Charon and […]
Carl Gardner
December 10, 2010
CharonQC managed to secure an interview today with Mark Stephens – no doubt a very busy solicitor at the moment, given the arrest and detention of his client Julian Assange on a European arrest warrant from Sweden.
Mark Stephens tells […]
Carl Gardner
October 27, 2010
I spoke to Charon QC earlier about the issue of prisoners’ voting, following Joshua Rozenberg’s recent Guardian Law piece on the subject and the guest post on his blog by John Hirst. We give a bit of […]
Carl Gardner
October 8, 2010
I know I’ve been away a few weeks – we all need a blog break occasionally – but I’m back with a bang, with a piece at the Guardian Law website yesterday on William Hague’s proposed “national sovereignty” clause, […]
Carl Gardner
May 16, 2010
Charon QC interviewed me on Friday about the new Conservative-Liberal coalition government and its special points of legal interest. We begin with the heated debate about the “55%” rule, under which the coalition proposes this should be a fixed-term Parliament, […]
Carl Gardner
April 16, 2010
Charon QC interviewed me this afternoon as part of his “20 minutes” series of podcasts. First we spoke about arresting the Pope following my post earlier today. The we moved on briefly to discuss the former UKIP MEP Ashley […]
Carl Gardner
February 24, 2010
I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to comment on the Court of Appeal’s judgment in R(Mohamed) v Foreign Secretary. People usually claim to hate saying they told you so. I love saying it if I’m honest, but only […]
Carl Gardner
July 31, 2009
Earlier this week Charon interviewed Lord Falconer about his attempt to amend the law to legalise assisted suicide in some cases – they also discussed the new Supreme Court. It’s a good listen, timed perfectly for this week with […]