The European Commission has announced that it’s submitting to the EP and Council a proposal for a Directive on environmental crime. This is its reaction to the European Court of Justice’s ruling in the

The tribunal will consider its verdict on the 15 March, according to Journal d’un Avocat. I’m glad to see that the avocat général has called for an acquittal.

The French satirical magazine Charlie-Hebdo is, I read today in Le Monde, on trial in the Tribunal Correctionel in Paris (which is like an informal version of our Crown Court; or else a turbo-charged Magistrates’ Court, whichever […]

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 […]

And Tom Stephens has been released on bail. Well, then, assuming Tom Stephens isn’t charged, there’s no harm done from all that risky coverage I was concerned about in earlier http://www.gooakley.com/ posts. No harm to the doing of […]

For 17 hours, so Le Monde says. Astonishing. I know the French police have a somewhat tougher approach than their counterparts this side of the channel, but nothing illustrates it better than the difference between their treatment of their […]

The Austrian authorities now say they will deport David Irving “schnellstmöglichst”, which means very, very, very quickly indeed. It may not be quite as a quick as that, but I dare say he’ll be here well before Christmas. […]

The Austrian authorities now say they will deport David Irving “schnellstmöglichst”, which means very, very, very quickly indeed. It may not be quite as a quick as that, but I dare say he’ll be here well before Christmas. […]

Given my attitude to David Irving, his conviction and sentence in Austria and his questionable release, as shown in my earlier posts, I thought I’d better explain my position since many people who are far from supportive of holocaust denial […]

ORF is now reporting (in German) that Gerhard Jarosch of the Vienna State Prosecutor’s Office doesn’t think the evidence for the March 2006 offences justifies Irving’s pre-trial detention – so there’ll be no application for his arrest. I guess […]