Following my post on the “legal bits” of the Labour manifesto, here’s my analysis of the most important Conservative proposals of particular legal interest. I warn you: this is a long one, and needs sub-headings.

Constitutional law

On the constitution, the Tories […]

I was interested in a debate yesterday kicked off by Jessica Asato, writing at Left Foot Forward about the way Conservative opposition led to the government’s dropping provisions in the Children, Schools and Families Bill about personal, social […]

The Supreme Court has given judgment today in this case about the admissions policy of JFS school, a state secondary school that has been educating Jewish children in London since 1732. M’s father, E wanted M to go to the […]

Liverpool City council has claimed that the population of the city has now stabilised after decades of decline – but this case last week shows the effects of that decline still cause problems, as the Council had to decide […]

Harrow Council has abandoned its prosecution of Mrinal Patel today. No surprise there, then. I expressed myself in moderate terms while criminal proceedings were under way, but summonsing her under the Fraud Act 2006 always looked dodgy – […]

You may remember that last week Mrs. Patel appeared at Harrow Magistrates’ Court; she’s being prosecuted by Harrow Council under section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006, the accusation being that she gave a false address in order […]

Like many people my instinctive reaction is to be dismayed at the news that the head teacher of a primary school in Sheffield has resigned after her proposal to end separate Muslim assemblies brought accusations of racism. The […]

Munby J gave judgment last Thursday in the Administrative Court in a fascinating case about whether the admissions policy of the Jewish Free School is lawful – the complaint coming from the parents of a boy who was refused […]

I’m interested in the fact that Poole Borough Council put the Paton family under surveillance because they thought they might have fraudulently applied for a school place for their daughter. I’m also interested in Liberty’s response.

I feel […]

I’m not entirely happy with Burton J’s Administrative Court judgment in Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education, in which he criticised Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth. I think the judgment is an unfortunate exercise in micromanagement of […]