In our first Without Prejudice podcast, Charon QC chaired as David Allen Green and I together with our guest Joanne Cash discuss the Julian Assange case, European Arrest Warrants and the Garry Mann case as well as the case […]

Here it is. It provides a first opportunity for me to use Document Cloud: you should be able to see one or two of the comments I’ve added to the text, as you read District Judge Riddle’s findings […]

District Judge Riddle has just ordered Julian Assange’s extradition to Sweden, according to reporters’ tweets from court, and Sky News. I’ve not yet had sight of the ruling itself yet of course.

So where does he go from here? To be […]

Earlier I showed you the draft skeleton argument the defence had prepared in January in advance of the extradition hearing today. Now the defence has made available its final skeleton argument (thanks, BBC). Here it is:

Sunny Hundal has published an important piece at Liberal Conspiracy today – one that Benjamin Gray has contributed to, as have I, a bit – arising from Ben Goldacre’s frustration that the mainstream media didn’t seem to […]

Vince Cable has not resigned over his reported remark that he’d “declared war on Rupert Murdoch” – but the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will make any further decision on the proposed News Corporation takeover of BSkyB instead of him. […]

As I write, Julian Assange may still be in custody, while the necessary processing work is done by the people who’ve stood surety for him, according to media reports. You’ll see that under section 8(4) and (5) […]

The CPS has phoned me to confirm it took the decision to appeal bail yesterday in Julian Assange’s case – without consulting the Swedish prosecutor. The CPS spokesman stressed to me that this is usual practice in extradition cases. The […]

Our own CPS is the answer, I think.

Here’s a report from a Swedish media source quoting Karin Rosander, spokeswoman for the Swedish prosecuting authority, as saying the decision to appeal was the CPS’s alone, not theirs. It quotes her […]

Komla Dumor interviewed me on The World Today this morning about the Julian Assange case. It begins at 9:20.

In case you’re wondering, I wasn’t really “legal adviser to Tony Blair”, which makes me sound as though I used to […]