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 […]

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 […]

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It is essential that it is made clear that Parliament, is the ultimate authority, and not the Supreme Court of the Court of Justice of the EU […]

Julian Assange’s arrest under a European arrest warrant, and the initial hearing before a district judge, has been the biggest news story in the UK today.

All this is happening under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003. Sweden […]

Bill Cash’s European Scrutiny Committee of the Commons is looking at the EU Bill, and in particular is considering very closely clause 18, William Hague’s “national sovereignty clause”, which I’ve written about before. If you’re as interested as I […]

William Hague introduced his European Union Bill in the Commons today, and it will have its second reading as early as tomorrow – a debate that will no doubt be a treat. Much of the bill makes provision to […]

Thanks to the Open Rights Group for letting me know that TalkTalk have published the joint statement of facts and grounds they filed this summer in the judicial review challenge they’re mounting, together with BT, against the Digital […]

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, […]

This is the sort of thing that sends shivers down Eurosceptic spines. A couple of weeks ago the European Commission came out with this proposed Directive on suspects’ right in criminal proceedings.

It’s not often health and safety law is big news – but it has been in Australia this month, as a result of the judgment of the High Court of Australia in the Kirk case.

Graeme Kirk was director […]