Unity at Liberal Conspiracy has an interesting suggestion about the government’s prostitution review – suggesting it’s part of Gordon Brown’s policy of securing “British jobs for British workers“. Great line; you wouldn’t actually be safe […]

In his speech at the Labour conference yesterday, Gordon Brown proposed new legislation to enshrine his government’s commitment to abolish child poverty by 2020 (or as the article puts it, he vowed to bring in

This is the week the Freedom of Information Act 2000 finally bit: politicians and the public now know it’s not simply a joke but can force previously confidential information to be released. There have been two important rulings: the

I’ve been so hugely busy, what with law lecturing, festivals of burlesque cinema, podcasting with Charon and all that, that I’ve neglected to post a report of last Thursday night’s politico-legal boozefest when Head of Legal managed somehow […]

I’m quite a fan of podcasts (I go walking in London’s parks with them) and am a great admirer of those bloggers who produce them – notably Charon QC – so I’m well chuffed to be his […]

Well, he didn’t quite say that in terms, as we lawyers say. But he did agree with the thrust of JB’s comment on my David Pannick fisk, in his interview in the Times today. […]

Jack Straw’s speech at Bournemouth the other week contained a surprise: the Labour government having rejected amendment to the law of self-defence a couple of years back, now the new Lord Chancellor says

the […]

Most discussion of the possibility of a November election assumes that the decision is solely Gordon Brown’s. But is it really that simple? I think not.

It’s the Queen who dissolves Parliament in fact, by issuing a proclamation under […]

I spent this evening at an event organised by the Human Rights Lawyers Association at which Michael Wills, Minister of State at Minijust responsible among many things for human rights policy, spoke about the Brown government’s approach to human […]

I come back from my summer holiday to find there’s been a lot of sound and fury over the last couple of days about the decision of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal that Learco Chindamo, the murderer of Philip […]