The British government was at it again yesterday, I’m sorry to say: the DPP was insisting that Russia ought to extradite Andrei Lugovoi for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. I’m sorry to say I’m forced to agree with

The new Attorney is not, unfortunately, Lord Head of Legal, but is indeed Baroness Scotland, as predicted here (well, sort of). The civil servants or web http://www.gooakley.com/ contractors at Patsy’s new den haven’t yet updated […]

Interesting to see that Joshua Rozenberg in today’s Telegraph takes the same view as Head of Legal about the next Attorney General. It’s probably either Baroness Scotland or Lord Grabiner. Mind you, given Gordon Brown’s wooing of possibly […]

I take my hat off to Alan Johnson: he’s managed to achieve a public profile far ahead of his Labour deputy leadership rivals this week with his brutal condemnation of Margaret Hodges remarks on housing, and now with his suggestion […]

Various newspapers have been reporting that the next Attorney General may be Lord Grabiner, a well-known commercial silk, and Labour peer since 1999. For some time I had suspected Baroness Scotland was the obvious

It’s the first day of the existence of the new Ministry of Justice. I’ve nothing against this, really; it seems to me reasonable enough to organise government in this way. But there are a couple of grumpy things I […]

In today’s Times, David Pannick argues for major reform of the Attorney General’s role, along the lines argued by various people including even ministers in recent weeks. He argues that Lord Goldsmith’s recent endorsement of the […]

The Attorney General has been defending his role in front of the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee this afternoon – I expect him to do so aggressively and firmly. And in the main, I’ll agree with him.

Some people have […]