Today the Times is running a (£) story headlined:

Cameron is cleared to defy Europe on human rights

The story is based on an eight-page memo prepared for Nick Clegg that Sam Coates has published on Twitter:

It’s not clear […]

Today I talked to Charon QC on the issue of prisoners’ votes, following MPs vote yesterday in favour of defying the European Court of Human Rights, and retaining the UK’s current “blanket ban”. We explain what the ECtHR is […]

MPs in the Commons will today debate the motion put down by David Davis, Jack Straw and others (main business, over half way down the order paper), which is in these terms:

That this House notes the ruling of the […]

I never thought we needed a Supreme Court, myself. The Law Lords worked perfectly well as far as I was concerned. But we got one, the main justification for the increased expense being increased judicial independence. To me, this supposed […]

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled today that an Italian prisoner’s rights were breached where he was sentenced to prison for life, and as a result lost the right to vote indefinitely. The ECtHR’s ruling in Scoppola […]

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. […]

It’s taken me a week to respond to Ken Clarke’s statement last Monday about legal aid, so unsurprisingly, quite a few people have got there before me. Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian is opposed “root and branch”.

You may know from the news that the Administrative Court has ruled unlawful Eric Pickles’s revocation of regional strategies in England. He’ll have to wait until his Localism Bill comes into force in order to abolish them.

Sales J’s […]

I spoke to Charon QC earlier about the issue of prisoners’ voting, following Joshua Rozenberg’s recent Guardian Law piece on the subject and the guest post on his blog by John Hirst. We give a bit of […]

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 […]