I’m catching up here on a House of Lords judgment I missed a few weeks ago in October. Bancoult is the culmination of a legal saga in which Chagossians – the people cleared off the British Indian […]

Thanks to David Mery for pointing me to this video of Ms. Abbott’s award-winning speech. What a brilliant medium the web is, eh?

On Wednesday in the Court of Appeal, Mohamed Raissi successfully resisted the police’s appeal against his successful action for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment, having been arrested shortly after 9/11 together with his brother, Lotfi, and his sister […]

There’s been quite a lot of blawg talk about Paul Dacre’s speech, apart from here. I’m especially interested in Simon Myerson’s good advice to would-be barristers about avoiding judge-bashing, as disrespectful of the rule of law and ultimately […]

There are two today, both from Northern Ireland.

In Re E is about the protests and distress of little girls trying to attend the Holy Cross Church in north Belfast in 2001 in the midst of […]

I almost almost choked on my credit crunch this morning (Sainsbury’s “Basics” breakfast wheat biscuits) as I listened to quotes from Paul Dacre’s lecture to the Society of Editors Conference, in which he attacks Eady J personally for his […]

Both the Guardian and the Telegraph have reported this week that the government’s plans for a “Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” is facing a Cabinet revolt, led by Jacqui Smith. I’m not at all surprised that it’s running […]

The Commons votes today on the third reading of the Employment Bill, the main interest in which is what’s now clause 19, which amends section 174 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 in order to […]

So finally, the government has given up on its plan to extend police powers to detain terror suspects without charge to a maximum of 42 days: the Home Secretary has said she’ll drop the clauses from the Bill when […]

It seems that they’re inching in Islamabad towards restoration of the judges deposed by General Musharraf, and to the constitutional position before the emergency he declared as a means of hanging on to power. The Guardian says three supreme […]