This is another of the judgments the Lords gave on super-Wednesday at the end of July, and is worth a look because of the way their Lordships deal with the question of religious discrimination. It’s another stark contrast […]

It sounds like good news on the face of it, that Pakistan’s governing parties are considering starting impeachment proceedings in Parliament against President Musharraf. I’m not against it. But much more important is the issue of reinstating judges sacked […]

The other interesting judgment from the Lords in what Joshua Rozenberg thinks must have been a record output yesterday was in R (Baiai) v Home Secretary. This case is about section 19 of the Asylum […]

Charon interviewed me this morning about the Max Mosley case. We spoke about the development from old-style breach of confidence to what’s effectively a British privacy law, with the new extended right of action for breach of privacy, and […]

Eady J was keen to point out that, strictly speaking, his judgment in Max Mosley’s case does not involve any radical development of the law:

It’s available now thanks to the lovely BAILII. I’ve not read it yet: but I’ll post about it later today when I’ve had a chance to. From what the judge appears to have said it looks as though […]

The other court case that has attracted massive interest this week has of course been that of Lillian Ladele, who, an Employment Tribunal has found, was both directly and indirectly discriminated against on grounds of her religion, and was […]

Last month you may remember I wrote about the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s threat to go to court claiming the Counter-Terrorism Bill is incompatible with Convention rights, and mentioned that Jacqui Smith had written to CEHR boss Trevor Phillips […]

This weekend Charon interviewed John Hirst of Prison Law Inside Out about his experience of life in prison, his thoughts on the penal system and about his victory a couple of years ago in the European Court of Human […]

There’s an eccentric side to Lord Phillips: I remember his speech to new bar students in 1992 in which he advocated our criminal justice system should adopt aspects of the French “investigative” approach to finding truth. Then there was his […]