Shortly after today’s hearing ended in Paul Chambers’s “case stated” appeal to the High Court in the “Twitter joke” case, I spoke to his solicitor David Allen Green – and asked him how he thought the hearing had gone.

I wrote in my last post, musing on what might happen if Julian Assange were to win his Supreme Court appeal, that

many Eurosceptics would prefer us simply to pull out of the entire system of criminal cooperation in Europe, […]

Julian Assange today takes his argument against extradition to Sweden to the UK Supreme Court. The hearing is due to finish tomorrow – it’s not clear yet when the Court is likely to publish its judgment.

There’s one question only being […]

In today’s Independent, President of the European Court of Human Rights Sir Nicolas Bratza defends the record of his court, and effectively pleads for more understanding in Britain. The European Court, he says

has been particularly respectful of decisions emanating […]

It’s not unusual nowadays for campaign groups of all kinds to take judicial review proceedings against public authorities: it’s now well established that their knowledge of and involvement in matters of public interest means they can have a sufficient interest […]

Thanks to Paul Dillane, who directed me to the document.

In his lecture last night, Lord Irvine invited British judges to become more assertive in deciding human rights cases for themselves, agreeing or disagreeing with the European Court of Human Rights, as they see fit. Today’s judgment from the […]

Lord Irvine tonight weighed in to the debate about Britain’s relationship with the European Court of Human Rights – and effectively accused the Supreme Court of having surrendered its intellectual independence, and shirked its judicial responsibility.

His at times toughly-worded lecture […]

So the Telegraph reported the week before last, based on an interview with Ken Clarke:

the Justice Secretary reveals that Britain is poised strike a deal to overhaul the controversial human rights court to stop it being used by […]

Yesterday the joint committee of the Lords and Commons on privacy and injunctions took evidence from bloggers including not only the notorious Guido Fawkes, but I’m pleased to say my old Without Prejudice colleague and leading law blogger