Overnight in Australia,

The former Attorney General Dominic Grieve appeared on Radio 4’s World at One Today to discuss the government’s new plan to “regulate” the return to the UK of those who, for instance, have gone to Syria […]

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Only a matter of weeks ago, politicians were seriously discussing the possibility that the UK might need to withdraw from the […]

I spoke to Charon QC earlier today, for the seventh report of his Law Tour. Unsurprisingly we spoke about Abu Qatada, the big legal story of the week and something that’s been on my mind since his […]

Following my post on the “legal bits” of the Labour manifesto, here’s my analysis of the most important Conservative proposals of particular legal interest. I warn you: this is a long one, and needs sub-headings.

Constitutional law

On the constitution, the Tories […]

Having written about asylum detention yesterday, an interesting Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment caught my eye today. Father Seraphim Vänttinen-Newton, a Russian Orthodox priest, has won his appeal for unfair dismissal against GEO Group, the private firm that runs Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre (or "removal centre", as the UK Borders Agency website calls it).

It's frustrating and dispiriting to read the judgment in R (Rostami) v Home Secretary. And I think difficult to work out what you think about the problem of asylum detention generally.

I’m speaking on a course this morning, so don’t have time to properly comment on yesterday’s judgment by Blake J. in favour of retired Gurkha servicemen wanting to settle in the UK. I thought you’d want to see […]

Gary Glitter is I expect on his way back to Britain having served time for child sex offences in Vietnam. Some commenters at the Sun’s website have expressed the view that disgraced Glitter, as he’s now known, shouldn’t […]

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 […]