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 […]

I know I’ve been away a few weeks – we all need a blog break occasionally – but I’m back with a bang, with a piece at the Guardian Law website yesterday on William Hague’s proposed “national sovereignty” clause, […]

Charon QC interviewed me on Friday about the new Conservative-Liberal coalition government and its special points of legal interest. We begin with the heated debate about the “55%” rule, under which the coalition proposes this should be a fixed-term Parliament, […]

Charon QC interviewed me this afternoon as part of his “20 minutes” series of podcasts. First we spoke about arresting the Pope following my post earlier today. The we moved on briefly to discuss the former UKIP MEP Ashley […]

Earlier this week Charon interviewed Lord Falconer about his attempt to amend the law to legalise assisted suicide in some cases – they also discussed the new Supreme Court. It’s a good listen, timed perfectly for this week with […]

Charon interviewed me today: we spoke about the Supreme Court, its origins and what we expect from it, and whether the superficial change from House of Lords to Supreme Court will bring with it more significant changes, such as […]

Charon interviewed me this morning about Wednesday’s House of Lords judgment in Home Secretary v AF, in which they ruled, applying the ECtHR judgment in A v UK, that there is a breach of […]

Charon interviewed me today about the MPs’ offences scandal – including potential criminal liability under the Fraud Act 2006 – and about the Speaker’s decision to call in the police, not to investigate MPs’ claims but astonishingly to investigate […]

Last week, Charon interviewed Sara Chandler, who’s director or the pro-bono unit at the College of Law, about the situation of lawyers and other human rights advocates in Colombia. Sara was one of over forty British lawyers who visited […]

A couple of days ago I was interviewed by Natasha Phillips of Divorce Manual – we spoke for an hour about, gosh, lots of things: my legal career, how I got interested in human rights, […]