It’s no surprise that the Supreme Court has today unanimously dismissed appeals by two prisoners who wanted various remedies under the Human Rights Act and EU law for being denied the vote in Parliamentary, […]

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the system of “whole life orders”, whereby in England and Wales a mandatory life sentence may be imposed and the possibility of early release denied under section 269(4) of […]

Here is the government’s draft bill offering Parliament a menu of options on prisoners’ votes.

The IMF boss and front-runner to be the French Socialist Party’s presidential candidate next year, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been refused bail by a court in New York, according to the BBC. As has been widely reported he’s facing a […]

Today the Times is running a (£) story headlined:

Cameron is cleared to defy Europe on human rights

The story is based on an eight-page memo prepared for Nick Clegg that Sam Coates has published on Twitter:

It’s not clear […]

Today I talked to Charon QC on the issue of prisoners’ votes, following MPs vote yesterday in favour of defying the European Court of Human Rights, and retaining the UK’s current “blanket ban”. We explain what the ECtHR is […]

MPs in the Commons will today debate the motion put down by David Davis, Jack Straw and others (main business, over half way down the order paper), which is in these terms:

That this House notes the ruling of the […]

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled today that an Italian prisoner’s rights were breached where he was sentenced to prison for life, and as a result lost the right to vote indefinitely. The ECtHR’s ruling in Scoppola […]

So Mark Stephens has told me in a tweet within the last half hour. Here’s his response

yes. They had a long discussion about it.

to my follow-up inquiry

One more point, Mark: did JA object to the governor’s segregation decision?

Earlier […]

Julian Assange’s lawyer Mark Stephens made the denial in a tweet to me this morning:

he didn’t Carl. Have confirmed to anyone who asked. It was the Governors decision, sd to be for safety.

For a few days now I’ve been […]