We’re getting used by now to MPs moaning that the sensible expenses rules now being applied to them are supposedly unlawful. The latest claim is that preventing MPs from employing spouses and relatives would lead to unfair dismissal, […]

I often agree with John Bolch about sharia law; always, in fact. So it’s no surprise I should agree with his post yesterday about the claim made by an Islamic “scholar” that sharia law doesn’t discriminate against women. The […]

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 […]

A remarkable ruling last week from the ECJ in case C-506/06 Mayr v Flöckner, which extends the concept of sex discrimination under the Equal Treatment Directive, 76/207, to cover unfavourable treatment of a woman because she is […]

I just knew there was going to be a pro-Williams backlash today. To be fair to the people who’ve stepped up to the plate, they’re brave in taking an unpopular stance. But I’m so, soooo in disagreement with them that […]