I said I’d write about the case; and now, finally, I am doing. Here’s last week’s judgment about control order. There’s also the podcast I recorded with Charon QC about it, don’t forget.

I must admit, I […]

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 spoke to me again this afternoon, this time about Abu Qatada – the Lords ruling on Wednesday and today’s ruling from Strasbourg awarding him compensation. We talk a bit about the man himself and the whole sage of […]

It’s all about him at the moment, isn’t it? Now, the ECtHR has decided to give him €2,800 to compensate him for his detention in Belmarsh prison from 2002 to 2005.

There’ll be strong feelings about this ruling, […]

I stuck to legal analysis in my last post on Abu Qatada, because I think that’s more interesting than writing about how wicked he is and/or how wicked torture is. But reading this extraordinary piece by Victoria Brittain at […]

The Lords today have ruled today, unanimously, in RB (Algeria) and OO (Jordan) v Home Secretary that Algerian terror suspects and the Jordanian Abu Qatada can lawfully be deported to their home countries; to do so would […]

I’m interested that Lord Goldsmith, writing in yesterday’s Independent, essentially agrees with me on the Binyam Mohamed case:

That the High Court finally agreed – with some apparent regret – with the Foreign Secretary in believing […]

Here it is. I think it’s a good judgment, and I’m glad I was cautious last night about joining the chorus of outrage: it does not seem obvious to me that justice requires the 25-line summary of evidence the […]

It’s difficult, without seeing the judges’ ruling, to be completely sure that the information Thomas LJ and Lloyd-Jones J would like to publish relating to the treatment of Binyam Mohamed must be published by a British court: originally […]

I thought you’d be interested in a couple of stories (in English) about the German government’s proposed new BKA law (Federal Crime Agency law, would be my translation) which is proving controversial because it will […]