The legality or otherwise of the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 has been the biggest international legal issue of our time – and it continues to cause division and disagreement not only in the Dog and […]

Thanks to Charon for spotting the Times story today reporting that both current law officers, Baroness Scotland and Vera Baird, agree with the line taken yesterday by Lord Goldsmith, and feel that the case has […]

At the Commons Home Affairs select committee today, both the DPP Sir Ken MacDonald and the last Attorney General Lord Goldsmith have said they see no need to extend pre-charge detention of terror suspects beyond 28 days.

Damningly […]

There are two of them.

First, Ward v PSNI, in which the Lords ruled that it was lawful, under the Terrorism Act 2000, for a judge considering an extension of detention, so that the police could […]

In the E case their Lordships had no difficulty in agreeing that a curfew of 12 hours a day, combined with noticeably less restrictive conditions than in the JJ case (E lives with his wife […]

My lengthy post on the JJ case explained how the Home Secretary has now been limited to imposing curfews of 16 hours (or less) under her control order regime; I thought I’d better post again though, on the […]

On Wednesday the Lords gave their judgment in the appeals of JJ and others, MB and AF, and E, against the making of control orders against them under the Prevention […]

At PMQs the other day, David Cameron asked why the government hasn’t banned the Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir. The Tory website explains Cameron’s stance (and provides a link the to BBC video of PMQs) here. Gordon Brown responded by saying […]

The uncorrected version of his evidence isn’t on the Lords website yet, but I read on the BBC that Charles Clarke has made the most spectacularly dim remarks about the difficulties of being Home Secretary, about judges and the […]