June 2010

If Lady Hale is right, the Supreme Court did not allow an appeal by the Ministry of Defence this morning after all. There was no majority decision after all that the Human

On 18 June, the extremist Indian preacher, Zakir Naik, was banned from entering the UK by the Home Secretary. This has drawn criticism from the usual circles: former senior member of the

Over at his new blog Inayat Bunglawala is already tying himself in knots over the guilty plea by failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. During his plea hearing Shahzad told the court:

The Office for Judicial Complaints has tried to block publication of the news that Cherie Booth QC is to be given "informal advice from a senior judge" about comments she made when

Inner Temple, one of the four inns of court, has arranged a day of lectures and panel discussions on Saturday about the Greek origins of democracy and "its past, present, and future

You remember Alex Stobbs, the young musician who featured in the Channel 4 documentary A Boy Called Alex and the follow-up A Passion for Life? The films traced his determination, despite suffering

It has recently emerged that Mohammad Abdul Aziz, a 'Senior Muslim Adviser' to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) - a department tasked with promoting community cohesion - is an

Six members of the Israeli Supreme Court flew home this morning after spending a week in London as guests of their British counterparts.

The great Bryan Appleyard, surely the most underrated journalist in Britain, has picked up on this Guardian survey of leading Labour thinkers. "Whither the left?" it cried. And the answers were a

Cherie Booth QC has been cleared of allegations of judicial misconduct.