Guest post: Brexit analysis – Why the real danger to Parliamentary sovereignty isn’t Europe
As we await David Cameron’s sovereignty plan this week, it might help to explain what we mean by ‘Parliamentary sovereignty’.
Guest post: Fraud unravels all: the Supreme Court divorce judgments in Sharland and Gohil
The Supreme Court has given two judgments – Sharland v Sharland, and Gohil v Gohil – about re-opening divorce settlements on the grounds of fraud. Sharland lays down a new test in cases involving fraud, which should mean more settlements are reopened in future.
Guest post: what might the Tory human rights plan be?
Although Tory hostility to human rights law is obvious, there’s been vagueness till now about what actual policy a Conservative government would pursue. For a long time the plan was to draft a ‘British Bill of Rights’ the content of which was unclear – and the idea hasn’t gone away.
Guest post: Dominic Grieve as Attorney General, 2010-2014
The first time I ran into Dominic Grieve, he made a fool of the Labour shadow justice minister, Paul Boateng. It was in the 1990s, at a Liberty conference on human rights.
Guest post: R (PressBoF) v Culture Secretary: the hearing
I was in court 68 at the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday morning (30 October) to hear the Press Standards Board of Finance’s (PressBoF) urgent application for interim relief – an injunction – to stop the government from getting the cross-party press regulation Royal Charter granted by the Queen in Privy Council this afternoon. The …
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