Unfixing Parliament
The governent’s attempt to regain the right to call an election is problematic
Crime incorporated
Why is it so hard to put rogue companies in the dock?
Silk but no silken tongue
Sometimes the top legal officers need to give the government advice it doesn’t want to hear
Trial by Jury
I should have known that expressing the slightest doubt about trial by jury would lead to public opprobrium
Open to review?
The Faulks panel may prove to be a convenient fig leaf to allow government to override the rule of law
Gross injustice at the Court of Justice
A British lawyer is fighting her dismissal in a Kafkaesque post-Brexit judicial quagmire
Jury’s out
Reducing jury trials would reduce the legal backlog, but at what cost?
A very private affair
Even without the Human Rights Act, our judges would have developed a new law on privacy by now
Stinger stung
A professional gambler who sued for £7.7 million has unwittingly led the Supreme Court to redefine honesty
British QC begins legal action against EU
If the EU can sack court members — judicial independence will become meaningless