Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel

It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life

The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power

Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?

The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives

What of prime minister-in-waiting Keir Starmer’s views on legal issues?

Small disputes involving ordinary people are not a waste of the courts’ time

Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench

The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another

Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing