Law
Silk but no silken tongue
Sometimes the top legal officers need to give the government advice it doesn’t want to hear
Where is Parliament?
If MPs cannot curb rule by decree, then they have little constitutional relevance
Twitter suspends lockdown challenger
Twitter suspended man challenging the Government on lockdown for “spreading potentially harmful information”
Churches say Welsh lockdown is unlawful
Christians leaders have launched a judicial review against the Welsh Assembly
The sword of justice cuts both ways
Unexplained Wealth Orders reverse the burden of proof
Dinner at Brasenose? Unmasking the Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister’s new book tears apart fake news and the notion of compensation culture
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
The wrong kind of race murder
It’s double standards that the killing of white schoolboy Richard Everitt achieved none of the notoriety of Stephen Lawrence’s death
Gross injustice at the Court of Justice
A British lawyer is fighting her dismissal in a Kafkaesque post-Brexit judicial quagmire