On being distinguished: a story about an 'influential lawyer'
I first heard I was among The Times ‘Top 100 Lawyers’ on Twitter. I don’t read the paper, in fact have always treated it as a polemical tract only lightly disguised by learning, so I might never have...
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DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO: HYPOCRISY AND HUMAN RIGHTS Shortly before he became Prime Minister, David Cameron launched the Conservative Party’s Annual Human Rights Report. In it the Party called in...
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Conor Gearty, Liberty and Security (Polity Press, forthcoming) All aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy them. This book explains why this is so. In what Gearty calls...
View ArticleReflections on last night's law night at Occupy LSX
The discussion at Occupy LSX last night was about the role of law in seeking to change the way we understand the society in which we find ourselves. Interestingly there was far less cynicism about law...
View ArticleReflections on yesterday's ruling on the St Paul's Protest
All flourishing Christian organisations need to steer a careful course between mammon and morality. On the one hand there is the wealth, power and influence that flow out of such success, especially if...
View ArticleAbu Qatada v UK
First Article 3.In the Abu Qatada case the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that he is not likely to be tortured or ‘ill-treated’ in Jordan if he is returned there to face the authorities. Now...
View ArticleSt Paul's - reflections on the court ruling on eviction
All flourishing Christian organisations need to steer a careful course between mammon and morality. On the one hand there is the wealth, power and influence that flow out of such success, especially if...
View ArticleAl-Khawaja and Tahery v UK
Surprise – or no surprise at all? The European Court of Human Rights has decided not to precipitate a crisis of authority between itself and the UK Supreme Court. In the long awaited Grand Chamber...
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Well there you are: the European Court of Human Rights has decided not to precipitate a crisis of authority between itself and the UK Supreme Court after all. In today’s Grand Chamber decision in...
View ArticleBritain runs the Council of Europe!
The cat is well and truly out of the bag now.The Foreign Secretary has announced the government’s priorities for its chairmanship of the Council of Europe. ‘Chairmanship of the Council of Europe,’ I...
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So the encampment at Dale Farm has been broken up. The travellers and protestors have left. The final throw of the litigious dice has failed, and the expulsion has been achieved. How did the judicial...
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THE TORIES, THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT AND THE MAKING OF POLITICAL NOISENothing quite marks the decline of the power of British government more powerfully than the performance of the country’s political...
View ArticleWHAT IS REALLY GOING ON AT DALE FARM?
The attempt to remove travellers from Dale Farm in Essex has been the subject of a series of complicated legal actions, some of which are ongoing. Here is a snapshot of the current state of play.In the...
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A TALE OF TWO SPOILT KIDSOn this day ten years ago, 11 September 2001, we were not to know that the perpetrators of the attacks on New York and Washington had played their best card right at the start...
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The Human Rights Act has become for David Cameron what the fox-hunting ban was for Tony Blair: when in a spot of bother with your own support, wheel out something bound to please them. In his article...
View ArticleStark raving Starkey
I first encountered David Starkey in the late 1980s. We were debating freedom and civil liberties together in a BBC2 programme chaired by Jonathan Dimbleby. It was the first time I had ever been on TV...
View Articlea new book-as-a-blog
I am launching a new book on the web, on 6 October 2010. The idea is to write regularly about freedom and human rights, inviting comments on the work as I go along. Then when I have all the comments in...
View Articleshould academic lawyers want to be understood by the general public?
There was a dispiriting moment in the Q and A session after Professor William Twining's excellent address to the Society of Legal Scholars last Thursday, on the need to foster the public understanding...
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Israel’s attack on Gaza is its consolation prize for not being allowed bomb Iran: like a school bully denied the chance to attack another Form, it has picked on some small kids in the playground so as...
View ArticleThe economic collapse
The great good fortune is that these events have taken place before not after the US presidential election: had this happened in March 2009, and had Obama won a tight contest he would have been...
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