A Yellow Guard

In a welcome move, at least for those of us who had serious concerns about how Judge Masipa dealt with dolus eventualis in the Oscar Pistori...

I am so frustrated by what has happened that I have found it difficult to take a step back and write a measured blog post about it, and inst...

A blog post by Felicity Gerry QC has today left me thinking again about the verdict in the Oscar Pistorius trial.  I need to disclaim at th...

I would appreciate comment from any lawyerly folks out there. I haven't been following the Pistorius trial very closely (hardly at all...

I had previously mentioned the case of Herbert Smulls, a man executed by the State of Missouri before the United States Supreme Court had e...

This story originally caught my attention when I saw a tweet from Niall O'Dowd as I boarded a plane for a week's holiday in the U.S...

This classical Latin question of 2,000 years ago has no greater relevance than to Ireland today.  The national police force, An Garda Síoch...

The Washington Post today has an interesting profile of Judge Arenda Wright Allen who penned the historic judgment (covered in my last blogp...

Way back in the day when for a few months I first gave writing a blog a bash, I wrote a post about an elderly British gentleman and his exp...

I got really annoyed on Thursday evening, when I read a comment on CNN in an article entitled ' Amanda Knox retrial verdict: Six thi...

So says a BBC news report  on his release. This is a very sloppy piece of reporting by the BBC who appear to have fallen for Corey...

Alex Aldridge over at Legal Cheek  brought to my attention  BPP's announcement that they were offering a "career guarantee" to...

So, it's all over bar the shouting in the David Miranda judicial review, heard in front of Lord Justice Laws (whose name I don't thi...

A judgment was handed down on Wednesday that raises further questions about the legality of some aspects of David Miranda's detention at...

Since writing my last post a few days ago about the David Miranda case, further details have come out about the contents of the 'Port Ci...

An interesting conundrum cropped up at Southwark Crown Court this morning. The Defendant, an Algerian national (there was no mention that he...

David Miranda's detention at Heathrow Airport in August kicked off a storm of commentary as to whether this was an unlawful use of th...