Law Review: Lord Ashcroft’s tax, Lord Chief Justices speak out, ASBO for dressing as schoolgirl and more women judges are beeing appointed.

It would seem that the Tories are not entirely sure about the tax paying status of their Deputy Chairman, Lord Ashcroft. Senior Tory clears up Lord Ashcroft tax mystery … or does he? The Guardian reports: “A senior source said Sir George Young had ‘mis-spoken’ when he told the BBC that Ashcroft was a ‘non-dom’.  [...]

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Law Review: Criminals in uniform and Cameron’s latest stunt to let people govern by petition while pissed up on a Friday night.

After years of difficulties with Dizaei, he was finally ‘nailed and jailed’ yesterday for abusing his police powers. Described by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson as a ‘criminal in uniform’ The Sun comforts us all be reporting the words of Mark Leech, the editor of prisoner’s magazine Converse, “”Dizaei has finally been nailed and [...]

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Brown to attend summit on Greek debt position

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Law Review: The Grievemeister of Spin, glass ceiling yet again, hidden daggers and a trip to the law blogs

Fresh from supporting the ‘Kill a burglar’ wheeze conjured up by Chris Grayling and David Cameron last week -    Dominic Grieve, Shadow Overlord on Everything to do with Law, has a new plan to grab votes from  the outraged classes of Britain who want prisons to be stripped of swimming pools, televisions, soft beds blah [...]

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Postcard from The Staterooms-on-Thames, Battersea, London

Dear Reader, I write from The Staterooms-on-Thames, Battersea – a curious place overlooking Chelsea Marina and close to Battersea Bridge. I can’t quite see the boat I used to live on at Cheyne Walk beside Battersea Bridge.  It is a short walk to World’s End, Chelsea for coffee, breakfast and a read of the papers.  [...]

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Clerics call to bring god back into government!

A senior Church of England bishop has condemned the Labour Government for forcing God out of politics. Times: The Bishop of Durham, Dr Tom Wright, the fourth-most-senior in the church hierarchy, warned that the British public had been left to “lurch in a sea of amoralism”. The Prime Minister had become akin to an “absolute [...]

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Rive Gauche: MPs to be prosecuted edition

While Guido Fawkes reported this morning that 52% of MPs have been ‘found guilty’ of ‘looting’ in the parliamentary expenses fiasco – the Director of Public prosceutions has decided to charge 3 MPs and a peer.  A sixth peer is under further investigation. The BBC reports: ” MPs Elliot Morley, Jim Devine, David Chaytor and [...]

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Law Review: Skulduggery at the Supreme Court?…already?

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.  ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Frances Gibb, writing in The Times today, has a remarkable story about intrigue, jealousy, rejection, skulduggery and mysterious goings on in the shadows of the establishment. Frances Gibb was not writing about some new docudrama about lawyers – she relates [...]

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Move to London

I am moving to London this morning – I will post again later in the day when the move is completed!

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Tory MP says wearing burka is like putting a paper bag over your head

The BBC reports: An MP has called the wearing of burkas the religious equivalent of “going round with a paper bag over your head. In a parliamentary debate, Conservative MP Philip Hollobone said it was “offensive” for women to cut off face-to-face contact with other people. The Kettering MP said he had “huge sympathy” with [...]

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Breaking News: David Cameron secures part in Avatar II

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Law Review: Silk, Iraq, Victims, Discrimination – what more do you need for a Tuesday?

Why the legal debates about Iraq will never end The Times has an interesting article by Professor Malcolm Shaw QC. It is worth reading to get a perspective on the issue of the legaility of the Iraq war.  Shaw opens with “What have we learnt so far from the Iraq inquiry with regard to international [...]

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The lost ‘Ark of the Tory Covenant’ – Film Noir

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Breaking News: Tories will issue every householder in Britain with a .44 Magnum

I don’t know what they are smoking down at the Tory Think Tank – but it is heavy shit judging from the latest policies on Law & Order being revealed in recent days.  The Tories plan to change a perfectly sensible law into something verging on insane – because they say that people, courts and [...]

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Law Review: Superinjunctions, assisted dying, kidnap and lawyers from hell redux

Personality is part of politics whether politicians like it or not. Spitting Image, the parody puppet show years ago, showed how a politician’s parody image could become more ‘real’ in the public mind than the reality of  a thousand speeches in the House of Commons.  When I think of Lord Tebbitt even today… I still [...]

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