Today I am talking to Carl Gardner, former government lawyer and now a freelance author, lecturer and author of the Head of Legal Blog.
Carl Gardner had a varied career in the government legal service but I focus in on two stints of note; first, at the Cabinet Officer legal advisers, and then his time at The Attorney’s Office. Inevitably, I have to ask him what working with Lord Goldsmith was like.
We discuss a number of topical issues: The EU Treaty, constitutional reform, the proposed extension of detention without trial from 28 to 42 days, and Carl’s theory of ‘Human Rightsism’ which gives us an oppportunity to discuss the House of Lords decision in the Countryside Alliance v Attorney General case.
I even discovered that Carl dances the Tango!
Listen to Podcast 34: Podcast on Human Rights with Carl Gardner.
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Carl Gardner’s Head of Legal website
The Head of Legal analysis of the Countryside alliance case.
We had very heavy rain during the podcast and there is some interference to the internet telephone connection. I have been able to edit most of the interference out
Charon QC 
Very interesting- I heard no significant interference. When’s my interview?
We had a few rather fuzzy moments – first time experienced using skype to connect through the Mac… but the weather was truly appalling. Managed to get most of the fuzz out in Garageband.
I would like to do a Christmas podcast with you GL next weekend – if OK by you. Rioja will be brought in…. and we may get onto X Factor if we sing.
Carl dances the tango.
Skype is generally very good – lot’s of people use it for podcasts. My Skype ID is ‘geeklawyer’ if you want to do it that way.
Normally Skype is excellent… but today, we had a bit of interference with the call connection breaking up. I did use the fee paying version of skype as I was calling a landline. Still incredibly cheap.
If we skype to skype – we can do the podcast for free… I assume. I rather like that…. apart, of course, from our time costs, lost opportunity, generalised disbursements and donations to the Labour Party. I assume that you are a fellow Labour voter 🙂
Saving your podcast to my iTunes so I can listen to it on the train tomorrow. I do so love these.
If you do requests, Charon, how about giving Nearly Legal a Shout/Podcast?!? He does run a VERY interesting blog, after all and it owuld be nice to hear his thoughts on housing law…
LawMinx – I had the pleasure of doing a podcast with Nearly Legal earlier in the year. I will ask him again in the not too distant future – but I have scheduled another 8 over the next month or so.
B*M! I will have to troll through your blog to look for it!
(opens mouth, inserts foot)
🙂
Here is the podcast for Nearly Legal
https://charonqc.wordpress.com/2007/04/29/podcast-19-nearly-legal-on-housing-law-and-other-matters-2/
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