I was surveying the wreckage from yesterday’s demonstration when I noticed something that says a lot about British democracy and the rule of law. The long running protest by Brian Haw (now joined by others) has been an unsightly part of Parliament Square for some years and various attempts have been made to end it.…
I returned recently from a legal conference in S Africa about the Rule of Law, attended by equal numbers of British and S African lawyers and judges. The legal profession in S Africa is of the highest quality; even at the height of apartheid their judges bravely defended human rights (although not always). British law students…
We had a statement on counter terrorism policy yesterday. It makes sober reading. I intervened with a question (or my own statement!) pointing out that some vulnerable people and young people were targeted by terror groups using the argument that because bad things happen in a democracy we are therefore no better than some of…
