nearlylegal (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The UKSC – dedicated to the doings and ins and outs of the Supreme Court – has a interesting post on Lord Neuberger’s keynote to the SHLA conference. I wonder how the SHLA audience reacted to his observations that Weaver “leaves us with the position that RSLs are likely to be open to HRA challenges [...]
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Council leader denies any wrong doing over expensesLord Hanningfield THE leader of Essex County Council has strenuously denied any wrongdoing after claims that detectives investigating his parliamentary expenses are due to pass a file to the Crown Prosecution Service.Speaking to the EADT yesterday, Lord Hanningfield said that he could account for all of his House of Lords...
Heresy Corner (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Tony Blair's abolition (or, to be more specific, attempted abolition, followed by effective-but-not-quite-abolition) of the ancient and stately office of Lord Chancellor was one of the more remarkable and telling episodes of his time in office. Dishing a thousand years of history in the name of modernisation, it was an act of unparallelled constitutional vandalism, done with scarcely a second...
