We are in the unusual position where the President of the United States and the man most likely to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom are subject to significant legal proceedings at the same time. So what happens when the most powerful politicians in their respective countries are alleged to have fallen […]
The Rule of Law. Like democracy, the phrase is much used by politicians when they are trying to assume the role of a statesman rather than just being a mouthpiece of their party: they hope that it somehow elevates them to a higher philosophical plane. But practising lawyers know its true meaning: they live by […]
By convention, judges very rarely give interviews and never make political comment. Even in our all pervasive media age, they still follow the dictum of Lord Justice MacKinnon, who wrote in 1940: “He is the best judge whose name is known to the fewest readers of the Daily Mail.” In November 2016, the Daily Mail […]
