NOTES

I warned medical regulators to be ready for a new appellate force and indeed I see that Nicola Davies J has granted the first professional discipline appeal to come before her......

The new QC list will be out tomorrow - good luck everyone.

This is good on Binyam Mohamed http://www.headoflegal.com/2010/02/24/binyam-mohamed-finally-an-end/

And did it really take 8 Lords and 1 Lady to decide this:

it was more accurate and helpful to say that the consequences of interference with art.8 rights had to be exceptionally serious before they could outweigh the importance of extradition, 

If being away from your family meant that you shouldn't face criminal prosecution (whether here or abroad) then we wouldn't have prisoners on remand nor anybody awaiting extradition (and consequently no countries prepared to extradite people to us).  I can't really understand how Mr Norris was going to succeed on this point,  absent some evidence of exceptionally serious interference with his family life?