In the wake of the Government's defeat on tax credits in the House of Lords, the House of Commons Library has published a briefing paper, "Conventions on the relationship between the...

On 4 November 2015, the government published the Investigatory Powers Bill, containing new surveillance powers for police and security services in the UK. The draft Bill, which is expected...

The Independent Commission on Freedom of Information has recently issued a call for evidence as part of a review which may herald comprehensive changes to the Freedom of Information Act...

On 17 July 2015, the High Court declared the operative provision of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 ("DRIPA") to be inconsistent with EU law, in response to a judicial...

The Hogan Lovells legal opinion, which includes a foreword by human rights law heavyweight Geoffrey Robertson QC, will be presented today at a congressional hearing before the US House of...

As part of the sweeping reforms to judicial review that came into effect on 1 July 2013, the courts now have the power under CPR 54.12(7) to label a claim as "totally without merit" at the...

In the annual Queen's Speech before Parliament this morning, the Queen set out the legislative agenda for Coalition's final year.  Four of those measures, which concern infrastructure,...