The Convention on Modern Liberties

I was lucky enough to get one of the last tick­ets to the first Con­ven­tion on Mod­ern Liber­ties this week­end. I don’t intend this to be a full review of why the con­ven­tion took place or a com­plete review of what was said, just my mus­ings on what I saw. If you want a com­pre­hens­ive


I’ve Been Away

Firstly, I’d like to apo­lo­gise to my three read­ers for the lack of recent updates. I’ve been away on hol­i­day in India, more of which below.
Secondly, this Sat­urday is the Con­ven­tion on Mod­ern Liber­ties. Tick­ets are sold out but I am led to believe you can fol­low live web stream­ing at www.modernliberty.net.
There has been plenty that has


Harry in P-Word Shocka!

So Harry used the P– word. Stop press, hold the front page. Now, I’m not asian or Muslim so Polly Toyn­bee would reason I am ineligible to com­ment. Inter­est­ingly I happened upon the Human­ist Soci­ety web­site today, saw La Toyn­bee was pres­id­ent and as a res­ult con­sidered con­ver­sion to either Chassidic Juda­ism or the Pente­costal Church of the Scream­ing Loony.


New Head of Military Prosecutions

It was with interest recently that I read about the appoint­ment of Bruce Houlder QC as the Dir­ector of Ser­vice Pro­sec­u­tions. In this post he will preside over the new joint ser­vices courts mar­tial sys­tem which is expec­ted to finally be oper­a­tional in Octo­ber 2009. Mr Houlder is, I believe, the first non mil­it­ary law­yer