Intermission

Postings on this website will be even more sparse than usual until the courts return after Easter. Apologies to all my readers.

Meanwhile, I have been waiting to see which news outlet would be the first to pick up Lord Hoffmann’s farewell attack on the European Court of Human Rights. It came in a lecture he delivered to the Judicial Studies Board as long ago as March 19.

This subsequently appeared on the board’s website. It was not until April 1 that it first appeared on the judiciary website, languishing as a suspected spoof until the Today programme brought it to a wider audience this morning.

I plan to write about the lecture in my column for next month’s Standpoint magazine, so I hope readers will forgive me if I keep my powder dry until then.

Posted at April 4, 2009 04:14 PM