‘There is a compelling case for reform of the legal costs system. The first thing must be to abolish conditional fees’

‘If the Tories make the Human Rights Convention harder to enforce in British courts, they would undermine Lord Hoffmann's best point: that our courts are just as able to interpret the convention as European judges’

‘Ten years ago, I was in favour of an international criminal court. I was naive’

The acquittal of Greenpeace activists who vandalised a power station reveals a legal loophole vulnerable to political exploitation