Radio 4 ‘Law in Action ‘ prog on Friday afternoon, have just covered two items of interest.

1 . on the request for disclosure of attorney general, Lord Goldsmith advice in several cases / defence of necessity etc, previously discussed in:

Trial of Fairford Five will put pressure on Goldsmith

Clare Dyer, legal correspondent. Saturday February 28, 2004. The Guardian

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1158257,00.html

The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, will come under new pressure to disclose his full advice on the legality of the Iraq war in the run-up to a five-day hearing by a high court judge in April.

Five peace activists charged with criminal damage at RAF Fairford are pleading like Katharine Gun, the former GCHQ translator whose prosecution under the Official Secrets Act for leaking a memo was thrown out last week – that they acted to prevent an illegal war.

Previously on my blog at:

http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2004_02_29_tash_lodge_archive.html#107801900999501857

and

2. Do we need tougher public order laws to deal with aggressive animal rights campaigners? a very expert opinion.

Do check it all out in this show

Law in Action Page:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/law_in_action/default.stm

Law in Action ‘Listen Again’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lawinaction/ram/lawinaction_current.ram

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