Stuart Popham, senior partner of the leading international law firm Clifford Chance, is to stand down at the end of his second four-year term in December and will retire from the firm next April. 

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is still in trouble over an ill-judged article he wrote for the Guardian about Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan.

Readers will have gathered that I am on holiday. But my piece in the latest print edition of Standpoint explores the delicate relationship between judges and politics.

With the Ministry of Justice planning to cut £2bn from its £9bn budget, it’s good to see the Supreme Court doing its bit by hiring out its premises for corporate events, weddings and bar mitzvahs.

I have been sent a copy of the letter in which the president of the High Court Family Division tells the body responsible for administering legal aid of the "grave danger" that the family justice system "will simply implode" because of the way contracts for child-care cases have been awarded. Brief extracts were published in the Sunday Telegraph today.