Westfield politics
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Watchers of political donations and property developers will be interested in the latest appointment of former attorney general Lord Goldsmith to the board of...
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Answer from Lord Goldsmith
The trawler Gaul (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
In response to our message of 25 June 2008, Lord Goldsmith has gracefully sent us his reply. " As I am no longer Attorney General those matters are more properly for the present Attorney General and I therefore send a copy of your letter onto her ." (The present Attorney General will be looking forward to its receipt, I'm sure. We already contacted her office, a year ago, and that proved to be an unsuccessful...
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Retreating Ragbag Ducks Separation
The Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
A minority report from a parliamentary committee reviewing the role of the attorney general has accused the Minister of Incarceration and Deportation of a "ragbag of retreats". Imagine that. The committee was set up in part because of Lord Goldsmith's performance as New Labour apparatchik, attorney general and chum of Tony, not necessarily in that order. Goldsmith it was who memorably decided
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Lord Goldsmith caught up in 'oligarch riddle'
Times Online (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Lord Goldsmith, the former Attorney-General, has become embroiled in a suspected sting that resulted in a top anti-mafia lawyer being put on trial in secret in Belarus today.
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Pandora: Charlie won't be going back to law school
The Independent (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
When Lord Goldsmith snagged a lucrative position at US law firm
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Lords meet to debate 42 day detention without charge.
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
The lords meet today to debate the Counter Terrorism Bill. Obviously the debate will be centred on the issue of extending detention without charge to 42 days. Lord Goldsmith (former attorney general) and Lord Falconer (former Lord Chancellor) are to lead the attack on the Bill that caused David Davis to resign his seat. In one way, David Davis is achieving his goal of getting the crucial matter of...
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Incommunicado
The trawler Gaul (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Not to mention the truth is like hiding gold. (Proverb from Iraq) Following on from our previous post , in which we published links to the message sent to Lord Goldsmith on the subject of the Gaul, we can now inform you that our noble Lord has not yet replied. Although they had been asked to expect and check its arrival, his office did not acknowledge receipt of that message. It was claimed, in fact,...
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A message to Lord Goldsmith
The trawler Gaul (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
In order to gain more knowledge on the internal workings of the 2004 Gaul RFI, we thought it would be a good idea to contact the ex-Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, on whose behalf the inquiry was held. A message has therefore been delivered to his Lordship, the contents of which can now be scrutinised at: http://docs.google.com/Doc'id=ddpkgjpm_27fxg936cp or at: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/User:Gadfly3D...
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42 DAYS DETENTION - HOW SIGNIFICANT WAS THIS?
SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
It is hard to disagree with Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney-general under Tony Blair, who has said that Gordon brown pushed the bill for 42 days detention without charge through the House of Commons yesterday purely to show his “political virility”. Certainly, the bill as currently drafted and passed by the Commons is likely be rejected in the [...]
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Lord Goldsmith on the Daily Politics
Head of Legal (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
I'm enjoying watching Lord Goldsmith, who's Andrew Neil's guest on the Daily Politics today. He's a serious chap more suited to Newsnight or Today than to joshing about the way Andrew Neil does - but he's doing his best. He thinks the Counter-Terrorism Bill may only be properly debated by the Lords in the autumn. He also made the very good point that 42 days detention isn't necessary for public
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Goldsmith 1 Carlile 0
Liberal Burblings (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
It was interesting hearing Lord Goldsmith and Lord......(I can hardly say the word)........Carlile (there you are) debating the 42 days issue on Today this morning. Lord Carlile is an excellent champion of liberalism. So I therefore find it very difficult to fathom why I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him on these matters. Lord Goldsmith is likely to feature very prominently in the
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Today: 0810 42 Days 12 Jun 08
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Gordon Brown narrowly won the vote on 42 days, but what shape will the debate take in the Lords? Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and Lib Dem peer Lord Carlile give their views.
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Bob Marshall-Andrews: This folly has provoked a unique alliance
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
The strong and growing opposition to detention for 42 days has created strange and wonderful bedfellows. Lord Peter Goldsmith, the former Attorney General, joins the usual Labour suspects in predicting ethnic and racial tension. (In view of his responsibility for the Iraq war this may reek of atonement, but the apostasy remains remarkable nonetheless.) Lord Falconer, devoid of his many jobs, embraces...
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Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith hits out over 42-day terror plans
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Tony Blair’s Attorney-General has given warning that ministers’ safeguards for detaining suspects for up to 42 days have failed to make the proposals acceptable.
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42 days: So who wants it?
A Conservative's blog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Well, we heard the other day that Jacqui Smith admitted that MI5 had not asked for 42 days, and now several senior policemen have also come out and said they are against it, according to todays Guardian . So, to recap, we have the former Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, the Director of Public prosecutions, the former Lord Chancellor, Cheerful Charlie Falconer and many other senior politicians who...
