It is a cliché to quote Winston Churchill on democracy, who described it as the worst form of government, except for all the others. The analysis tends to stop there. It is rare in modern times to question the notion of democracy. Aside from the bare notion of democracy, there is the question of who should have the franchise. The purpose of this article is to scrutinise the above cliché, rather than to propose any specific form of government or reach any firm conclusion. In the UK any...

In Aabar Holdings Sarl v Glencore plc [2026] EWHC 877 (Comm), Mr Justice Picken has delivered a second significant judgment concerning legal advice privilege. The case concerned the scope of legal advice privilege in relation to “internal communications between members of the client group and/or documents created by a member of the client group”. The judge was not persuaded that the case of Three Rivers (No.5) [2003] Q.B. 1556 required him to find that legal advice privilege only applies to...

Article by Joseph Chiffers Netfilx has recently a produced a series called the Tik Tok Killer which is a harrowing drama about the disappearance and alleged murder of Esther Estepa in Spain. The alleged killer is standing trial and is of course innocent until proven guilty. Nonetheless, I found it significant that the alleged killer was convicted previously of four murders and was freed as a consequence of a 2013 ruling by the ECtHR. Subsequent rulings have clarified that whole life sentences...