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Haroon Siddique
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Haroon Siddique
@Haroon_Siddique
Legal Affairs Correspondent at the Guardian. The bald facts. [email protected] or (encrypted) [email protected] AWOL from X
- Letter in today’s Guardian: “In recent years, the food bank has used grants from the national lottery to support its activities, but recent applications for funding have been unsuccessful. They have been told that much of the funding is going to events celebrating the coronation”
- Reporting by Observer & Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr on the “covert relationship” between the multimillionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks & the Russian government was of the greatest public interest imaginable, her lawyer has told the high court
- Family of UK citizen, Nnamdi Kanu, who was taken to Nigeria in alleged act of extraordinary rendition has been granted court hearing to challenge the UK government for not intervening in his case. Among those cited is Liz Truss for role while foreign sec
- Three UK foreign secretaries have failed to call for the release of a British national - Ipob leader Nnamdi Kanu - being held in Nigeria after falling victim to a “brazen and violent” act of extraordinary rendition, the high court has heard
- EXCL: Three former supreme court justices, including the court’s former president Lady Hale, are among more than 600 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges warning that the UK government is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel
- Delighted to be starting with immediate effect as the Guardian's new legal affairs correspondent. Please get in touch with any law-related stories/tips. Contact details in my bio. Hopefully will put my LLB Hons to good effect!
- The Law Society & Bar Council have jointly criticised the treatment of immigration solicitor Jacqueline Mckenzie,by Conservative party HQ after she wrote in the Guardian about how the Tories sent a dossier of info about her to right-leaning newspapers
- The letter to the Society of Editors about racism within the media has been featured on the website of the Archewell Foundation, set up by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex archewell.com/news/archewell…
- I wrote this about my amazing dad, who died last week after being hospitalised with coronavirus symptoms
- Excl: Afghans died because of Raab’s delay in reviewing documents, officials told
- Interview with @JolyonMaugham discussing what motivates him, what’s next for Good Law project & how the govt tried to get him to refer himself to his professional regulator
- Dismay over adviser chosen to set up UK race inequality commission: Munira Mirza has cast doubt on the existence of institutional racism and condemned previous inquiries for fostering a “culture of grievance”
- Carole Cadwalladr has told a court she believes the multimillionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks, who is suing her for libel, may have been “used and exploited” by the Russian government
