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David Allen Green

On how regulating the media is hard – if not impossible – and on why reviving the Leveson Inquiry may not be the best basis for seeing what regulations are now needed
Trump’s case – a view from an English legal perspective
Law and lore, and state failure – the quiet collapse of the county court system in England and Wales
How the civil justice system forced Hugh Grant to settle – and why an alternative to that system is difficult to conceive
Unpacking the remarkable witness statement of Johnny Mercer – a closer look at the extraordinary evidence put before the Afghan war crimes tribunal
The curious incident of the Afghanistan war crimes statutory inquiry being set up
A close look at the Donelan libel settlement: how did a minister make her department feel exposed to expensive legal liability?
A close look at the law and policy of holding a Northern Ireland border poll – and how the law may shape what will be an essentially political decision
How the government is seeking to change the law on Rwanda so as to disregard the facts
How the next general election in the United Kingdom is now less than a year away
Could the Post Office sue its own former directors and advisers regarding the Horizon scandal?
How the legal system made it so easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses – and how the legal system then made it so hard for them to obtain justice
The coming year: how the parameters of the constitution will shape the politics of 2024
The coming constitutional excitements in the United States
What is often left unsaid in complaints about pesky human rights law and pesky human rights lawyers
A role-reversal? – a footnote to yesterday’s post
On yesterday’s Supreme Court judgment on the Rwanda policy
The courts have already deflated the Rwanda policy, regardless of the Supreme Court judgment next Wednesday
The extraordinary newspaper column of the Home Secretary – and its implications
Drafts of history – how the Covid Inquiry, like the Leveson Inquiry, is securing evidence for historians that would otherwise be lost