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David Allen Green

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 November 2023 English

All Saints’ Day, 2023 The Leveson Inquiry ended badly: the recommendations of the report were botched and then ignored. But the Inquiry was not without value: the Inquiry placed into …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 October 2023 English

25th October 2023 * The legal(isitic) concept of proportionality does not exist in a vacuum, for it is a term for the relationship between means and objectives * There is …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 October 2023 English

11th October 2023 Thierry Breton is the Commissioner for Internal Market of the European Union and yesterday he sent a letter: * You may have strong views – very strong …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 September 2023 English

30th September 2023 This is first in a series of posts on the Post Office Horizon prosecutions scandal * The Post Office prosecutions scandal is the United Kingdom’s greatest mass …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 September 2023 English

I have been working on two longer posts, which should be up in the next few days. One is on the Post Office miscarriage of justice: in particular, the legal …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 September 2023 English

9th September 2023 Over at Prospect magazine I have written an article headlined Whatever happened to ‘the best-governed city in the world’?. Please do click and read it. The rest …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 September 2023 English

8th September 2023 On this anniversary of Elizabeth II’s death, we are still in the legislative session commenced with the Queen’s Speech of May 2022 – one monarch and two …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 September 2023 English

7th September 2023 Birmingham has more canals then Venice and more hills than Rome – you will be told – and it has the largest local authority in Europe and …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 August 2023 English

24th August 2023 One conceit of many liberal constitutionalists is that they have a monopoly on constitutionalism: that is the notion that constitutional rights and structures are fundamental to political …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 August 2023 English

21st August 2023 (Source) * The court system is inherently about performance: about justice being seen to be done. And the legal system, more generally, is inherently about coercion: about …