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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 May 2024 English
Star Wars Day, 2024 I once came across a quote in a history book which I have never been able to re-find. It was from an acquaintance of I think …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 April 2024 English
24th April 2024 I am not an American lawyer, but here are some thoughts from an English litigation perspective. Trump is adept at what he calls (or his ghost writer …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 April 2024 English
22nd April 2024 One theme of my blogging is the relationship between law and lore. By ‘law and lore’ I mean what people believe to be the law to be, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 April 2024 English
17th April 2024 Hugh Grant has acted in many counter-intuitive scenarios. But the situation he described today on Twitter is perhaps the most counter-intuitive predicament of them all: * Grant …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 March 2024 English
25 March 2024 Over at Prospect I have written a piece on the remarkable witness statement of Johnny Mercer MP given to the current Afghan war crimes inquiry. (On that …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 March 2024 English
21st March 2024 Back in December 2022, this Blog picked up on something odd. Click here to read that post. Joshua Rozenberg picked up on the strange development – and …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 March 2024 English
8th March 2024 Yesterday over at Prospect I did a post on the curious situation of the Michelle Donelan libel settlement. Please click and read the post here. Here I …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 February 2024 English
10th February 2024 This week Prospect posted something by me on the issue of a potential border poll in Northern Ireland. Please click (and read!) here. This post unpacks that …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 January 2024 English
30th January 2024 The decisions of judges, other than about case and court management, can be divided into two sorts. First, there are rulings. These rulings can be about the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 January 2024 English
29 January 2024 * The next general election in the United Kingdom is now less than a year away. The latest possible date the next general election can be held …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 January 2024 English
16th January 2023 Time is a problem for the Post Office, and its government owners, in making any legal claim against Fujitsu. This is because any claim would probably be …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 January 2024 English
12th January 2024 The Post Office Horizon scandal is both simple and complex, straightforward but also difficult to grasp in all its interconnected detail. The essence of the scandal is, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 January 2024 English
1st January 2024 The current parliament must end, by automatic operation of law, before the end of this year. By reason of the Parliament Acts the parliament elected in December …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 December 2023 English
2024 will be a test for the very notion of legitimacy at the basis of the United States constitution * The last post over at my Substack was fairly UK-centric …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 December 2023 English
15th December 2023 * Those criticising human rights law and lawyers often shy away from spelling out the substance of a particular right * You may or may not remember …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 December 2023 English
1st December 2023 Discussing yesterday’s post with a long-suffering friend, the following thought came to mind. In the Rwanda judgment, the Supreme Court goes into detail as to the work …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 November 2023 English
16th November 2023 Yesterday the Supreme Court handed down its appeal judgment in the Rwanda policy case. For an informed view on the case, it is worth taking the time …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 November 2023 English
10th November 2023 Even if the United Kingdom government wins on the lawfulness of the policy, it has already lost in respect of procedure * Those interested in day-to-day politics …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 November 2023 English
9th November 2023 The extraordinary newspaper column of the Home Secretary – the Home Secretary! – should be either consequential (in that the Home Secretary loses their job) or significant …
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 …