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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 April 2023 English
19th April 2023 Almost all civil litigation ends before a trial takes place. Civil litigation – where one party sues another person in respect of a legal wrong – is …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 April 2023
19th April 2023 Almost all civil litigation ends before a trial takes place. Civil litigation – where one party sues another person in respect of a legal wrong – is …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 April 2023 English
18th April 2023 The next general election, we are told, is likely to be within the next eighteen months. The last general election, back in December 2019, returned the Conservatives …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 April 2023 English
17th April 2023 Social media, now that it has been invented, cannot be un-invented. Anyone with the resources and inclination, and with access to the internet, can create a site …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 14 April 2023 English
Thank you for your patience while I had a break over Easter from blogging: even law and policy commentators sometimes need rest and recuperation. I will be back seeking to …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 April 2023 English
Maundy Thursday 2023 The story of the trial of Jesus of Nazareth has always fascinated me. I happen to be a non-militant atheist but that hardly matters, for the gospels’ …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 April 2023 English
5th April 2023 Let us start with the old adage: justice not only has to be done, justice must also be seen to be done. The phrase is sometimes attributed …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 April 2023 English
4th April 2023 It would not matter if it were Jimmy Carter or George Bush, Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, Joe Biden or Donald Trump: the fact that a former …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 April 2023 English
3rd April 2023 There has been another amusing (at least to outsiders) copyright case. This one is about cute baby dragons. You do not often get – usually earnest – …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 March 2023 English
31st March 2023 Another “-ment’. Following his two impeach-ments, former President Donald Trump now has an indict-ment. (There is a pleasing parallel to this, as impeachment was the quasi-judicial process …