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 …

How the legal system made it so easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and …

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, …

The coming year: how the parameters of the constitution will shape the politics of 2024

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 …

The coming constitutional excitements in the United States

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 …

What is often left unsaid in complaints about pesky human rights law and pesky human rights lawyers

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 …

A role-reversal? – a footnote to yesterday’s post

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 …

On yesterday’s Supreme Court judgment on the Rwanda policy

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 …

The courts have already deflated the Rwanda policy, regardless of the Supreme Court judgment next Wednesday

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 …

The extraordinary newspaper column of the Home Secretary – and its implications

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 …

Drafts of history – how the Covid Inquiry, like the Leveson Inquiry, is securing evidence for historians that would otherwise …

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 …