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 …

A close look at the Donelan libel settlement: how did a minister make her department feel exposed to expensive legal …

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 …

A close look at the law and policy of holding a Northern Ireland border poll – and how the law …

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 …

How the government is seeking to change the law on Rwanda so as to disregard the facts

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 …

How the next general election in the United Kingdom is now less than a year away

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 …

Could the Post Office sue its own former directors and advisers regarding the Horizon scandal?

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 …

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 …