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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 August 2023 English
8th August 2023 (Picture credit.) * The former president of the United States is facing serious legal trouble, with a serious criminal indictment which takes seriously his role in the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 June 2023 English
27 June 2023 A sensible policy proposal to monitor the recommendations of coroners’ inquests * * “How did this person die?” In any organised society this is one of the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 May 2023 English
19th May 2023 In the Financial Times magazine this weekend – and on their website (though behind a paywall) – is a fascinating and detailed article on the commercialisation of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 April 2023 English
26th April 2023 The news about the royals and hacking, well summarised and analysed by Joshua Rozenberg at his Substack, brings us back to the start of a circle. For …
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 · 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 …