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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 …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 October 2023 English
25th October 2023 * The legal(isitic) concept of proportionality does not exist in a vacuum, for it is a term for the relationship between means and objectives * There is …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 October 2023 English
11th October 2023 Thierry Breton is the Commissioner for Internal Market of the European Union and yesterday he sent a letter: * You may have strong views – very strong …
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 …