The Product Regulation Bill will be an early test of Attorney General Richard Hermer KC’s welcome distaste for over-broad delegated powers (expressed in this week’s Bingham Lecture www.gov.uk/government/s...). The House of Lords Constitution Committee may also have something to say about it.
I think this may be the part of the AG’s agenda that’s going to be the hardest to realise. www.gov.uk/government/s...
New post | Judicial review 101: McAleenon in the Supreme Court publiclawforeveryone.com/2024/10/16/j...
Although the Supreme Court’s judgment in In the matter of an application by Noeleen McAleenon for Judicial Review [2024] UKSC 31 traverses some ostensibly technical ground, it is underpinned by an …
A very good summary of Lord Hermer’s lecture last night. open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...
UK wants new permanent members on the security council
There is some pressure on commercial authors to minimise or remove notes. It’s thought they put readers off because they make books look too thinky, & of course higher page counts cost more to print & ship. But in an age when we all need to think critically & assess sources, this is disastrous.
What happens after ECHRexit: 1. The sun will rise. 2. The boats will still come. 3. France will be less cooperative and will not take any migrants back. 4. The EU will sanction us, esp over NI. 5. Brexiters will wail about punishment and will then call for exit from the 1951 UN refugee convention.
Are you over 55, and don’t have a Will? It’s Free Wills Month. Having a Will stops a lot of ambiguity and stress for your loved ones when you die, and you can leave money to charity too. freewillsmonth.org.uk#start
I don’t agree with it but the simple, distinctive, easily doable policy that might actually help the Tories would be simply to repeal the Human Rights Act, without any British Bill of Rights rubbish or ECHR withdrawal. It’s bonkers that they’ve never had this policy.
Given that Robert Jenrick is doubling down on his position on leaving the ECHR - insisting that anyone in his Shadow Cabinet would have to support this position - I guess it’s time to repost this. Again. Rather depressing. www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...
Anyone reading the news over the past two days could be forgiven for feeling a certain sense of déjà vu. Senior figures in government, including an unnamed cabinet minister, have suggested that if Rwa...
New post | The Conservative leadership election and withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights publiclawforeveryone.com/2024/10/11/t...
Robert Jenrick MP, one of the two remaining contenders for the leadership of the Conservative Party, has made the UK’s withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) a central par…