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Adam Wagner
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I think ⁦@Dannythefink⁩ is generally right to question the constitutional path the Cherry/Miller case is leading us on, though I think the Laws/Sumption approach is at the least contestable... 1/2
thetimes.co.uk/article/a0873b…
@Dannythefink ... I reached a similar conclusion (that we need to understand what is happening here and take stock) but from a slightly different direction newstatesman.com/politics/brexi…
@Dannythefink ... my answer, going further than @dannythefink but perhaps not much, is to take bull by the horns and start on the path to a written constitution. I can’t see any better solution to the problems arising from a part-written constitution where the courts have to fill in the gaps.
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Can we have three cheers 🎉👏🙌 for the @UKSupremeCourt staff who made the most important constitutional case of a generation so wonderfully accessible:
👍Video feed worked a treat
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@UKSupremeCourt As someone who has been in... over 100? civil courts there is nothing like @UKSupremeCourt for accessibility, friendliness, efficiency and living up to the principle of open justice. They deserve huge credit, this stuff isn't easy. And it's how a constitutional court should be.
@UKSupremeCourt It's worth noting, though, that as @BarristerSecret has exposed, the rest of the court system is mostly an underfunded disaster area. Don't assume shiny @UKSupremeCourt is the norm - it's the exception.
Public inquiries are also excellent but they have separate non-MoJ funding
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Aidan O'Neill QC gives an almost psychological explanation of how the distance of Edinburgh from London allows the Scottish courts to have perspective and see when a government action is just wrong. I like it! Different to Pannick's more 'high principle' approach
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O'Neill, like me, likes the Supreme Court carpet, which was specially designed to include the four symbols of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom
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Annoyingly, I don't think that fair usage (the ability to use short sections of copyrighted material for e.g. news reporting) applies to Supreme Court footage. This is where the exception comes from legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/…
This is the law governing Supreme Court footage, which appears to give the SC an absolute discretion to make recording "subject to such conditions as the Supreme Court thinks proper with respect to publication" legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/49/… (ht @gabrielquotes)
And this is the Supreme Court have said about how the recording can be used, though you might argue the first and second sentences are contradictory as I, for example, would repost footage for the purpose of fair and accurate reporting...supremecourt.uk/live/court-01.…
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