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Jo Maugham QC
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Entirely predictable - and cowardly and despicable - Erdogan-style attacks on judges who did no more than uphold their oaths to apply the law. MPs must now hasten to end the worst Government this country has seen in centuries.
Here's how MPs can - and should - take Johnson down. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/mps-d…
It's not hard to test whether the stuff this desperate Government is pushing is a good idea. You just ask if they'd want it if Corbyn was PM.

A right to suspend a Parliament that wants to scrutinise him? Errm...
Political appointee judges to hold him to account? Umm...
And the notion that the Olde Style Law Lords would have decided the case differently from the Supreme Court is woeful. Goodness me, Lady Hale, the principal target of their ire, was a Law Lord before she transferred to the Supreme Court!
Suggestions that the real reason for Labour's ambivalent attitude to the proposed emergency government is that it would lose some proportion of its £8 million of so-called Short Money.
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Jo Maugham QC
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If there is so urgent a need to respond to an emergency that there isn't time to get an Order IN Council, the Minister can* just make a Statutory Instrument suspending an Act of Parliament. It's not strictly an Order OF Council but it's what, we believe, Sir John had in mind.
We don't think there can be that emergency, we don't think there is that urgency, we don't think there is any legal basis for suspending the Benn Act, and we think a Minister who tried to would be guilty of misconduct in public office.
@GoodLawProject will shortly be issuing an Opinion drafted by leading public law Counsel dealing with these points. When it is available will make it available to the media on request. And then publish it.
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Jo Maugham QC
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I'll be on @BBCPolitics Live at about 12.20pm talking about - stay awake at the back - the difference between Orders in Council and Orders of Council. And other things too.
@BBCPolitics Look, I'm as surprised as you are.
@BBCPolitics Oh, I should say that we now believe we know exactly what Sir John Major was talking about. Watch @BBCPolitics and I'll tell you.
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Jo Maugham QC
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Incredible response to these tweets. Thank you so much. There is so much to do.
And because trolls will be trolls, let me state again, the Good Law Project meets my direct expenses - travel and security and so on - but I have taken not one single penny in profit or earnings from it. Indeed, I have donated not only my own time but many thousands in cash.
Finally, can I say thank you to my many colleagues in the law who for steeply discounted rates, or for free, make their market leading expertise available in service of the things we believe in like the rule of law and parliamentary democracy and the separation of powers.
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