Eight ideas for refining and reinforcing the Coronavirus restriction regulations (non exhaustive):
(1) Put the home confinement power and associated removal power on an express statutory basis.
(2) Require positive Parliamentary re-approval at regular periods.
(3) Prescribe or limit the instructions that can be given by police and other relevant persons, breach of which is an offence (see coronavirus.blackstonechambers.com/coronavirus-an… para 24).
(4) Remove or limit when force can be used short of arrest by police eg where people refuse to accompany a relevant person to their home.
(5) Remove the subjective nature of the powers of relevant persons to remove or disperse persons and require reasonable belief (above paras 22-23)
(6) Put beyond doubt that shopping normally for food and drink is not an offence and that people are not limited to, or even required to buy, ‘necessary’ or ‘basic’ items. See exchange here:
(7) Remove differences between parts of UK absent clear rationale: coronavirus.blackstonechambers.com/coronavirus-an… para 29
(8) Set out in the law additional grounds for leaving home for persons with health needs (and potentially with young children) to access open spaces for recreation/respite as part of same household. Eg bindmans.com/news/governmen…
