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Alarming news from Hong Kong. Leading human rights barrister, & former member of Hong Kong Legislative Council, has been arrested.

Last year she won the IBA award for outstanding contribution to human fights. Hong Kong’s democracy and rule of law is teetering on the brink.
Aargh. “human rights”. iPhone autocorrect, too early to spot it.
The news is alarming, not least because it targets lawyers & former legislators, a generation of pro-democracy activists who campaigned for democracy & rule of law in Hong Kong long before the Umbrella Movement began.

The timing of this, as the world is consumed with Covid...
On timing, the arrest purports to relate to the organisation and participation in protest marches last August.

The arrests come as the world’s eye is turned, consumed with the response to the pandemic. #HongKong #ruleoflaw #humanrights

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It doesn’t clarify the confusion created by govt for Johnson to assert “entirely guided by the science”, without explaining why.

As for “common sense” as the arbiter of enforcement by the police, or employers, optimism isn’t a substitute for clarity and the shape of the law.
To give just one example of the debate raging all day, what is the science and/or common sense basis as to why people can socially distance 2m from hundreds of strangers in crowded parks, but not see both grand/parents at social distance either in a park or private garden?
Perhaps there is a very sound reason for this. If so, clarity and leadership requires the govt to spell it out to retain buy-in and trust from the public to keep going.
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Changing the slogan or changing the law?

As things stand, Reg6 of Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) Regulations makes it an offence to leave or be outside of the place where we are living without reasonable excuse.

How is “stay at home as much as possible” enforced?
This isn’t just legal finesse. We all have a right to know what conduct is criminalised by law, as the police must know what they enforce.

Without considerable legal clarity alongside the new slogan, the already slippery path to casual criminalisation is carelessly steepened.
If you haven’t already seen this excellent guide for the public & the police, @Kirsty_Brimelow and @PippaWoodrow have produced this excellent cut-out-and-keep guide to the current coronavirus legislation. Will it need to change again?
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It seems that the govt’s “whatever it takes” philosophy stops at the door of Brexit ideology.

And, just when we need trust in our govt’s competence most, this demonstrates any trust is misplaced because they can’t seem to understand, well, priorities and common sense.
Publish the economic impact reports of this Brexit, by sector, so any small percentage of the public worried about any Brexit delay, instead of the pandemic, can see the reasons.

Transparency, accountability & competence are basic hallmarks of good leadership. Never mind now.
It gets worse.

The govt has the front to argue that it needs independence to manage coronavirus - having failed to secure PPE or join our neighbours in procuring medical supplies, plucky Britain must go it alone. There is something very wrong at the top.
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