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Sorry there has been no @BHumanPodcast this week - it has been absolutely manic doing them weekly since beginning of the Covid crisis and I needed a break! Absolutely brilliant episode coming on Monday about detention monitoring, recorded in part before and after the crisis hit
It's great because (selfishly) I learned a lot from doing it and it's an interview with people who spend their time volunteering to go into prisons and make sure they are human rights compliant.
If you have missed the podcast (or just generally find it useful) please consider chipping in a few £ per month via patreon.com/betterhuman
Podcast is self-funded and the more people give, the more I can do!
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Adam Wagner
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Afraid to say this is correct.

I can't believe I'm about to tweet this.

From tomorrow sex between two (or more) people in a private place who do not live in the same household is a "gathering" between 2 or more people and is therefore illegal. ImageImage
Unless
- to avoid harm
- for work purposes (I know)
- to private care or assistance to a vulnerable person
- to provide emergency assistance ImageImageImage
And the strange things about these regulations is the list of reasonable excuses has become exhaustive, which means unless it's on the list it can't be a reasonable excuse.

Not sure how human rights compliant this is, seems pretty blunt with little wriggle room Image
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The Amendment Regulations are here - made today (!) and laid before Parliament tomorrow morning at 11:30am
legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/558/…
The lockdown regulations have changed very significantly:
- No more prohibition on leaving the place you are living or being outside of it without a "reasonable excuse"
- Regulation 6 replaced by prohibition on staying over somewhere without a reasonable excuse
To be clear - from tomorrow
- he police can no longer get involved with why you are outside of the place you are living.
- No more power to direct people back home
- no more power to fine for leaving/being outside of home without reasonable excuse
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It is an essential element of the rule of law that people are able to know what is and isn't against the law so they can decide how to behave within the law.

It's very bad that the lockdown guidance has changed but the law, 14 hours before the guidance comes into force, has not
Responding to the good point by @RobinShipston that the change to the guidance should provide a reasonable excuse - it's not actually reg 6 which is the issue it's reg 7 which currently criminalises any gathering over 2 people not from same household
It's entirely possible that the amendments to the regulations (which the government has been passing with no parliamentary debate or vote) has already happened but not been published - this is still very bad
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