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Jessica Simor KC Profile picture
@JMPSimor
Jun 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
This is a fascinating read (albeit a university essay in structure and style) - much of it written by Cummings no doubt. If only we knew nothing of its authors, it might fill one with hope. That said, the saving souls bit is a step too far (& the’people’s govt ‘, Soviet sinister) ImageImage
Because of what we know about recent government spending: shipping company with no ships, pesticide company supplying masks, dodgy non-existent contract for masks from Turkey, contract for failed app, purchase of dodgy satellite company etc etc etc, this does not bode well. ImageImageImage
And this is Cummings 2014. ImageImageImage
I think the most difficult thing for me in this speech is the blindness he shows to his own role in the creation of division, nationalism and populism in the UK to the detriment of those he purports to care about. Image

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I was privileged to act for EHRC in HJ v Iran . The SC accepted the EHRC's submission that one's sexuality is integral to one's identity & hiding it to avoid persecution amounts to a fear persecution. 1/ supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uks…
Persecution has a specific meaning, which is properly applied by the UK Courts. It is not the same as discrimination and never has been (see last tweet in thread for Lord Hope on this). Image
The signatories to the Refugee Convention would not have recognised persecution of homosexuality because well after the Nazis they perpetrated it themselves. In the UK Alan Turing was chemically castrated in 1952...and homosexual acts were not decriminalised until decades later.
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There are two barristers promoting the idea that the PoC was not fair because it did not meet the same standards as a judicial body. This is to miss the key point that the PoC is not a court; it is not applying legislation enacted by Parliament & applicable to everyone. 1/
It is Parliament acting as a sovereign body, controlling the conduct of its own members according to its own rules & standards. That is its prerogative, which cannot be questioned in any court: Art 9 Bill of Rights. 2/
That is why Pannick’s Opinion as to what criminal contempt would require in the courts in respect of conduct by any member of the public was irrelevant as regards the conduct of an MP/the PM - and dismissed as such by the PoC legal adviser 3/
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Apr 24, 2023
@mrjamesob The National Conservatism Conference is being held in London between 15-17 May: nationalconservatism.org/natcon-uk-2023/
@mrjamesob National Conservatism and the conference is supported by the Edmund Burke Foundation: nationalconservatism.org/people/
This seems essentially to be a US foundation.
@mrjamesob It's Chair is burke.foundation/people/yoram-h…
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Feb 27, 2023
This is an “Enemies of the People” statement by the Home Secretary and in breach of her duties as a Minister under s. 3 of the CRA 2005 & the Ministerial Code. Will the Lord Chancellor @DominicRaab discharge his statutory duty & hold her to account?
legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/4/c…
Now the MPs ride in to add fuel to the fire lit by Braverman. I cannot stress how dangerous this is. MPs should understand the basics of the rule of law. They should respect it. They should not stoke hatred - nor try and undermine the judiciary.
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Oct 27, 2022
This is a very good sign. The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022 is both dangerous & deeply unserious - frivolous even (naive if one's being kind). Performative law making that is likely to cause chaos and yet more unforced errors.
EU law became part of domestic law from 1973 by virtue of Parliament enacting the EC Act 1972. Technically, there was from that date no such thing as "EU law". That term remained, however, as a shorthand to delineate the applicable legal rules, both procedural and substantive.
In reality, though there is no strict separation. For example, states decide how to implement directives. In the UK this was often done in the context of wider purely domestic legislative objectives, including by Ministers exercising powers under other Acts apart from EC Act 1972
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