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Sep 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Have had a quick look at the thread and videos. Seems pretty simple to me - if the police consider that the Standing for Women does not fall within the "protest" exception for the rule of six regulations because they aren't a political body then they are wrong /1
The exception is in Regulation 5(3)(i)

"gathering is for the purposes of protest and—

(i)it has been organised by a business, a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution, a public body, or a political body" /2

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/684/…
"Political body" is defined elsewhere in a different law (unhelpfully, how are people meant to follow this?) Is *very* wide.

It includes a "political campaigning organisation" which is any legal person which "promote, or oppose, changes in any law"

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/649/… /3
Don't forget that just being a political body isn't the end of the question of whether you fit into the exception. You also have to comply with 5G which means doing a risk assessment and following govt social distancing guidance. But that wasn't the issue here as far as I know /4
This is the description of the organisation which sounds like it falls squarely within the definition of a 'political body'. Worrying to see the police restricting protest in this way. I haven't looked at their own guidance but I'm guessing it sets this out /5

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The Divisional Court has ruled that the Government acted unlawfully and irrationally when deciding not to implement the full funding recommendation in Lord Bellamy’s Criminal Legal Aid Review.

I had the rare honour of acting for my professional colleagues, Criminal Law Solicitors Association (@CrimeSolicitors) and the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association (@lccsa), the Interested Parties in the case. Their press release is below.Image
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The amount of work which went into putting the case together and presenting the oral arguments, and standing up for the rule of law, was extraordinary - a credit to the profession.
Together with the Law Society, the CLSA and the LCCSA provided the Court with a large number of witness statements from solicitors up and down the country, at every level of seniority, describing the relentless, physically demanding and emotionally draining nature of criminal defence work and the chronic underfunding which has led to a crisis in the retention of solicitors who are leaving in their droves for better pay and conditions that can be found elsewhere.

The Government response to the Criminal Legal Aid Review utterly failed to grasp the extent of the crisis. Despite the review recommending a 15% increase to solicitors fees as “no more than a minimum starting point”, it increased fees by only 9% with a further 2% promised this year.

The ruling today confirms that the Government response to the review was so flawed as to be unlawful and irrational.

In today’s ruling Lord Justice Singh and Mr Justice Jay described the evidence we submitted from our members alongside the Law Society as “a mass of convergent evidence from honest, professional people working up and down the country”, which is “cogent”, “impressive” and “compelling”, and which “brings home [that] women and men working up and down the country at all hours of the day and night, in difficult and stressful circumstances, carrying out an essential service which depends to a large extent on their goodwill and sense of public duty”.
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Dec 6, 2023
It begins inauspiciously
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“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ Image
Notwithstadingy clause Image
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Nov 15, 2023
Some very public-facing comments by Lord Reed in the opening of his summary of the judgment:

- Policy is not that the UK will process asylum claims whilst people are in Rwanda, Rwanda will process them (despite the former often being claimed)
- The non-refoulement principle is contained in a number of treaties not just the European Convention on Human Rights and Human Rights Act
Prediction is a mug's game but if I were giving a public judgment rejecting the government's appeal this is how I would begin it!
This is a beautifully clear summary of the relevant legal principles. A model of its form - plain English, focussed on the public
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Jul 27, 2023
The Home Secretary acted unlawfully by accommodating, since December 2021, thousands of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels. Kent Council also acted unlawfully in passing on responsibility for them.

https://t.co/sFYZqVHJogjudiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…
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A judgment suffused with humanity, legal rigour and common sense from Mr Justice Chamberlain, starting from changing the parties' preferred acronym to emphasise the human element.

Judgment:
Summary: https://t.co/cMXxZJdw4a https://t.co/bGdb6svfNSjudiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…
judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…
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The first paragraph is great too - is Martin Chamberlain the unlikely inheritor to Lady Hale? Simple language, child rights focussed, legally spot on Image
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Jun 29, 2023
The House of Commons Privileges Committee has reported on the conduct of MPs who impugned 'the integrity of that Committee and its members' and attempted 'to lobby or intimidate those members or to encourage others to do so'

Implies that the members are in contempt and asks… https://t.co/P9WRXWMOOPtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…






This is the suggestion of contempt based on Erskine May (the Parliamentary procedure bible) - which I think is quite convincing. The comments of members about the Privileges Committee being essentially corrupted were very arguably over the line
One point which I think was striking about the MPs who criticised the report is none of them seemed to point to any particular finding they disagreed with. They just went for the committee and the individuals on it.
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Jun 15, 2023
Here is is the full Privileges Committee report
committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…
Clean sweep - not sure what else they could have found against him Image
The Committee really aren't messing around. Image
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