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10 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The purpose of the report, by Nigel Boardman, is "to prepare a defence of claims for Judicial Review relating to the award of two contracts": those judicial reviews are the Public First contract and the Hanbury contract, both of which @GoodLawProject is challenging by way of JR.
Our crowdfunder for those judicial review claims - together with much of the documentation - is here.
crowdjustice.com/case/a-river-t…
First postscript, back in the day when he was a very grand partner in the blue blood law firm of Slaughter & May I worked as a legal secretary to Nigel Boardman.
Second postscript, we have been asked for a comment by The Times. We are not giving any comment to The Times on this or any other matter for so long as its relentless baiting of the trans community continues. #StopFundingHate #StopSupportingHate

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13 Dec
If you look at the evidence - including from the UK - it tells you that allowing gender incongruent children and teenagers to 'affirm' in their chosen gender reduces suicide risks. Strip away all the sound and the fury and what last week's judgment means is more cases like this.
Of course, any fair judicial process would have heard from trans children/young adults about the benefits of puberty blockers. But the Divisional Court, in a manner I am still shocked by today, declined to hear from any voice representing their interests.
Puberty blockers are used throughout the world. They are used because transgender teenagers overwhelmingly 'affirm' and unless you arrest their puberty you cruelly force them to live a life where their body - eg an adam's apple, a deep voice - is incongruent with their gender.
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13 Dec
A short history of @GoodLawProject's involvement with Brexit.

In late June 2016 we launched the case that eventually established that Parliamentary authorisation was needed to trigger Article 50. ft.com/content/52e562…
In December 2017 we launched the case that a year later established that the United Kingdom could unilaterally revoke Article 50 if it wanted, defeating the UK Government, the EU Council and the EU Commission.

Here's me writing about that case. ft.com/content/3a0238…
In July 2019, we brought litigation that ultimately led to the Supreme Court ruling Johnson's suspension of Parliament - perhaps the most shameful ever act of the modern British state - unlawful. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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12 Dec
Hard to avoid the conclusion that Johnson's £100bn Moonshot is a huge white elephant.
"They're putting in place an intervention that hasn't been evaluated, will possibly do more harm and will cost a lot of money."
"Media reports had claimed that as few as 4% of residents in poorer areas were coming forward, but the government said that it was too early to say for sure if that was the case."
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11 Dec
Here's a story for your Friday night. I've been wanting to get the documents to back it up but I don't think they're going to come so you'll just have to take from me that it comes from an impeccable source with no reason to lie.
I totally believe it's true - every word of it - and I'm putting it in the public domain because there might be just about enough for an actual, talented journalist to bottom it out. And bottoming it out is profoundly in the public interest.
So back in the very early days of the pandemic - February or March - a company (X) was given a very large PPE contract. X could reasonably claim to be a proper PPE supplier. The contract was signed and X started shipping the PPE to the UK.
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10 Dec
Will any of the key figures who pushed Brexit - and now No Deal - be touched by higher food prices or job losses? Is there even one who will be affected by the reality of what they are visiting upon those they misled?
All very well banging on about sovereignty. But, to paraphrase Brecht, first give us bread.
Only for the elite does Maslow's hierarchy begin with sovereignty.
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10 Dec
Pleased to be on the front page of @FT talking about the regulatory arbitrage baked in to the business models of platform businesses.
These platforms, undoubtedly, produce real world efficiencies. But those efficiencies are insufficient to support the valuations attached to them - they are supercharged with the fruits of rule dodging or "regulatory arbitrage".
This rule dodging is not just about VAT. It's also about worker protection, corporation tax, product safety, employment taxes and so on. The business models of these platforms erode these public goods to enrich private investors.
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