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5 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Also worth mentioning Lady Justice Rose is the fifth Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court in its 11-year history following Justices Phillips, Neuberger, Dyson, Collins (2 of its 4 Presidents have been Jewish). An amazing achievement for a community of 300,000 people
Lady Justice Rose lit the Chanukah candles in the Temple in 2017 at the little annual event I organise which oddly hasn’t made into her official bio!
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Anyway, this has led me to finding this interesting speech given by Lord Neuberger - this para can now proudly be updated supremecourt.uk/docs/speech-17…
This also reminds me of my favourites Jewish Justice anecdote which is that when Lord Neuberger was made President the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported briefly “Leading rabbi made president of UK Supreme Court“ - confusing him with his sister in law Rabbi Julia Neuberger
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5 Mar
🚨Changes to lockdown and face covering regulations coming into force this Monday 8th just published

The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place and Restrictions: All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/247/…
Brief explanatory note

First important change - to the face covering regulations.

Basically trying to prevent face covering rules being “exercised so as to prevent a voter who is otherwise entitled to vote… from doing so”. What does that mean, exactly?

Sounds pretty circular to me.

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5 Mar
I am supporting this campaign to help the Markaz in Golders Green, a Muslim community centre, to change it terms of use from a Christian community building to a general religious one

(short thread - mixture of sad and hopeful)

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You may think this should be uncontroversial. I met with the leadership of the Markaz in my chambers a while back (they were lovely) and was shocked to hear about the often racist, sometimes far right, opposition to the centre. I told them I would do whatever I could to help.
The opponents have enlisted someone called Gavin Boby to lead their campaign - he self-describes as "the Mosque Buster" and has this racist logo. He prides himself at blocking planning applications for mosques. gavinboby.com
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4 Mar
Some thoughts on the legal and ethical implications of ‘vaccine passports’ (thread)
Vaccine passports are controversial and the govt is reviewing the possibility of their use.

This thread brings together the main arguments for and against and gives sources for further reading.

There will be no “bad or good” answer so if you want that look elsewhere.
I’ll split this into four sections

1. INTRO - WHAT ARE THEY?

A ‘vaccine certificate’ or ‘passport’ is, in the simplest form, a means of proving that a person has been vaccinated. This can be paper or digital.
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1 Mar
I think the only way this could be justifiable is if it is a clever advert for @Baddiel's book. I mean, literally has "Should Jews count" in the title...
There is an interesting debate whether Jews are a religion/ethnicity/ethnicities. In law, being Jewish is both a race and a religion for discrimination, harassment etc. But the framing here - as "will we let Jews be an ethnic minority" is insensitive and historically ignorant
Rather than go into more detail I recommend watching @benjamincohen's interview as he put it really well
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26 Feb
Why is the Shamima Begum judgment troubling?

This is hardly the first time that the courts have said the Secretary of State should be given the benefit of the doubt on judgments national security.

But...
The courts (and the Human Rights Act) are supposed to be a safety net to temper executive power.

And that is particularly important when political decisions are taken at the expense of an individual's rights because the person is unpopular and the decision is therefore popular.
You may say Sajid Javid had only security motives when stripping Begum of her citizenship.

But consider, for a moment, if he did not.

What check and balance is in place to ensure she has a fair chance of revealing that?
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25 Feb
Here is latest data on Fixed Penalty Notices given out under coronavirus regulations from @PoliceChiefs

26,277 fines were processed between 17 January and 14 February (68,952 overall - so 38% of total)

Massive weekly increase over last lockdown

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As before, a large majority given out to younger (under 35) men
19% of Fixed Penalty Notices have been given out to black and minority ethnic people - assume mostly young men as well.
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