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14 May, 6 tweets, 2 min read
🚨The travel regulations have been completely replaced - last thing on Friday before they come into force on Monday

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/582/…
I have no idea if they are substantially different or not - the explanatory note is extremely sparse!

I'm not going to be able to spend the next hour reading the 91 pages for you I'm afraid!
Interestingly, there has been no amendment yet to the Steps regulations to put the country into Step 3 from Monday, or to get rid of the "reasonable excuse" requirement for foreign travel. This is either coming shortly or the govt is going to delay it.
The hotel quarantine rules (Schedule 11) look more or less the same as before but devil will be in the detail. This is not the way to do law making. No idea why the old regulations have been replaced, and millions of people these will effect will not be able to find out either
By the way, I'm cooking shabbat dinner now so I really am not going to be doing an analysis - as much as I would love to! Will do so over the weekend and before they come into force on Monday at 4am (-:
Also I just spent two days drafting grounds of claim based on what are about to the the old regulations so thanks government you win again

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13 May
I was involved in a campaign at my university to stop David Irving coming to speak, which was successful. It would have been utterly ridiculous (indeed, grotesque) he had been compensated for being disinvited.
I think there are complex issues around freedom of speech and speech which is not illegal, but I am confident those issues are better dealt with on the ground then by some government quango which has been expressly set up to protect particular political viewpoints
The particular example of David Irving is instructive. It was not clear cut that he would be disinvited (indeed, he was reinvited a 2 years later), but there was a thoughtful campaign and debate. There was no attempt to involve law which is not always the sharpest tool in the box
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Looking forward to Sir James Eadie QC bowling up at Basingstoke County Court to make this application
(If this is a private matter then the government legal department and treasury counsel should not be acting for the PM)
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The Prime Minister has confirmed that "Step 3" restrictions will come into force, as expected, from Monday 17 May. Short summary in the thread below (which also explains the context).

You can find the law here: legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/364/…
And guidance here: gov.uk/government/pub…
What you won't find in the regulations is the "you can now hug" rule - that's because the recommendation against hugging has been part of social distancing guidance, not law.

But we are now all so hopelessly confused about the difference that I forgive you
What is really important is that I can from Monday update my thread on the indoor 'sex ban' - a real ban, illegal - for people who don't live together and aren't in a linked household, in place in some parts of the UK for well over a year!

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Would it be contrary to Article 6 ECHR to find someone in contempt of court + send to prison (or fine) and have no right of review or appeal?
I deal with contempt of court cases fairly regularly (as it happens in the environmental protest context) and there are strong appeal rights from the High Court - you don't need permission and legal aid generally available. Supreme Court (v unusual procedure) has no clear...
... right of appeal. I am being a bit lazy by not looking up whether in certain circumstance lack of appeal right might be a breach of Article 6 ECHR (right to fair trial), I do recall reading somewhere there is no right of appeal in Art 6, but contempt interesting jurisdiction
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Since posting this I have received many messages from people in similar positions - stuck in hotel quarantine after clear medical evidence given to the 'exemptions team' that they cannot safely be there. Can I encourage journalists/parliamentary committees to look at this issue?
This is the issue
I am concerned the 'exemptions team' are refusing many requests which they should not, in law, refuse - where there is compelling medical evidence that a person cannot safely be held in hotel quarantine because that would exacerbate a condition, they should never be refusing.
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Now Turkey has been added to the “red list“ anyone who travels there has to hotel quarantine for 10 days upon return.

But in any case it would currently be illegal for fans to travel there for a football match as that wouldn’t be a ‘reasonable excuse’ bbc.co.uk/sport/football…
You have to have a ‘reasonable excuse’ to travel outside of the UK at present. That will change, I assume, for ‘green list’ counties and maybe ‘amber’ but won’t I imagine for red list legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/364/…
It is currently a reasonable excuse for elite sportspersons and coaches to travel abroad
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