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11 Jul, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Thinking back to the semi-final of Italia 90 when my parents wouldn’t let me watch the second half and I watched it on a fuzzy tv with no ariel. My kids are watching tonight (if they don’t fall asleep!)
I have convinced my daughter that one of the rituals of watching a big football match is going crisp shopping, so we are doing that this afternoon
We also went shopping for little plastic England flags and my daughter said, with amazing perspicacity, “daddy this is your dream and your nightmare all at once”
Still trying to figure out exactly what she meant
And now my children have experienced that exquisitely English feeling of watching England lose a penalty shootout. The torch passes ever onwards!

Great tournament - this team is a class act. Will go from strength to strength 👏 👏 👏

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5 Jul
It really will be a huge change on 19 July if legal social distancing restrictions are lifted.

Will be the first time since 26 March 2020 that there have been no legal social distancing requirements - e.g. group socialising limits

That is 480 days
It does sound like some legal duties will remain:

1. Self-isolation for people who come into contact with a positive case, though it sounds like this will be different to current rules
2. Travel self-isolation and hotel quarantine
Interestingly:

"there will be no Covid certificate required to attend events or venues"

So domestic 'covid passports' are a non-starter (though they have been tried for big events this summer along with negative tests)
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1 Jul
Police breached 'fundamental rights' at Sarah Everard and Kill the Bill protests, parliamentary inquiry finds news.sky.com/story/police-b…
Here is the full report

Finds multiple serious failings in the way that police handled Clapham Common vigil and Bristol protest

A common finding was police applied a “presumption of illegality” and did not properly account for the right to protest

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Accuses the police of using disproportionate and excessive force at the events.
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30 Jun
One thing that I have been saying for a long time is that the problem of making laws by ministerial decree is that it makes them far more open to corruption. I don’t necessarily mean corruption in the sense of people enriching themselves (though that may have happened!)…
… I mean the banality of everyday corruption. The evidence with the Covid regulations is how many times exceptions seems to have been made for “friends of the government”. The exception for grouse shooting, for foreign travel to buy a property, the exception now to…
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29 Jun
A lot of parents are asking me whether if a school tells your child to self isolate there is a legal duty for them to do so (meaning that you could be given a fixed penalty notice or charged with an offence if you do not comply)
I am actually going to change what I said in the original thread - an be a bit less equivocal. I think that it is entirely possible that the legal duty to self isolate and would be triggered as school could be engaged by a local authority in communicable disease control. Image
As with all things Covid regulations, the answer is not particularly clear!
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25 Jun
I appreciate some will see the Hancock story as a private affair - but there is an important question of whether the Health Secretary broke his own lockdown laws

As I explain 👇🏼, private indoor meetings between people not living together were unlawful for most of the past year
The Sun photo was apparently taken on 3 May, when lockdown was in Step 2.

Gatherings of 2 or more indoors were illegal except for permitted purposes

One purpose was "work" which would cover being together at work but arguably not for this purpose

Were they meeting up before this? The Sun suggests they were.

If they were at work, they might argue this fell within the work exception but I think - especially for Health Secretary - that's not a good argument.

If they went elsewhere to meet up, that would clearly be illegal
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23 Jun
Lord Sumption makes a convincing argument in the new Law Quarterly Review that Dolan was wrongly decided and use of the Public Health Act to impose lockdowns was contrary to the principle of legality

It's behind a paywall so I can't post a direct link sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Product/Academ…
I'll post this though

He may be right. I wonder if time will tell? Hard to see this issue going back in front of the Supreme Court but maybe
Oh and this
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