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Nov 9 • 11 tweets • 9 min read
1/10 How to transform procedural rights from illusory safeguards to practical guarantees: by empowering those who need them the most, starting w/ stronger awareness. Great case study here:@EachOtherUK & @BIDdetention will turn 63 page legal guide into comic book (& need our help) Image
2/10 They're crowdfunding here, and have achieved $7381 so far, out of a pledged $29,025: kickstarter.com/projects/eacho…
3/ As they note, "at any one time in the UK, there are around 2,000 people held in immigration removal centres across the UK" and "people held in immigration detention can be kept there for anything from a few days to years".
4/ During the course of a year, roughly 28,000 people are detained using immigration powers in an immigration removal centre (across the seven immigration removal centres in the UK).
5/ Bail for Immigration Detainees (@BIDdetention) produces a self-help guide to support people to get out of immigration detention on bail, and has done so for 20 years. ImageImageImage
6/ Since 2005, a hard copy of the guide must be stocked in the library of each immigration removal centre (IRC) in the UK, according to the UK Immigration Service's Detention Operating Standards Manual.
7/ @BIDdetention will now collaborate with @EachOtherUK, and five incredible graphic artists, to convert the 63-page legal guide created by BID into a roughly 40-page comic book. ImageImage
8/ Jon Sack, who has worked with @eachother before on its documentary about school exclusions, will be the main person working to convert the legal text. Image
9. You can be part of this project by making a range of donations. ImageImage
10. I must add that I am an @EachOtherUK Trustee and very proud in the energy, commitment and creativity they have put into this project.
#Immigration #detention #Rwanda #refugees
Please spread the word: @AdamWagner1 @BarristerSecret @ColinYeo1 @freemovementlaw @migrants_rights @GoldsmithsUoL @FCorner @BevanMiranda @UKHRights @EdBatesECHR @CliveSSmith @yvonnedaly @fredacowell @conorgearty @RazaHusainQC @_lesliethomas @gardencourtlaw @LioraLazarus

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Nov 11
Thanks @JoshuaRozenberg for sharing.Others already commented on Sir Peter Goss's views on the futility/counter-intuitiveness of Raab's BoR, and lack of evidence basis (which followed on not listening to expert evidence).I want to focus on Sir Peter's points on judicial dialogue🧵
2. His Review Panel (IHRAR) "was struck by the high regard in which the UK Courts and Judiciary are held by the ECtHR and the beneficial influence this has, both domestically and for the ECtHR".
3. The ECtHR has welcomed the “mature equilibrium” reached with UK Courts, which "neither means nor requires that UK Courts and the Strasbourg Court always agree", and which entails "mutual respect bringing mutual benefit".
Not quite @DailyMailUK's narrative, one would argue. Image
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Oct 28
1. My new book – with the wonderful Prof Yvonne McDermott, on Judicial Independence Under Threat – is now out, and we could not be more grateful to all those who made it happen: @BritishAcademy_ @OUPAcademic & our distinguished authors.
It includes foreword by late Brian Kerr! Image
2. We were thrilled when Lord Kerr agreed to participate in our 2018 @BritishAcademy_ conference (which provided the foundation for this volume). We were touched by the modesty, openness and kindness he had showed to us since then.
3. We have very fond memories of being in his company during the pre-conference dinner at the @TheInnerTemple (and remain to this day very thankful to the Inn too, for its warm support of our conference).
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Oct 19
At @matrixchambers, with two of our students, and two of our Visiting Profs in panel, @JMPSimor KC and Schona Jolly KC @WomaninHavana, on the ‘Brexit Freedoms Bill’.
Jessica Simor starts by noticing how this Bill will result in a vast handover of power to the executive. ImageImage
2. What is Law for? Law must strive to create legal certainty (and this Bill will achieve the exact opposite of that),
@JMPSimor notes, and Sir Jonathan Jones KC, former Head of the Govt Legal Dept, reinforces the point in his speech. Image
3. This Bill will “set fire to legal certainty”, says @WomaninHavana, taking examples from Employment law and pointing how we continue to rely on EU law for critical parts of that, e.g. equal pay provisions that women have drawn upon. Image
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Jun 13
Left speechless — Prof Richard Ekins has written (in the @MailOnline) that the Human Rights Act "is a blot on our democracy".
#ECHR @coe #HumanRights @OxfordLawFac @PACE_News @judicialpwr
2. @DavidGHFrost, whose key affiliation (according to Twitter) is now Senior Fellow at @Policy_Exchange, says it's 'a powerful article'
#ECHR #humanrights #echr
3. Prof Ekins: "For the Human Rights Act invites lawyers, individuals and lobby groups who are unhappy with government policies to try to undermine them by mounting challenges in the courts."
And this is wrong in a liberal democracy why exactly?
#ECHR #humanrights @coe
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Jun 13
Govt is introducing a Bill that (a large number of) its own MPs are saying is going to violate international law.
Bill not dictated by national interest (in fact it undermines it).
Only comes in so that PM will 'shore up his support on Right of the party' after confidence vote
2. Bill will be sold to the MPs on the Right of the party—and Brexiteer voters—wrapped in the usual anti-juridical, anti-European, narrative: "European judges to be stripped of Northern Ireland Protocol powers under new Brexit law"
3. This is the anti-human rights narrative too. Many will confuse 'European judges' for those in Strasbourg. The attack on the European Court of Human Rights is of course alive and well in the UK.
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May 10
"HM's government will play a leading role in defending democracy and freedom across the world".
HM's government will repeal the Human Rights Act.
#Queenspeech #HumanRights #HumanRightsAct
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The Govt have gone to the @coe and rightly pleaded with them to expel Russia, for gross human rights violations in Ukraine.
Yet the Govt has now also formally announced its plans to substitute the HRA with a UK Bill of Rights (and undermine the operation of the ECHR in the UK).
@coe 3. Contradictions and sheer hypocrisy from the Govt, Baroness @SarahLudford: "HMG will ensure the Constitution is defended". Defended against whom? The Judiciary, deploying human rights, to protect it?
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