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George Peretz KC šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦šŸŒ¹ Profile picture
George Peretz KC šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦šŸŒ¹
@GeorgePeretzKC
Views mine & not those of my chambers. Account now passive. For content find me at šŸ¦‹https://t.co/JBSSIUp0yC.
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Jul 31 ā€¢ 18 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
I would expect @LegatumInst (well-funded, with large anonymous donations supplemented by taxpayer subsidy) to get basic facts right. Thread. 1. It is incorrect to say that mobility arrangements are an "EU competence". Plenty of EU member states have mobility agreements with third countries.
Jun 21 ā€¢ 8 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
This is poor from @rcolville, who should know better. To show why itā€™s poor, all I need to do is to refer him to a few paragraphs of the judgment setting out what was the legal issue that @UKSupremeCourt had to resolve.
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Jun 21 ā€¢ 14 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
Apart from its silly click-bait title, this by @LegatumInst is unimpressive. The šŸ˜ in the room that it fails to confront (though sometimes hints at): that companies operate in a world where the public expects them to uphold standards in conduct and recruitment and they will suffer *commercially* if they donā€™t.
Jun 12 ā€¢ 14 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
Others - see eg - have dealt with the ā€œno big negative impactā€ claim here (and it isnā€™t ā€œassumeā€: itā€™s looking at the evidence and applying standard analysis). But a couple of points on ā€œand so little use has been made of the opportunities [Brexit] offersā€
The current government has taken - in rafts of legislation since 2019 - enormous powers to change EU regulatory rules. That was so even before the Retained EU Law Act (REULA) gave them even greater powers to do so, largely without needing to involve Parliament.
May 18 ā€¢ 9 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
The concerns set out by @GeorgeMonbiot here have powerful and authoritative backing from the 2022 @CMAgovUK report into childrenā€™s care. Its conclusion:
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Apr 19 ā€¢ 17 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
Some brief comments on the European Commissionā€™s proposal to get a mandate to negotiate a youth mobility agreement with the UK. ec.europa.eu/commission/preā€¦ 1. The EU is not there yet. The mandate has to be agreed by the Council of Ministers: probably by qualified majority. And it isnā€™t clear whether a final agreement would need to be ratified by all Member States as well as the EU itself.
Apr 1 ā€¢ 36 tweets ā€¢ 7 min read
A bit of background on this. (And if you donā€™t want to Ā£ for The Times, the i has the same story here ) independent.co.uk/news/uk/scottiā€¦
See also @scotgovā€™s letter to @DefraGovUK here. gov.scot/publications/gā€¦
Nov 17, 2023 ā€¢ 13 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
Even as realpolitik, this ā€œplanā€ by @Dominic2306 fails. It ignores basic realities. 1. No plan to ā€œstop the boatsā€ (chase them into French waters, destroy them on (French?) shores) or to send refugees who do land here to other countries (safe, because otherwise UK public opinion, let alone law, wonā€™t wear it) works without cooperation of those countries. Esp. šŸ‡«šŸ‡·
Jul 27, 2023 ā€¢ 16 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
Not a serious contribution by @DavidGHFrost, because it produces no serious policy proposal. But a couple of points first. 1. It is of course true that big business (and the professions) can be a bit politically uniform. When I started out in the early 90s, the commercial Bar ( the profession I know best) was pretty much solidly Conservative (and certainly conservative).
Jul 25, 2023 ā€¢ 8 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
Full report Windsor Framework (WF) report by @LordsEUCom Protocol sub-committee here . I will concentrate on areas where I gave evidence to the Committee. https://t.co/eyeHRrgNjncommittees.parliament.uk/publications/4ā€¦
On State aid. I entirely agree with @jamesrwebberā€™s points, made separately. And with the conclusions. The basic point: Art 10 remains a serious issue for any major cross-UK subsidy programme (Green New Deal/pandemic subsidies): in practice it will have to be cleared by the EU.

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Jul 13, 2023 ā€¢ 21 tweets ā€¢ 6 min read
This is a fascinating judgment that contains (in judicial language) pretty savage comments on the governmentā€™s (and in particular Kwasi Kwartengā€™s) decision-making, and on its compliance with the duty of candour. https://t.co/NmPB017j68judiciary.uk/wp-content/uplā€¦
Also some important public law legal points on the duty to consult and whether a court can refuse to quash the decision on the basis that itā€™s highly likely that the result would have been the same without the public law error.
Jun 20, 2023 ā€¢ 13 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
A couple of thoughts about this Bill presented by @michaelgove. publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbillā€¦ The core provision is clause 1(2). Essentially it means that in procurement and investment decisions no public body may be influenced by political or moral disapproval of the conduct of a foreign state. Image
Jun 19, 2023 ā€¢ 5 tweets ā€¢ 1 min read
Quite. Rees-Mogg raised the Pinochet case (perceived bias:Lord Hoffmann should have recused himself). The precedent is false anyway (obviously: since this is an MP process and no MP can be immune from perception of bias to another MP).
Jun 17, 2023 ā€¢ 10 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
2 points. 1) @SBarrettBar seems to endorse @RockyWasYerā€™s substantive point (not, I trust, the abuse). But the substantive point is hopeless. Image (a) Contempt of Parlt is judged by MPs (as Steven Iā€™m sure agrees, courts have no place here). There is no such thing as an MP who was neutral on Brexit or Johnson. So the call to exclude MPs who were hostile to him is in fact a call for him to be judged only by his admirers.
Jun 16, 2023 ā€¢ 19 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
This is hopeless as a defence of Johnson or critique of the PC report. A šŸ§µ. A finding that someone deliberately lied necessarily involves finding that they believed that what they said was untrue.
Jun 16, 2023 ā€¢ 10 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
I agreed with @LabourList to do a piece on reform of the House of Lords some weeks ago, but Johnsonā€™s resignation dishonours list was a well-timed hook for it. labourlist.org/2023/06/boris-ā€¦: and gave me chance to quote my favourite Robbie Burns. The current 2nd chamber is impossible to justify in democratic terms: but in the last decades, since the hereditary peers were removed, it has found a very important role in detailed scrutiny of legislation that the Commons just doesnā€™t - largely for structural reasons - do.
Jun 15, 2023 ā€¢ 4 tweets ā€¢ 1 min read
Quite. Reminds me of what I said over 3 years ago.
Jun 15, 2023 ā€¢ 11 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
A personal reflection. I first came across Johnson at Oxford when I was 18. I didnā€™t know him at all well, but well enough to form a judgment. My 18/19 year old self would have been astonished that a person with his character could become Prime Minister.
Jun 15, 2023 ā€¢ 7 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
The key point is what you want the 2nd chamber to do. If its purpose is to do the job of detailed revision and scrutiny of complex legislation that MPs (for all sorts of good/understandable reasons) donā€™t do, then a 2nd chamber made up of more elected politicians isnā€™t the answer Rather, you need to concentrate on sorting out the problems with the current appointment system (eg PM patronage verging on corruption/appointment for life/too many peers/hereditary peers and bishops).
Jun 14, 2023 ā€¢ 4 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
Thereā€™s quite a bit wrong with this article by @SBarrettBar. spiked-online.com/2023/06/13/borā€¦ But one striking feature is its treatment of Lord Pannick KC - who is said to have ā€œwarnedā€ and ā€œadvisedā€ the Committee, but been ā€œignoredā€. Image Now, I yield to none in my admiration for Lord Pannick as a lawyer and advocate (I bear the scars, having lost to him, twice.) But when he makes submissions for any client, he is not giving his own view: he is making the best possible case he can for his client.
May 10, 2023 ā€¢ 12 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
Like Lapland in June, there wonā€™t be a sunset. Welcome though this is, the statement still indicates that the current government wants to fiddle around with the way in which law deriving from the EU is interpreted (in its language ā€œend the supremacy and special status of retained EU lawā€).