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Mar 9, 2023 12 tweets 2 min read
Johnson, Truss and Sunak regard compliance with law as optional. They are dangerously undermining the UK’s fundamental commitment to the rule of law. Once that commitment is lost, the most fundamental check on government has gone. The Northern Irish protocol Bill broke the legal commitments the UK govt had made in the Withdrawal Treaty with the EU, and subsequently incorporated into domestic law. The ‘necessity’ defence was, as every international law expert acknowledged, laughable (Braverman was AG).
Jan 22, 2023 20 tweets 4 min read
Central to the disagreement between Holyrood and the UK Government on Gender Recognition is the extent to which self identification as the basis of a Gender Recognition Certificate puts women and girls at risk from predators. @KemiBadenoch in her interview in Saturday’s Times identifies that risk as central to the blocking of the Bill. Opponents of the Bill argue that since it permits a GRC to be obtained on the say so of the Applicant it makes fraud and therefore predatory behaviour easier.
Jan 17, 2023 19 tweets 3 min read
The s35 Statement of Reasons has now been published. It identifies 3 sets of reasons why the Sec of State considers the GRR Bill would have an adverse effect on the operation of reserved matter law namely equal opportunities. First because the Scottish GRC will only be recognised in Scotland and therefore someone could be one gender in Scotland and another in the rest of the UK. This could lead to administrative difficulties for example in the administration of benefits.
Aug 18, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
The risk to the Afghan judges from the Taliban is real and immediate. This thread sets out an email the Bar Council has forwarded to me and others from an Afghan judge. I came to read your plea to the UK government for protecting the Afghan judges who are in grave danger right now in Afghanistan. I am a young Afghan judge and extend my gratitude for this kind gesture of yours and appreciate your efforts.
Jul 28, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
Therese Coffey, this morning, didn’t deny PM was a systematic liar. She dismissed the allegation as trivia. Which explains why govt is so hopeless on all areas of domestic policy. Ministers have nothing to fear whether corrupt, hopeless or dishonest. There are no standards. PM regarded Hancock as f******hopeless. Hancock misled the PM and Cab Sec on whether people who were discharged from hospital to care homes had been tested negative , he falsely blamed the Treasury and the NHS for the PPE problem,
Jul 13, 2021 19 tweets 3 min read
The government today just amended an absolute duty on it contained in an Act of Parliament by a motion in the Commons. They did not amend the Act. They simply used their Commons majority to override the law. The law is now contained not in the Act of Parliament but in a Written Ministerial Statement of the Treasury which overrides the Act and is probably enforceable by judicial review.
Aug 20, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
Nick Gibbs, Schools Minister said Dept of Education worked very closely with Ofqual in developing A level and GCSE results model. He defended the direction SoS gave to Ofqual (on 31/3) as lawful, but specifically declined to defend the Ofqual model as lawful. Significant. The direction was the very beginning of the process and was not itself unlawful. It was the model they developed together which was unlawful in 3 respects.
Sep 2, 2019 8 tweets 2 min read
A thread on the effect of the Benn Bill.
Boris said a Corbyn delay would cut his negotiating strategy off at the knees. And he said he would not ask for an extension. The Benn Bill does not require PM to ask for any extension before the end of the Council meeting on 17/10. If he gets a deal which Commons approves by then no need to ask for an extension and no delay. If he fails to get a deal by then he only has to ask for an extension if he fails to get commons approval to crashing out with no deal.
Sep 1, 2019 10 tweets 2 min read
Professor Craig is the Professor of English Law at Oxford. Widely respected on constitutional issues. He has published an article in which he opines that the prorogation is unlawful and the courts can intervene. ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/prorogation-co… He says executive cannot use prerogative power to prorogue Parliament to stop it legislating at all. He says that is a stronger case for court intervention than either De Keyser or Miller where the prerogative power was used to circumvent only one statute in each case.