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Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon has set out the ‘next steps’ in the campaign for Scotland’s independence, including asking the
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The Bill of Rights Bill is framed by the Government as necessary to ensure ‘meaningful democratic oversight’ of human rights protection in the
The British Government has announced its intention to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and replace it with a new Bill of Rights. What will this mean
When the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) was introduced 25 years ago, it was accompanied by a White Paper that proclaimed the Act would ‘bring rights
Less than three years into his premiership, Boris Johnson will (presumably) soon be appointing his third Independent Adviser on Ministers’
Interviewed on LBC, Boris Johnson said that his Government was proposing to legislate in order to make ‘trivial’ changes to the Northern Ireland
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Pix Credit Beijing ReviewI take this opportunity to post for comment a discussion draft recently completed. The essay, Linking People to
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In an expected decision (but with a somewhat unexpected coalition), the U.S. Supreme Court has moved 5 to 4 to vacate an order issued early last
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As you may recall, Nancy Brophy was arrested in 2018 and charged with murdering her husband, a charge that was based on significant evidence other
20th May 2022 Sensible conservative-unionists – and, no, that is not necessarily a contradiction-in-terms – used to abide by the maxim that
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It was a great privilege to have been invited onto the Crossover Podcast hosted by Ricardo Komotar. The topic of our discussion was the
19th May 2022 Partygate, again. Today the Metropolitan Police announced the end of their investigation. This means that, in small part, the Partygate
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I was delighted to be asked to chat with the marvelous Ricardo Kometar about the leak of the draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health
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Akhil Reed Amar, a constitutional scholar and professor at Yale Law School, thoroughly dismantled many of the left's critiques about the leaked
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The Elections Act 2022 – finally law after a long and contentious development in the Commons and the Lords – implements a number of