legislation and law making

4 min read 2022-05-19 19:36:59

Four possible consequences of Partygate

19th May 2022 Partygate, again. Today the Metropolitan Police announced the end of their investigation. This means that, in small part, the Partygate

5 min read 2022-05-11 00:55:59

10th May 2022 Today it was announced in the Queen’s Speech that there will be a “Bill of Rights”. Some are alarmed at this proposal – and

4 min read 2022-04-27 20:34:20

27th April 2022 Yesterday’s I newspaper had this interesting front page about the upcoming Queen’s Speech: The article supporting the front page

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21st April 2022 Well. Those were an interesting few days in parliament. We went from a government bullishly seeking to block the prime minister being

2 min read 2022-04-20 00:27:03

19th April 2022 There was once a Scottish MP whose probing gave rise to the ‘West Lothian question’ – named after his constituency. Now the

2 min read 2022-04-12 01:31:41

11th April 2022 How could it be allowed, I was asked, for someone with a Green Card and who was married to a Non Dom to be a member of the

3 min read 2022-03-23 02:34:10

22nd March 2022 Sometimes I give blogposts the wrong titles. Yesterday, the post here had the title: Is there a SLAPP problem in the English

4 min read 2022-03-21 19:30:21

21st March 2022 SLAPP – strategic litigation against public participation – is a new-ish name for an age-old problem. Here is L. Ron Hubbard in

3 min read 2022-03-19 00:10:04

18th March 2022 One of the areas of focus of this blog is what I call the ‘accountability gap’ – that is the lack of genuine accountability in

1 min read 2022-02-17 01:35:05

16th February 2022 There are two ways by which those with public power will act lawfully. The first is self-restraint: that ministers and officials

2 min read 2022-02-04 21:25:03

4th February 2022 The constitution of the United Kingdom is a strange thing. As a matter of constitutional theory, it hands a Prime Minister with a

2 min read 2022-02-02 01:05:36

1st February 2022 Today the speaker of the House of Commons said he would like parliament to be “nice”. For this, and for insights generally,

5 min read 2021-12-08 17:23:00

8th December 2021 The Downing Street Christmas party story is a good example of an incident that can be looked at in a legal, a policy and a

1 min read 2021-11-17 18:53:58

17th November 2021 Yesterday the prime minister of the United Kingdom met the prime minister of Greece and, according to a Downing Street media

1 min read 2021-11-16 16:30:05

16th November 2021 Corruption is more a political than a legal term – at least in the law of the United Kingdom. For instance: there are no current