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Quitters never win: the problems with leaving the ECHR
A copy of a piece by me for Labour List
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A doomed enterprise: the Policy Exchange attempt to claim that the UK can leave the ECHR without breaching the Good Friday Agreement
A copy of a post earlier today on the Society of Labour Lawyers Substack
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This blog and the Society of Labour Lawyers blog
How I'm going to operate this blog in the light of the SLL blog
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The first time as tragedy, the second as farce
Suella Braverman's plans for leaving the ECHR display the same arrogant and reckless disregard for the consequences - particularly in Ireland - as did…
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Attacked by the seer of Barnard Castle
Dominic Cumming’s strange attack on my views.
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The Labour Case for the ECHR
Some thoughts on the (in my view doomed) attempt to construct a Labour case for leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Making a case for Human Rights Law: a response to Conor Casey’s “Disagreeing over Human Rights Law”
Conor Casey’s article makes an important point that supporters of the ECHR need to bear in mind when trying to persuade others that the UK should remain…
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Thoughts on UK and EU law, politics and government and how they all relate to each other. The law will mainly be from my practice areas (regulation; public law; trade and EU-related): the politics will be broadly Labour.
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