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Gavin Phillipson
@Prof_Phillipson
Law Professor, Bristol University, all opinions own: free speech, public protest, privacy, ECHR, counter-terror law; platform regulation; UK constitution
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Jan 12, 2022
    Many thanks to the School for putting this together. The article on suspects' privacy rights, the presumption of innocence and the tricky relationship with defamation is open access here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @davidallengreen @JoshuaRozenberg; @pollycurtis; @Haroon_Siddique
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    Jan 12, 2022
    Should suspects be anonymous until charge? New research from @Prof_Phillipson & @RobertCraig3 was repeatedly used to influence a landmark @UKSupremeCourt privacy hearing against financial news giant Bloomberg last month. Find out more in our news item➡️bit.ly/3GpCkxW
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    Privacy, reputation and anonymity until charge: ZXC goes to the Supreme Court
    This article seeks to defend the emergent consensus that suspects should be entitled to anonymity until charge and that the tort of misuse of private information (‘MPI') is the appropriate action t...
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Aug 18, 2019
    A little odd that Johnson and his nutty outriders in the media think that the threat of *the UK* suffering food, fuel and medicine shortages puts pressure on the EU as opposed to on the British Government.
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    Ole Ryborg
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    Aug 18, 2019
    UK faces food, fuel and drugs shortages in no-deal Brexit, according to the UK governments own internal estimations, Sunday Times, reports. The lack of food, medicine an fuel for cars is not a worse case scenario but the most likely, the report says #eudk reuters.com/article/us-bri…
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Aug 28, 2019
    Except it’s not. As the @commonslibrary paper demonstrates, in the last 40 years Parlt has never been prorogued for more than 3 weeks; in most cases for only a week or less. This is not, as @JohnRentoul says a ‘short prorogation’: it’s unprecedented in terms of length and purpose
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Feb 27, 2020
    Another unacceptable by a journalist who has not read or understood a decision and doesn't appear to understand that there is little point Parliament passing laws if Government can ignore legal obligations generated by them when making major decisions.
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    Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧
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    Feb 27, 2020
    ANOTHER unacceptable intervention by a court: Personally, I wish UK was focused on regional airport expansion but democratically accountable politicians, not judges, should be making these big decisions.
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Nov 15, 2023
    Hysterical nonsense. If you even listened to Lord Reed's oral summary just now (let alone read the judgment) you would know that it flows from international law obligations to which the UK has chosen to given effect in domestic law via more than one Act of Parliament.
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    Lord Moylan
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    Nov 15, 2023
    For once I agree with Cummings. This is a full blown constitutional crisis, long in the brewing, as to whether the judiciary or our democracy decides the big issues.
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Jun 23, 2019
    I think Chloe means she’s watched the British Government spend the last 3 years doing little else other then deliver Brexit but being stopped by rebel Conservative MPs who thought it wasn’t the right kind of Brexit.
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Aug 29, 2019
    Queen's consent, like prorogation, Royal Assent, etc all ways in which the UK's democracy is heavily compromised by remnants of royal power and privilege, which lie around like a loaded gun, waited to be picked up and used by unscrupulous Governments, like this one. @carlgardner
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Feb 18, 2022
    My wife yesterday decided to advise all schools in Somerset to close today (she way more important than me) and is now staring out the window a a sunny tho admittedly breezy day in Bristol, muttering ‘where the actual f*ck is this storm?’
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Jun 22, 2022
    Cl 4 of our glorious new Bill of Rights says that free speech must have special importance in many circumstances *but not* against the govt when it’s trying to prosecute, deport, strip your citizenship or injunct you for publishing confidential information.
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Oct 20, 2019
    Replying to @jeff_a_king and @JoshuaRozenberg
    I think the second letter has the obvious purpose of seeking to dissuade EU leaders from granting an extension - as did the phone calls. That frustrates the purpose of the Act which is to seek to obtain an extension.
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Sep 26, 2019
    A reminder for Andrew and other Brexiteers busy rewriting history, that had all ERG and DUP MPs voted for May's deal, instead of repeatedly rebelling against their own Government, the UK would have left the EU on 31 March 2019.
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Apr 19, 2024
    This vividly demonstrates a general point: the police power to arrest an entirely peaceful person (in this case not even a counter-demonstrator) for 'breach of the peace', because of the anticipated violent reaction of *others*. It's a deeply problematic power.
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    Oli London
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    Apr 19, 2024
    Man crossing a London street threatened with arrest for being JEWISH. “You are quite openly Jewish…if you choose to remain here you will be arrested.”
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Mar 1, 2023
    I have a letter in the Times today on how the UK Government might respond if the DUP refuse to resume power-sharing on the basis of the new agreement on the NI Protocol @BristolUniMedia @IanDunt @youngvulgarian @rafaelbehr @StevePeers
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    Gavin Phillipson
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    Apr 4, 2019
    Curious - the Lords are usually threatened with doom should they dare to frustrate the will of the elected Commons. Now they're being threatened for *not* trying to frustrate it?