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Chris McCorkindale

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Public law @Strathclyde Law School; adviser @CEEAC Committee of Scottish Parliament; steering group @Scottish Public Law Group; editor @Edinburgh Law Review; chair @Morton in the Community. https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/mccorkindalechristopherdr/

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · 11d

Yes but you do infamously revel
in your module’s 40% fail rate.

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · 15d

Fast and Furious prequel?

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 23d

Conor Gearty obituary - The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

Conor Gearty obituary

A skilled and persuasive human rights lawyer who fought for civil liberties in the face of over-reaching anti-terror law

www.theguardian.com

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · 27d

Very in keeping with the hormonal teenager on too much red bull tone of anonymous briefings from Labour over the last year.

An absolute golden rule that anyone who says “the grown ups are back in the room” is fundamentally for the watching.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 27d

Whatever you think of these messages, the reality is this story and Paul Ovenden's subsequent resignation has provoked pure fury from long-serving Labour aides. Many saying they do not believe Starmer should have accepted his resignation.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Senior Starmer adviser quits over offensive Diane Abbott messages

Departure of political strategy director Paul Ovenden is yet another setback for PM after Mandelson and Rayner exits

www.theguardian.com

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · Sep 12

The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Sep 12

Really sad to read about this. An impressive figure but also a supportive academic colleague, interesting, nice and always fun company. Will be sorely missed.

Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · Sep 12

Huge, huge loss for the UK legal and political community

www.linkedin.com/posts/cherie...

#conorgearty #humanrights #ruleoflaw #justice #academia #lse #inmemoriam | Cherie Blair CBE KC

💔 I am deeply saddened by the sudden passing of my dear friend and colleague, Professor Conor Gearty. Conor was a man of remarkable intellect—brilliant, principled, endlessly curious, and always gene...

www.linkedin.com

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Aug 30

Well don’t just stand there!!!

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is the future liberals want.

𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · Aug 24

did you know you can just make little bacon sandwiches with sourdough bread and it's perfectly legal

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Aug 16

a man in a blue and white striped shirt is standing in a hallway with 4hd written on the bottom of the screen

ALT: a man in a blue and white striped shirt is standing in a hallway with 4hd written on the bottom of the screen

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Aug 10

*ahem*

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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · Aug 1

This will be terrific:
@bymyong.bsky.social consistently illuminates aspects of the constitution that the rest of us - unjustifiably - ignore

UCL Faculty of Laws @laws.ucl.ac.uk · Jul 31

Announcing an upcoming event as part of our Current Legal Problems lecture series for 2025-26:

📢 Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution
🗣️ Dr Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social
📅 16 October 2025 | 6pm
🏛️ UCL Laws + online
🔗 Book now: tinyurl.com/yz5bnrey

Hybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution

This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26

tinyurl.com

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Aug 2

Jack ❤️

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Jul 29

No good can come of this!

Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Jul 28

@seethingmead.bsky.social Our worlds collide as Billy Davies is made assistant manager (with a fancier title) at Greenock Morton ⚽️

Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Jul 22

The defence rests. And snores as he does so.

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Jul 22

Me and Squire watching the penultimate one now. Well, I’m watching, he’s snoring.

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Jul 22

A minor criticism of Dept Q: if anything it *downplays* just how plush is the Lord Advocate’s office.

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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thomas Horsley: Reforming the UK Internal Market: The UK Government’s Response to the Review of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/21/t...

Thomas Horsley: Reforming the UK Internal Market: The UK Government’s Response to the Review of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020

On 15th July 2025, the UK Government (UKG) published its response to its review and public consultation on Parts 1 and 2 of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (UKIMA). The Response confirm…

ukconstitutionallaw.org

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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · Jul 21

But all that is needed to restore the authority of the Sewel Convention is for good chaps to get along. No risk of bad chap(esse)s getting back into power

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Jul 21

“Under the Sewel Convention, HMG would normally seek devolved consent before legislating on devolved matters or amending devolved competences. But fuck it.”

To be fair to them they manage to spell Sewel correctly two of the three times they reference it.

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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · Jul 15

In other words, the internal market will continue to be a shared regulatory space in which the UK Govt will continue to have the legal upper hand, and devolved autonomy will be constrained by the need for intergovernmental agreement.

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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · Jul 15

As expected, a minimalist approach to UKIMA reform - no statutory change, but improved processes for agreeing exclusions, and a commitment to the Common Frameworks as a mechanism for co-operation.

Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Jul 15

UK Government response to the UKIMA review here:

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686fa1...

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Chris McCorkindale @chrismccork.bsky.social · Jul 15

UK Government response to the UKIMA review here:

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686fa1...

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Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · Jul 15

For #devolution anoraks, the UK Government will today publish a written ministerial statement in @houseofcommons.parliament.uk re. its response to the review of the UK Internal Market Act

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