I’m sure you’re only trying to write fasciculation…

…which is what happens to my face every time I read an analysis of Farage’s latest shortcomings 😉

I absolutely LOVE that you’ve looked that up! 🙏🏻

Is that your future retirement in a nutshell? 🤪

Side tangent

I’m amused by whenever the US Supreme Court refers to the 1328 Statute of Northampton, when I’ve no idea when an English court last did so

Wow!

The article reminded me of Tim Minchin’s beat poem Storm:

“Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works?”

“Medicine”.

We planned to home birth, until we acknowledged that our lamentable electricity supply couldn’t guarantee hot water or heating and we changed tact. But always planned to have a midwife with us, which the local team were fine with - even with us being in rural Devon on Dartmoor’s fringes.

Wow, that article hit me like a punch in the gut. On so many levels.

Today, the #HouseofLords published its awaited report examining the state and quality of the #RuleOfLaw in the UK.

The report highlights with concern the weakening of this foundational value, and calls on Government and politicians to take stronger action to defend it.

There are many important recommendations in the HoL report, not least of which is not to be complacent about the strength of the rule of law in the UK.

Have a listen to the show, and do read.

Less recent cases:

[2016] UKSC 46 Lee-Hirons vs SoS Justice
[2015] UKSC 59 Mandalia vs SoS Home
[2015] EWHC 3297 (Admin) McMorn v Natural England
[2003] EWCA Civ 88 Asha Foundation v Millenium Commission
[2000] 1 WLR 806] R v Ministry of Defence, Ex Parte Walker

To read: A-v-SSHD [2020] EWCA Civ 858

"64... [a risk that] if policies such as the policies in issue in this appeal were regarded as legally enforceable, public authorities would be deterred from adopting them, notwithstanding the benefits that they can help to bring in terms of consistency, absence of arbitrariness and equal treatment"

Good Law Project v the Prime Minister [2022] EWCA Civ 1580:
- Public Records Act = narrow duty
- internal policies not generally enforceable in court
- courts won't dictate executive record keeping

But this case revolved around 8 specific policies...

www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Let’s bring back such traditions! 😂

Stunning!

The Royal Irish Constabulary’s withdrawal from most of the Irish countryside in 1920 was one of the points that I see that tide turning.

Pulls me straight to “What's Wrong With Open Government? -
Yes Minister”

youtu.be/8qSbB0ofJ4g?...