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Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

Prof Conor Gearty on the UK Supreme Court’s legal tactics for erasing the Human Rights Act.

“The​ current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers

Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.

#affordablehousingUK

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...

The data centres stopping new housing in London’s poorest borough Plus: local residents fight Wimbledon's expansion plans and the Met asks football clubs to cough up

found some myself;

www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-data-cen...

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

What is also interesting is that at [55] of the judgment it becomes clear that this was not an isolated incident by the barrister in question.... I wonder how, if at all, this will impact the referral to regulators.

UK judge sounds alarm on AI misuse in courts The warning comes after so-called hallucinations — AI-generated fictions — have cropped up at big law firms.

In a stern intervention, a judge at the High Court of England and Wales issued a formal warning to legal professionals on Friday, declaring that lawyers who submit fictitious cases generated by AI could face criminal charges.

Judgment on the use of AI in legal proceedings by legal professionals handed down: www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/form...

Dane Luo: There is ‘Advice’ and then there is ‘advice’: The Constitutional Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister On 23 May 2025, the Court of Appeal held that the Conservative Party was not exercising a ‘public function’ for the purposes of s 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 when it elected Liz Truss as party l…

Dane Luo: There is ‘Advice’ and then there is ‘advice’: The Constitutional Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/29/d...

All relevant legal methodologies are welcome, including doctrinal and comparative research, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives, whether theoretical or empirical. The manuscripts will be due by mid-September 2025 and, subject to peer-review, published in May 2026. 🧵4/4

Contributions could consist of fully fledged research articles of up to 8,000 words, footnotes included, or of shorter manuscripts such as case notes. 🧵3/4

Contributions should explore any of the links between the two concepts, such as the use of EIA as a tool for climate change mitigation or adaptation, and the application of EIA to climate projects. 🧵2/4

Professor Benoit Mayer and I are seeking expressions of interest for contributions to a Special Issue of Climate Law journal on climate change and environmental impact assessment (EIA)🧵1/4

Europa się obudziła. Unia, Ukraina, Wielka Brytania, Norwegia, Turcja - wszyscy mówią jednym głosem o pomocy Ukrainie, potrzebie ścisłej współpracy transatlantyckiej i wzmocnieniu wschodniej granicy.

SHOULD THE UK BAN TWITTER? Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · S1, E32 Bonus · 10m

Five months ago, I recorded a 10-minute explanation, as a former regulator, of why the UK would be not only perfectly within its rights to ban twitter, but probably ought to.

Maybe now people will listen.

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Delighted to see the book I assisted with published in hard copy!

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"God's Vicar in the Treasury": Gladstone and the Making of the Modern Budget As Rachel Reeves pokes around in the corpse of the public finances, ahead of her first budget on Wednesday, her thoughts might turn to those...

This - by Robert Saunders about the greatest Chancellor of them all (he explains why) - is a very good and thought-provoking read for the morning of the first Budget Day of a Labour Government. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2024/10/gods...

Independent review into legal challenges against Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects

This is worth a look, if you are interested in either judicial review or improving our ability to get things built www.gov.uk/government/p...

planning.surreycc.gov.uk/Document/Dow...

Thank you very much! I managed to access the ES but weirdly the link you shared didn’t work (might be a BlueSky issue). Hopefully the link below works for those interested in locating the relevant documents: planning.surreycc.gov.uk/Planning/Dis...

I am currently trying to find the ES/EIA study for Horse Hill oil project (from the Finch v Surrey County Council decision). Does anyone know where I can access it?

Agree completely — not just enough to assert substitution (or significant substitution) but to prove perfect (or virtually perfect) substitution, which is a very high burden. Also, very clear summary on downstream emissions and MSA in the case at [187] by Holgate J (as he then was).

Very interesting decision and very interesting consideration of the market substitution argument, which hasn’t been considered in substance earlier (by the English courts).

Congratulations to you both and happy anniversary! What a beautiful milestone🥂🍾

Completely agree. Lois Conner is well known for documenting the Hong Kong spidermen assembling the bamboo scaffolding.

A photo from my time at the CUHK, when I worked there.