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In my review of Adam Wagner’s Emergency State I talked about proportionality:

Proportionality is a key concept in human rights law, and Wagner’s approach and my […]

Adam Wagner has written a very interesting, highly readable and thought-provoking book about law and the pandemic, based on his professional experience in a number of important […]

Does the smoking ban in public places apply to prisons? No, the Court of Appeal has said, in a judgment today. The ruling […]

Fiona Maye is sixty – and a judge in the Family Division of the High Court. […]

Last night the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish Parliament, passed the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill. Here’s the text, which must now be considered by the Seanad. If voted through there, it will come into law […]

The big news from America today of course is that the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of President Obama’s main legislative achievement, the “Affordable Care Act” or as some critics call it “Obamacare”. At its heart is what’s called […]

The United States Supreme Court is currently hearing Department of Health and Human Services v Florida, in which President Obama’s Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is appealing the decision of a Federal Court of Appeals that the Patient Protection and […]

By convention, the Queen grants Royal assent to legislation passed by the Lords and Commons. It’s only a constitutional convention that she does so: in other words, she does so because she herself, ministers, MPs and the public regard it […]

Guido Fawkes today drew attention to two responses by Conservative MPs to the legal opinion published by 38 Degrees about the Health and Social Care Bill – one by Stephen Phillips, and another by Guy Opperman.

But the […]

And now for something completely different.

The Health and Social Care Bill is approaching report stage in the House of Commons, and the campaign group 38 Degrees has obtained legal advice about it from Stephen Cragg and Rebecca Haynes.