The Refugee Convention and the UK Nationality and Borders Bill
For a number of years now, various UK governments have enacted legislation which, among other objectives, have been designed to signal to...
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Police Responses to Police Misconduct
On 30 September 2021, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal handed down its judgment (IPJ) in the case of Kate Wilson v The Commissioner of...
Laying Down the Law: Reflections on the report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities
A generous reading of the report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) would attribute much of its findings to a desire...
The Post-Brexit European Union
It has taken close to four years for the final outcome of that period in the progress of the European Union (EU) legal order, which...
Non-Criminal Covert Policing
If the experiences of the political activists who were spied upon by former Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) and National Public Order...
Open Justice, Virtual Hearings, and the Undercover Policing Inquiry
The undercover policing inquiry has set a deadline of 26 June 2020 for written representations from its core participants and from the...
Ordinary People in Humanitarian Emergencies
A Review of Kate Pincock, Alexander Betts and Evan Easton-Calabria, The Global Governed? Refugees as Providers of Protection and...
Racisms, Rationalities and Objective Justifications: A Short Note on the Court of Appeal Decision in
On 21 April 2020, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the case of Secretary of State for the Home Department v Joint Council...
Stand up, Step Forward, Go Home: Lessons Learned from Windrush
“[t]hose aboard the Windrush...felt they were answering a call from the ‘motherland’ to help her in her time of need after World War Two....
Covid-19 Testing and the Dissonance of Law
The Coronavirus Act 2020 came into force on 25 March (s. 87). For the next two years at least, it is likely to represent the UK...