A Note on the Inquiry into Undercover Policing Strategic Review
Yesterday, the Inquiry into Undercover Policing published the latest iteration of its Strategic Review (IUPSR). It did not concede to the demands of non-state core participants for a panel of individuals (with direct experience of the effects of covert policing operations) which would aid the inquiry Chair in achieving the objectives of modules one and two. However, it could not disguise their very real success in pressing the inquiry to address its current deficit model of p
On Deconstruction and Closed Courts
Force of Law: The “Mystical Foundation of Authority” is one of Jacques Derrida’s most widely read and influential texts. It is a text in which Derrida sought to “foreground the theme of justice” (Derrida,1992: 7). He questions whether justice “exists...outside or beyond law” (1992: 14). By way of preliminary conclusion, he states: if “such a thing exists… deconstruction is justice” (Derrida, 1992: 14-15). In English civil and criminal law, increasing recourse is being made t