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Mark Elliott
29 days ago
"In Defence of Classical Administrative Law", by @philipmurraylaw and me, has now been published in the Cambridge Law Journal on FirstView. It is available via the following link (open access):
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Delighted to express my support for the
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campaign. It would be dreadful decision for
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to abolish one of the best (if not the best) undergraduate Veterinary Medicine degrees in the world.
savethevetschool.co.uk
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Save the Vet School
A vital institution. A community in action. A future worth protecting. Stand with us to save the vet school.
https://savethevetschool.co.uk
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Faculty of Law
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đŁWe have issued a new
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@philipmurray.bsky.social
, Kathy Liddell & Matteo Aboy: đhttps://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2025/11/legal-studies-research-paper-series-vol-16-no-5
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Caitlin Moran
2 months ago
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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Rich Greenhill
2 months ago
âTHE KING has been pleased by Warrant under His Royal Sign Manual dated 30 October 2025 to direct His Secretary of State to cause the Duke of York to be removed from the Roll of the Peerage with immediate effect.â
thegazette.co.uk/notice/4992105
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Warrants Under the Royal Sign Manual
https://thegazette.co.uk/notice/4992105
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NEW An instance of the royal prerogative Why an Act of Parliament was not needed to remove the title from the former Duke of York By me Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/an-instanc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/11/an-i...
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An instance of the royal prerogative
Why an Act of Parliament was not needed to remove the title from the former Duke of York
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/an-instance-of-the-royal-prerogative
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Removal from the Roll of Peerage might deprive someone of the precedence and forms of address attaching to a peerage, but legally that person is still a peer. And removal from the roll does not stop a prince being a prince.
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Prince Andrew CAN renounce his peerage without an Act of Parliament
Reports have suggested there is no easy way to remove or renounce the title of Duke of York - but a little-known mechanism could effectively do so easily and immediately
https://nigelfletcher.substack.com/p/prince-andrew-can-renounce-his-peerage?r=tvti4&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
2 months ago
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A constitutional question: maintaining the roll of the peerage is the responsibility of a government minister, viz the Lord Chancellor. It's maintained by the Ministry of Justice. Is the King able independently to instruct the Lord Chancellor to remove someone from the roll, or can he only do so...
2 months ago
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James Ball
3 months ago
Iâm really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros havenât actually read Tolkien, as they certainly donât understand it. The gentle hobbits save the âhard menâ of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
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Itâs regularly said that when Parliament excludes judicial review, it does something so constitutionally intolerable that the courts can legitimately resist such efforts. The history of English administrative law tells a different story.
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I'm glad to share a new article from me and Paul Warchuk from the University of New Brunswick on the history of ouster clauses and the common law. We trace the law's approach to ouster clauses over 300 years, re-assessing the idea that ousters have always been considered constitutionally repugnant.
3 months ago
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Alexander Horne
3 months ago
I agree with Joshua that this intervention is by the Human Rights Commissioner is spectacularly badly timed. At a moment where two of the four largest political parties in the UK are advocating an exit from the Convention system, his criticisms seem tin eared.
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@robinsoncollege.bsky.social
are looking for a new Junior Research Fellow from a variety of humanities and social sciences, including law. Join us!
www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/about-robins...
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Isaac Newton/College Junior Research Fellowship 2026 | Robinson College
https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/about-robinson/job-vacancies/isaac-newtoncollege-junior-research-fellowship-2026
3 months ago
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Mark Elliott
4 months ago
A new paper from Philip Murray and me: 'In Defence of Classical Administrative Law'. We argue that the voidness of unlawful administrative acts is central to the rule of law and that recent challenges to that view can and should be resisted.
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/09/16/i...
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In Defence of Classical Administrative Law
In a recently completed paper, Philip Murray and I develop a defence of what we term the classical account of administrative law. The question with which we are centrally concerned is whether (as tâŠ
https://publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/09/16/in-defence-of-classical-administrative-law/
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Steve Peers
4 months ago
Timeline cleanse
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"A single human soul is worth more than the whole universe of material goods. There is nothing higher than the immortal soul, save God. With respect to the eternal destiny of the soul, society exists for each person and is subordinated to it." â Jacques Maritain, The Person and the Common Good
4 months ago
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Alexander Horne
4 months ago
We do not live in a tyranny. Using armed officers to arrest a man at an airport over a series of tweets is the sort of thing one would expect to happen in Russia or North Korea. People will remember this when the police next claim to be under resourced.
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Alexander Horne
4 months ago
Reflecting on the Graham Lineham story this morning, unless there is something more that hasnât been reported, assuming that the Met Police was responsible for this âoperationâ I think the Commissioner should resign.
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Cracking read.
4 months ago
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Nick Diable
4 months ago
I don't particularly agree with his views, but if he has been arrested over these three tweets then that's completely ridiculous.
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I just got arrested again
I arrived back in London to discover the UK is still a police state run by trans activists
https://open.substack.com/pub/grahamlinehan/p/i-just-got-arrested-again?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4pwlv5
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Ben Ansell
5 months ago
On where UK Bluesky does have a blind spot, I havenât seen anything on here about the vandalism of Policy Exchangeâs office (see below). This kind of stuff should be called out and criticised and Iâm very happy to do so.
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I'm afraid to say the Bodleian is significantly nicer to work in than Cambridge's UL.
5 months ago
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Paul Bernal
6 months ago
Letâs be clear. The problem is the Online Safety Act. Itâs not Labour, itâs not the Tories, itâs both of them. The act had cross party support. The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
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Good stuff from
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. Mark's right, I think, that the Supreme Court's recent practice of issuing bland, single judgments "has arguably had the effect of oversimplifying, or at least obscuring important and contentious issues".
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/29/t...
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The Supreme Courtâs judgment in Shvidler: Lord Leggattâs Liversidge v Anderson moment
Todayâs Supreme Courtâs judgment in Shvidler v Foreign Secretary addresses key issues about the role of courts generally and appellate courts in particular when it comes to applying the propoâŠ
https://publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/29/the-supreme-courts-judgment-in-shvidler-lord-leggatts-liversidge-v-anderson-moment/
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This is a brilliant choice. Lord Smith will be an excellent Chancellor for the the University of Cambridge.
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New Chancellor elected at the University of Cambridge
Lord Chris Smith has been elected as the new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-chancellor-elected-at-the-university-of-cambridge
6 months ago
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Mark Elliott
6 months ago
As someone who couldn't have undertaken a PhD without funding, the AHRC scholarship I received (many years ago) was life-changing. It's incredibly concerning that the the next generation of prospective academics are being denied such opportunities.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...
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âStudent-ledâ AHRC PhD places âto fall by at least 60 per centâ
Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student-led-ahrc-phd-places-fall-least-60-cent
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Colm O'Cinneide
6 months ago
Two quick points about today's Braverman/Prosperity Institute report on ECHR exit & the GFA. (i) Advocating a return to the legal situation that applied in Northern Ireland in 1969 is an interesting choice of approach. (Cue the quote about the Bourbons forgetting nothing & learning nothing.) 1/2
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Lewis Graham
6 months ago
Another decision, this time from Scotland, on the "narrowly drawn" exceptions to the Cart ouster in the TCEA 2007:
www.bailii.org/scot/cases/S...
Gabriel Tan
@finishedloading.bsky.social
discussed a similar English court case here back in May:
administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/c...
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https://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/2025/2025csoh65.html
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Lewis Graham
6 months ago
Today's report by Suella Braverman on leaving the ECHR is, unsurprisingly, full of myths (the common law will protect us), lies (the ECHR stops us from having our desired immigration system) and exaggerations (human rights are incompatible with sovereignty). It's not worth taking seriously.
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Steve Peers
6 months ago
Again - the reason the Irish government/nationalists in Northern Ireland wanted a reference to the ECHR in the Good Friday Agreement is that the European Court of Human Rights had held the UK accountable for human rights abuses in NI - whereas "domestic UK and common law principles" had not
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On first impressions, Suella Braverman's ECHR report rests on an overly selective history of the ECHR's place in the Belfast Agreement. To say that commitments in the agreement to incorporate the ECHR into Northern Irish law and to limit the Assemblyâs ability to legislate contrary to the ECHR ...
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Growth and house building are crucial. So is nature. It's a crying shame that Labour are sacrificing biodiversity and the natural environment for a quick fix.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Destroying our natural wealth makes us poorer in every sense of the word
Partha Dasguptaâs landmark study provided way to put a value on nature â but many fear report has been sidelined
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/new-approach-to-gdp-could-help-nature-survive-labours-housebuilding-plans
7 months ago
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This is constitutionally confused. Policy and legal instructions to officials do not constitute Parliament's intention. Statutory language, context and, in cases of ambiguity, ministerial statements and explanatory notes, do.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Didn't the Vice President in his Munich speech criticise the UK for penalising private prayer? (I'm against the UK laws too, for what it's worth.)
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9 months ago
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While Oxford elected Lord Hague of Richmond, Cambridge will fight it out between Gina Miller and the host of QI.
9 months ago
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Heartbreaking about the Holy Father. But he enters into the full light of the resurrection. May he know the Lordâs mercy and love.
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Ennius
9 months ago
The three holy women arrive at the empty tomb and are greeted by an angel. The guards remain asleep in front of the tomb.
#EasterSunday
MĂŒnchen, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 16002; Passau Evangelistar; c.1170 CE - 1180 CE; Passau; f.20v
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Faisel Sadiq
9 months ago
Reading stuff like this makes me rather pleased to live in the UK with our King-in-Parliament and unwritten constitution but deep seated values, and not that âshining city on a hillâ that has talked so much about freedom and liberty but for so many of whom that just meant freedom for white people.
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Lord Norton of Louth
9 months ago
Our constitutional system isn't actually that bad - and is worth defending
nortonview.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/o...
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Our constitutional system isnât actually that bad â and is worth defending
The United States is in a state of crisis. What was considered a strong democratic nation protected by a codified constitution, lauded for holding its own over time, is now in turmoil, the actions âŠ
https://nortonview.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/our-constitutional-system-isnt-actually-that-bad-and-is-worth-defending/
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SpinningHugo
9 months ago
John Finnis' British Academy memoir of Joseph Raz
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Raz, Joseph, 1939-2022
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/memoirs/22/raz-joseph-1939-2022/
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Constitutional codification is a false panacea.
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9 months ago
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Lord Norton of Louth
9 months ago
In 'Governing Britain', I noted that the existence of a codified constitution fails to constrain the executive unless there is a culture of constitutionalism. This is being borne out by events around the globe.
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There's an interesting debate in this thread about the limitations on allowing third-party interventions in the UK Supreme Court, in relation to the FWS decision.
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Law, as ordinance of reason, recognises due process as vital. By subjecting governmental acts to law, the one who has the care of the community treats shows the law's subjects to be respected partners in public reason.
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Spinkyâs Mama
9 months ago
Lads- the Cricket episode of Bluey has just gone on iPlayer. If you have 7 minutes there isnât a better distillation of the love of the game.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Bluey - Series 3: 47. Cricket
During a friendly game of neighbourhood cricket, the dads struggle to bowl Rusty out.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002b34l/bluey-series-3-47-cricket
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The assisted suicide bill should not survive
Until about six months ago, it would have been hard to find a more inoffensive politician than the Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater. A well-liked, upbeat, down-to-earth Yorkshirewoman, she entered po...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-assisted-suicide-bill-should-not-survive/
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The natural law tradition, from which common good constitutionalism claims its lineage, obviously goes further back than Aquinas and expressly Catholic thought. Aristotle. Cicero. Mediated through Finnis, it isnât wedded to acceptance of Revelation âŠ
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Lex nihil est aliud, quam quaedam rationis ordinatio ad bonum commune, ab eo, qui curam communitatis habet, promulgata (cf ST IaIIae 90.4).
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SpinningHugo
9 months ago
There has been some excellent academic work on the issue raised by
@michaelpforan.bsky.social
in the LQR and elsewhere that you can access here. It changed my mind and convinced me of the answer the UKSC was to give. /4
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