What does it mean for someone to be charged with a criminal offence? My new journal article is out this week in OUP’s Human Rights Law Review on the ECtHR's Engel criteria in the 21st century (1/4) academic.oup.com/hrlr/article... #echr #humanrights #humanrightslaw #law

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We are delighted to share Conor Gearty @lselaw.bsky.social’s reflections on writing: 8 tips for surviving (and enjoying!) academic writing. Many thanks to Conor for sharing his insights! Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil... Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...

Terribly sad. Conor examined my DPhil, with good humour and thoughtful constructive criticism, and was unfailingly generous then and for years afterward.

Huge, huge loss for the UK legal and political community www.linkedin.com/posts/cherie...

It's a hard sell, but more politicians would be good for Aus: * Deeper talent pool for committees & ministries * More access - most Aussies have never interacted with their local MP * Reverses the growing physical size of rural electorates Since 1980s, Aus added +11 million people and no new MPs.

My article "Does Nature Need Rights?" (coauthored with the wonderful Lulu Weis), forthcoming in the OJLS, is now available open access: academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...

Some interesting ideas in this, and noticeable that the Canberra model is increasingly in vogue among reformers; @lewisbaston.bsky.social was similarly arguing a few months back that the UK could do worse than adopting an Australian-style parliamentary system.

Here's the full statement from Government House:

🏛️ Great to publish this article on parliamentary privilege, coauthored with Prof Gabrielle Appleby; Tasmanian roadworks have never been so interesting! G Appleby & R Goss (2025) 40(1) Australasian Parliamentary Review 14-33 www.aspg.org.au/a-p-r-journa... #auslaw

“our constitutional arrangements mean that we must, as a community, recognise our problems and accept that solving them is the responsibility of all of us because we can't look to pronouncements from on high to solve our political differences.…” — Justice Keane, 2008.

At a quiet Parliament House on a beautiful autumn afternoon, a few signs of preparations for new inhabitants arriving imminently

I'm probably missing something, but it looks a bit like the Greens' lead ACT Senate candidate may be vulnerable to a s44 challenge on a similar set of facts to those in Gallagher's case? Perhaps there are more recent updates not available in the AEC form. www.aec.gov.au/election/fil... #auspol

I'm probably missing something, but it looks a bit like the Greens' lead ACT Senate candidate may be vulnerable to a s44 challenge on a similar set of facts to those in Gallagher's case? Perhaps there are more recent updates not available in the AEC form. www.aec.gov.au/election/fil... #auspol

111 in-person overseas voting centres across the world!

As Kevin notes, some interesting reading in the section 44 checklists available at www.aec.gov.au/election/can...

"Yet there is method nonetheless. He takes his time, he comes up with a plan, he assembles his materials and then, almost without you noticing it, he builds his house."

Pleased to have my research on criminal fair trial rights cited again in a recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg: Gorse v Slovenia, in the Concurring Opinion of Judge Serghides #echr #humanrights hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...

Australian Head of State deployed as tool of British foreign policy www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pleased to have 4 pieces of my research on #ECHR criminal fair trial rights cited again this week in a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, in the Dissenting Opinion of Judge Serghides in Souroullas Kay and Zannettos v Cyprus. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-23...