A bit late but a tidied up text of a short speech I gave to the @labour4europe.bsky.social rally at Labour Conference. open.substack.com/pub/georgepe...

A bit late but a tidied up text of a short speech I gave to the @labour4europe.bsky.social rally at Labour Conference. open.substack.com/pub/georgepe...

I wrote a short piece on their '50 problematic cases' (publiclawforeveryone.com/2016/05/09/a...) and also a response to John Finnis's lecture that (I think) launched the JPP (publiclawforeveryone.com/2015/11/05/j...)

Judgment on attempt by landlords to get a declaration that reforms to leasehold enfranchisement legislation infringe Art 1 Protocol 1 ECHR. As the judgment is long most will just want to read the official summary. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Fans of VAT food and drink cases will enjoy this decision, where the Tax Tribunal was entertained with two days of argument on whether Ferrero Nutella chocolate biscuits (pictured) are “covered in chocolate”. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukftt/tc/202....

If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

"The reason why the reactionary right hate the ECHR is because it gives ordinary citizens the right against the secretive and authoritarian state that they want." –George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally. @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social

The EU Council register of documents now includes a draft UK/EU youth mobility treaty...the text is not yet public though

They obviously don't understand their own policy. There's no exception in their Bill for EU nationals. The Bill applies to ILR generally, & the exceptions are in clause 3(6), & don't include EU nationals. bsky.app/profile/pete...

Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...

Some important guidance yesterday from the Competition Appeal Tribunal for crowdfunded litigation and - many BlueSky users will want to note - for those who donate to such litigation. www.catribunal.org.uk/sites/cat/fi...

Among other things, Katie Lam is proposing racist voter suppression. As @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social has noted, Commonwealth citizens w/ LtR can vote in UK elections - but ending ILR would reframe that right to vote to a 5yr rolling basis, ~1x per Parliamentary term. It's UK Black History Month...

"The real danger to border control and public security here, is leaving the ECHR." –George Peretz KC, Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers, speaking at our conference rally. @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social @soclablaw.bsky.social

This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).

So the arc of shame appears to have completely reversed on X.

Good on these two. That’s how you keep norms alive

The PM and leader of the Opposition have criticised the decision to ban away fans from the Aston Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv football match in Birmingham. The police decision follows violence and rioting in Amsterdam in November at the Ajax v Maccabi game www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very good diagnosis of the ECHR debate here: and a key question as to how effectively to oppose the essentially vibes-based case against it (albeit with a veil of legitimacy from flimsy and bad faith, but apparently scholarly, publications by right wing think tanks with good media links).

Calling law students interested in public law: the ALBA mooting competition is now under way. Details here. Academics/practitioners - please pass on. adminlaw.org.uk/event/the-ca...

Great piece by @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social in support of the ECHR: exactly the points I and others in @soclablaw.bsky.social have been making. labourlist.org/2025/10/paul...

Theologians: discuss.

Lord Wolfson's legal advice to Kemi Badenoch on ECHR withdrawal has now been published. In this thread I'll highlight a few passages that stood out for me - not meant to be a full analysis (in [] are the paragraph numbers). /1 rozenberg.substack.com/p/how-uk-cou...

Quite

Chris Philp on R4 yesterday making 3 false statements about the ECHR and the GFA. 1. “The ECHR is mentioned only in the Multi-Party Agreement not the UK/Ireland Agreement.”. Wrong: the latter agreement requires the UK to support the former: they can’t be pulled apart like that.

Summary here by @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social of the so far unpublished but apparently “circulating” “legal advice” by Lord Wolfson to the Tory party. open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...

My own reaction to this is that the only time I’ve been subject to an anti-Semitic pile-on was on the Musk site. When I rejected the idea of “two-tier justice”: I was entertained by US adherents of the idea that Jews were behind the Great Replacement, with pictures in case I didn’t read English.

“Entirely mediated by English interests” is generous. As Edward Carson said in 1921: “What a fool I was. I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland, in the political game that was to get the Conservative Party into power.” Some things never change.

The case that was “too big for the government to lose” Because the government famously never loses big cases, which is why government ministers never get cross with judges who rule against them

Absolutely.

The government is currently reviewing the opt-out collective actions regime in competition law, which enables consumers to claim compensation from corporations accused of market abuse. How should we calibrate the balance between corporations and consumers? rozenberg.substack.com/p/consumer-p...

Absolutely agree with @paulmason.bsky.social on this. @soclablaw.bsky.social, which I chair, is up for doing what we can to help. open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/s....

And we are off!

Great event and lots of good point. I spoke about the need to stop treating the ECHR and Human Rights Act as a difficulty.

The objection to this is of course moral. But Farage seems to have forgotten that Commonwealth citizens with ILR have votes.

Pleased to have this (definitely aimed at non-lawyers) piece published in @labourlist.bsky.social. labourlist.org/2025/09/quit...

Thomas Vaupel @pes.eu Calvin Bailey MP @zitagurmai.bsky.social @pes-women.bsky.social @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social @soclablaw.bsky.social Hilton Hotel Liverpool Grace Suite 1 Sunday 3pm-4.30pm Details: www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/lme_rally_at...

@naomipohl.bsky.social, General Secretary, @wearethemu.bsky.social Thomas Vaupel, Deputy Secretary-General, @pes.eu @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social, Chair, @soclablaw.bsky.social

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

Interesting thread. Christina is quite right about the MHRA, which is in law simply an agency of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with no separate legal personality.

SPEAKER UPDATE: We are delighted to announce that @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social and @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social will speak at our rally at Labour Conference! They join: Nick Thomas-Symonds MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social @yuanfenyang.bsky.social @naomipohl.bsky.social @pes.eu

Idea for next UK ambassador to the US: someone who’ll open doors, has no connection to Epstein, will Trump’s attention and respect, and for whom it would be perfect preparation for his future job.

As Barbara says.

Yup. The “It’ll all sort itself out” delusion.

The problem - which was discussed at some length yesterday - is that Colin's and Aoife's forensic demolition of that PX misleading report on NI/ECHR has got NO traction among the numerous media organisations that gave prime national relevance to the latter. Dark money wins over accuracy

"The changes will require new legislation in the UK, which is expected to be largely compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights, enabling the Irish Government to abandon its legal challenge [before the European Court of Human Rights] to the previous British legislation." 1/

I gave a talk this week on the vulnerability of UK institutions to a populist govt and I was told by an audience member that the US and Hungary couldn't happen here. I said it absolutely could and Reform are learning fast. The complacency is scary

My brief thoughts on how to sell the HRA/ECHR 1. “These are *your* rights”: cases where ordinary people have needed the ECHR (Hillsborough and the “gays in the military” case are good: plenty of others. 2. “Do you trust bureaucrats and politicians with your rights? Really?”

Unpopular opinion: 1)What is happening in America is hugely concerning. 2) It is in both Britain‘s and Europe's interest to work closely together. 3) Neither Brits nor Europeans can afford to openly break with the US right now. 4) Making the most of that impossible situation is very hard.

NEW: Britain’s fiercest libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for the $4bn OneCoin fraud and threatened its critics. Now they’re being prosecuted at the SDT. Their response? An anonymity order to cover it up. But Carter-Ruck just lost that order - and it's all coming out. Thread