Great thread on the potential legislative implications of the conditions ostensibly placed on our re-entry into the EU's electricity market.

Many will have missed this important announcement on 22 December on progress in a key aspect of the UK/EU reset: more details of the agreement that will provide for UK participation in the EU internal electricity market, a key part of ensuring the UK’s energy security. 🧵 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Goodwin (like similar voices) is being totally dishonest about this. Despite the equal dishonesty of its headline, the Mail story shows these weren't "anti-immigration tweets", they were calls for "slaughter" and mass violence against MPs. It's incredible that this is being openly condoned.

Britain could have joined Erasmus five years ago; an agreement on funding was completed between negotiators but vetoed “at the very last minute” by Boris Johnson. From Stefaan de Rynck’s book

Interesting and nuanced discussion of migration, asylum & British citizenship by the House of Lords with @sundersays.bsky.social & @alanmanning4.bsky.social

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

Very true, and explains quite a lot.

On Ofcom’s difficulty in enforcing fines against overseas companies operating websites without proper age filters: and indeed enforcement of UK against overseas providers of online services to the UK who break UK law generally (tax; regulation).

I just re-read this gem by Lord Hannan. It has been a few years since I looked at it. Incredible Stuff. The myopia is one thing. But the way literally every global development has been misjudged. Amazing. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

Our new report on Sky Bet's relocation to Malta. Full details of what we think they did, whether it was legal, and how HMRC and the Government could stop it: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/11/18/s...

Touché.

A question not asked by Joshua, but which seems quite important, is whether any judgment by a Florida court (assuming as Joshua does that it would assert jurisdiction) would be enforceable here. Any views?

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...

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