I'm having flashbacks to courts being directed to give "great weight" and "the greatest possible weight" to various matters under the hugely successful Bill of Rights Bill.

The gender pay gap is not a distinct thing outside other kinds of systemic struggle; it's a gateway for many such struggles.

This is probably a niche observation but the survey asked "2025 or 1975" to at least some people who were not alive in 1975, never mind old enough to have an opinion of life in 1975. To what extent therefore are the survey and its results pure shite?

Progress report on negotiations on a general EU anti-discrimination directive (outside employment) - still no unanimity on this - data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...

Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.

President Catherine Connolly says she will foster “inclusive and open dialogue” on a united Ireland. She said any progress towards unity must honour the principle of consent and celebrate the heritage and traditions of all who live on the island. #VMNews

H/t to @nearlydoctornick.bsky.social for highlighting this hauntingly beautiful collab between the late Talos and Ólafur Arnalds: youtu.be/nEBbhgMp8Ok?...

🚨🚨 I am very delighted to peer over my proofs to a new quite comprehensive article analysing the European Public Prosecutor's Office ( #EPPO) to be published in the December issue of #europeanlawreview. 🧵

The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly? m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

"I believe there is social value to bolstering public understanding of the law." Absolutely 100% agree with Steve. If the last decade has taught us anything, it's that some of the most explosive public law cases around Brexit have stemmed from an ignorance of/refusal to understand the law.

Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral race, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state politician to one of the country's most visible Democratic figures.

I've a new paper out in the Discrimination Law Association's Briefings on the distinct Windsor Framework's rights/equality arrangements applicable to Northern Ireland law, which give ongoing significance of a broad sweep of EU protections even after Brexit: discriminationlaw.org.uk/assets/docum...

This is a word salad invented after a whole month of uncritically swallowing the weirdest corners of the internet, in a basement infested with black mould.

Wow the IT actually printed my letter #speirghorm

I had a few US legal academics come for me in the 9th circle of Hell (aka X/Twitter) for a joke about how American law review articles can sometimes be self-indulgent books in disguise. This is on another level (of dreadful).

Results are trickling in.. and the first ones are from the islands.

Even by the metrics of runaway corporate profiteering the East India Company was overstretched and on the verge of bankruptcy almost throughout the 19th c (until it was formally shut down). This is illiterate even by the worst standards of understanding imperial history. And that is an achievement.

When, instead of reading an actual text, you only read the first two lines of an AI summary. I've had to mark a few papers like this. At least that problem is a shit understanding of tort law (which may be smacked out of them by courts and costs) and not a billionaire with a global megaphone.

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....

Welcome to South Asia, where many languages have this. E.g. my māmā (maternal uncle in Bengali), can be my mother's brother or cousin. In the same way that cousins are also brothers/sisters (and you might hear "cousin-brother/sister" from South Asians when speaking in English). What. A. Scandal.

I am especially fascinated by this bit, as if the tort of defamation is essentially a requirement that you pay for the privilege of trashing someone's reputation (it isn't).

The JCHR's report on the judicial immunity remedial order: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Wasn't the far right berating everyone else for focussing on identity politics or something only seconds ago? Seems quite the about-turn to go from that to caring about skin colour on adverts 🤔

This is beyond stupid. People flying out from Belfast and back through Dublin having child benefit stopped because HMRC assumes they've left the country I know GB forgets Northern Ireland exists, but what are they playing at www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Indira Gandhi ushered in an "elective dictatorship" for 2 years under one of the world's most prescriptive constitutions. A codified constitution is not a solution, it's a beginning.

With 3 constituencies left to count - Catherine Connolly has received the highest number of votes of any candidate for presidency in the history of the state According to @womenforelection.bsky.social data - MDH in 2018 had 822k #Aras25

First few official results now coming in for #aras25: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

QUB Law is getting in the Halloween mood with photorealistic depictions of parliamentary sovereignty and the royal prerogative

If anyone is interested ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/02/13/b...

My heart goes out to the Bloody Sunday families. BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg... Bloody Sunday: Soldier F found not guilty of all charges in Bloody Sunday murder trial - BBC News

You know, for all our crumbling infrastructure and health service crises, NI bantz are still legendary 🫠 BBC News - King should abdicate if he prays with the Pope - Kyle Paisley www.bbc.com/news/article...

🇵🇱⚖️🎙️This is a hypercharged week in Poland's story of the use of Pegasus surveillance software, with two former officials charged (black bars on the eyes, we're in Poland) and an explosive development of alleged use of surveillance against Kasia Tusk-Cudna, lifestyle blogger - and PM Tusk's daughter.

Yet another L for Dicey: now a parliament has to be "good" to be sovereign 😔

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...

This power isn't discretionary or enabling. The clause would *automatically* remove ILR if any of the conditions are satisfied. Parliament can do this, but when it previously has, it's been in unusual/extreme situations. Like WW1 and the deprivation of titles from certain foreign nationals.

A pleasure to be up in Stormont earlier to present our final report on Environmental Governance in Northern Ireland 👇 More independence, more powers, and greater transparency and accountability all needed to improve governance and the environment for all. www.daera-ni.gov.uk/news/indepen...

Time once again for my post in celebration of the finest killing machine and fiercest protectress of the Hindu pantheon. Happy Kali Puja!

W v GRP: the functioning of gender recognition law – Administrative Court Blog share.google/5u9qUA5aGak1...

I agree with all this, but just a small point: explaining something simply isn't always explaining something accessibly. Simplicity by itself can obscure and even mislead. This is true for legal academia as much as it is for legal practice.

Court of Appeal permits Palestine Action proscription challenge to proceed on two further grounds and dismisses Home Secretary’s alternative remedy argument administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/c...

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

Okay, I'll bite. French citizens living in NI vote in French Presidential elections. It doesn't change NI's Head of State. Any change for Irish citizens in NI should not put Unionists up or down. Carping about what Irish citizens can and can't do is not a good look: www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

I’m very pleased to have been able to write this short explainer to the HRA, in @libertyhq.bsky.social newsletter to members celebrating 25 years of the Act

This is why that piece about "why do students have to pay for education when genAI provides all the answers for free" is unadulterated shite. GenAI is frequently wrong and doesn't build your skills. Oh but AI just needs more training! No Brad, your brain needs more training.

The Centre for European Legal Studies at Cambridge is on Bluesky 👋 @eulegalstudies.bsky.social

Ooh, we've managed to revive Ship Money principles in 2025. Charles I would be so proud 🥹

Interestingly while Uniplex resulted in the promptitude requirement being removed from public procurement matters in E&W, we got rid of it from JR generally in NI. So now applications for JR must be made within 3 months only. 1/

Procedural rigour, promptness, and “protective issuing” in judicial review administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/p...

Not the cursed ratio 😬