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Our lecturer, Dr Fiona Brimblecombe, has recently published her Open-Access monograph 'Defamation in the Digital Age and the "right to be forgotten"'. Check it out here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/defamation-i... @uomsoss.bsky.social

In Birmingham today for the launch of the nine NPCC/UKRI Policing Academic Centres of Excellence. Delighted to be one of the team representing Manchester-PACE, a collaboration between The University of Manchester and MMU @manmetuni.bsky.social science.police.uk/delivery/res...

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

Amid many a silly “free speech” panic, here is a genuinely chilling case … Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

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Presumably this is the "reasonable excuse" defence for public nuisance in action, following Ziegler? Anyone know why the CPS didn't pursue criminal damage? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I elaborate on allegation-picking here. It has the potential to act (in certain circumstances) as a vehicle for judicial avoidance but one that has avoided the same kind of scruinty as doctrines such as the margin of appreciation have been subjected to: strasbourgobservers.com/2025/02/25/a...

Looking to build back up my group of PhD students. Primarily interested in supervising in the area of drug policy but open to other areas, too. Drop me an email if you have an idea. For more information about me and my work, take a look here: tobyseddon.com

vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18... Come join me and my good chums in the Law School here… This is where we work You could even work with me, trying - sometimes succeeding - to convey the joys of Public Law to 1st years

Please ciruclate: Looking for 1-2 RAs for a project on domestic court impact on outcomes at the ECtHR (200h total until end of Feb). Essential: undergraduate degree in law (or related subject) and resident in UK - suitable for grad students. Deadline: 31 October: www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/jobs/2...

NEW Either public safety is an absolute priority at sporting events or it is not. Reflections on the Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv match By me emptycity.substack.com/p/either-pub...

A Maccabi club source told the UK Jewish News that the intervention of far right political activist Tommy Robinson pledging to attend the game as a Maccabi fan was the "final straw" for their decision about the risks of accepting tickets amid this row www.jewishnews.co.uk/exclusive-ma...

Now it seems that the sorry tale of the Maccabi Tel Aviv away ticket allocation has finally run its course, time for some reflection. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon

The UK Football Policing Unit informed the Home Office *last week* about the safety risks of Maccabi fans attending Villa Park and the potential for a ban. Whatever the rights & wrongs of the decision, it makes the Government's sudden reaction after yesterday's announcement look even more amateur.

More worrying for policing in Britain in the few years to come would be a successful Prime Ministerial or Home Office intervention in the Villa policing decision We can argue for a different more accountable form of policing but I’m not sure that shifting into governmental hands is the solution

This is a fascinating development in the Aston Villa v Maccabi TA story, using the language of human rights. Collective expressions of identity by football fans are protected under the ECHR and HRA, but being able to buy tickets for a particular match clearly isn't.

This latest "barrister meets AI" disaster is something all stage 1 law students should read. It is vital about the key skill of case reading - you mustn't use AI to substitute for the skill of being able to find cases and find key content in cases: tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ui-202...

Some context about the banning of Maccabi Tel Aviv from Villa Park. Safety Advisory Groups regularly restrict numbers of away fans or impose other restrictions on them. Banning away fans is v rare but not unheard of (eg Millwall, Rangers, Celtic). In the continent, away fans are regularly banned.

Not that I'm suggesting this is opportunism, but can anyone recall a senior British politician speaking out about access to away matches before? I don't even recall a peep out of the govt when English teams were banned from all European matches for 5 years in the 1980s. www.bbc.com/news/article...

We've got 2 upcoming events for #PGRs and #ECRs! Hear from experienced #policing researchers about how to get the most from #focusgroups (7 Nov) and using #creativemethods (2 Dec) Registration below ⬇️ www.n8prp.org.uk/home/events/

My policing, #sportslaw, and human rights klaxons have just all gone off at once. www.itv.com/news/central...

Research Associate – Women’s Road Safety in Greater Manchester 0.6 FTE for 12 months To work with my colleagues Caroline Miles and Rose Broad www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

#Sportslaw Blog! With Faraz Shahlaei we prepared a symposium for Strasbourg Observers focused on the #Semenya judgement of the Grand Chamber of the #ECtHR. Our opening blog introducing the symposium is at strasbourgobservers.com/2025/10/01/e... #ECHR #HumanRights #DSDRegulations #WorldAthletics

A letter from @crwerren.bsky.social @suzmd.bsky.social @storiesfromjack.bsky.social and me on the plans to allow cumulatively disruptive protests to be regulated by the police www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Even putting aside the continued repression of free speech by the current UK Government, what could possibly go wrong with this idea, eh? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

(1) Police can already take into account cumulative effect - restrictions on repeat disruptive protests are more likely to be proportionate. (2) Vast numbers of DefendOurJuries protesters have been arrested. It's made future protests more, not less, likely. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reposting this in light of the debates about requests for the postponement of tomorrow's Defend our Juries protest. And a reminder that police forces have considerable discretion about how to manage peaceful but unlawful forms of protest.

Staggeringly inept. And it would have been really useful with this Government to have had a competent Opposition.

Left without comment www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The most shocking aspect of this latest Met police scandal are the incidents occurring in a custody suite, despite the legal frameworks, leadership structures, and high levels of surveillance and supervision. It sounds more like a pre-PACE environment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

Terrifyingly, it was 30 years ago this week that I delivered my first lecture. I was module leader for Foundations of Law, just over 2 years after flunking the same module as a first year undergrad. No teaching training, no observation, just "here's a book and some white board pens, and off you go".

The first of my Coffee Time Constitutional Law video series is now available. This is aimed at students of Public Law as well as anybody wanting to learn more about the UK Constitution. More videos will follow in this series ASAP. I promise! youtu.be/9W37_ece4Bg?...

Anyone buying one of these things pre Halloween deserves the choking, stabbing, or electrocution hazard it will inevitably produce when the clock ticks to midnight.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Campus looking very scenic as another academic year at the University of Manchester Law School (@uomlaw.bsky.social) begins!

I have just read an official report from an NDPB which based its findings on <10 interviews and half a dozen surveys. Suddenly feeling a lot more bullish about my own research and that of the PGRs I am supervising.

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

“Sporting bodies must not turn a blind eye to grave human rights violations, especially when their platforms are used to normalise injustices.” UN experts call on FIFA and UEFA to expel Israel from international football, citing occupation and genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social. The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027. Salary: £41,064-£48,822 Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social Deadline: 13 October 2025 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

On the rattler across the pennines to @lawatleeds.bsky.social for today's '25 Years of the HRA' event. I will be presenting on Policing and the Human Rights Act.

So this is by no means a criticism of #LOFC, but the fact this has to go through the SAG is crazy. For 0.5% beer. Now I failed GCSE Chemistry, but my layperson's understanding is that your average burger bun contains about 1.2% alcohol! fsm-online.co.uk/leyton-orien...

A new Explainer out from @aoifemod.bsky.social and me detailing the UK's ECHR commitments under the 1998 Agreement in response to recent speculation. It is short, because there is very little to say - the UK's obligations are evident on the B/GFA's plain text: caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...