Philip Murray
@philipmurray.bsky.social
Law lecturer @robinsoncollege.bsky.social / @cambridgelaw.bsky.social.
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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“THE KING has been pleased by Warrant under His Royal Sign Manual dated 30 October 2025 to direct His Secretary of State to cause the Duke of York to be removed from the Roll of the Peerage with immediate effect.” thegazette.co.uk/notice/4992105
Warrants Under the Royal Sign Manual
thegazette.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“THE KING has been pleased by Warrant under His Royal Sign Manual dated 30 October 2025 to direct His Secretary of State to cause the Duke of York to be removed from the Roll of the Peerage with immediate effect.” thegazette.co.uk/notice/4992105
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NEW
An instance of the royal prerogative
Why an Act of Parliament was not needed to remove the title from the former Duke of York
By me
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Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/11/an-i...
An instance of the royal prerogative
Why an Act of Parliament was not needed to remove the title from the former Duke of York
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/an-instanc...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/11/an-i...
An instance of the royal prerogative
Why an Act of Parliament was not needed to remove the title from the former Duke of York
emptycity.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
NEW
An instance of the royal prerogative
Why an Act of Parliament was not needed to remove the title from the former Duke of York
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/an-instanc...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/11/an-i...
An instance of the royal prerogative
Why an Act of Parliament was not needed to remove the title from the former Duke of York
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/an-instanc...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/11/an-i...
Removal from the Roll of Peerage might deprive someone of the precedence and forms of address attaching to a peerage, but legally that person is still a peer. And removal from the roll does not stop a prince being a prince.
Prince Andrew CAN renounce his peerage without an Act of Parliament
Reports have suggested there is no easy way to remove or renounce the title of Duke of York - but a little-known mechanism could effectively do so easily and immediately
nigelfletcher.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Removal from the Roll of Peerage might deprive someone of the precedence and forms of address attaching to a peerage, but legally that person is still a peer. And removal from the roll does not stop a prince being a prince.
A constitutional question: maintaining the roll of the peerage is the responsibility of a government minister, viz the Lord Chancellor. It's maintained by the Ministry of Justice. Is the King able independently to instruct the Lord Chancellor to remove someone from the roll, or can he only do so...
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A constitutional question: maintaining the roll of the peerage is the responsibility of a government minister, viz the Lord Chancellor. It's maintained by the Ministry of Justice. Is the King able independently to instruct the Lord Chancellor to remove someone from the roll, or can he only do so...
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I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
It’s regularly said that when Parliament excludes judicial review, it does something so constitutionally intolerable that the courts can legitimately resist such efforts. The history of English administrative law tells a different story.
The article will be published by the Law Quarterly Review next summer, but a draft as accepted for publication can now be read on SSRN. We hope you enjoy it! Here's the link to the article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Ouster Clauses and the Common Law: a Historical Reappraisal
This article traces the development of English administrative law's approach to ouster clauses, re-assessing the idea that ouster clauses have always been treat
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October 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
It’s regularly said that when Parliament excludes judicial review, it does something so constitutionally intolerable that the courts can legitimately resist such efforts. The history of English administrative law tells a different story.
I'm glad to share a new article from me and Paul Warchuk from the University of New Brunswick on the history of ouster clauses and the common law. We trace the law's approach to ouster clauses over 300 years, re-assessing the idea that ousters have always been considered constitutionally repugnant.
October 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I'm glad to share a new article from me and Paul Warchuk from the University of New Brunswick on the history of ouster clauses and the common law. We trace the law's approach to ouster clauses over 300 years, re-assessing the idea that ousters have always been considered constitutionally repugnant.
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I agree with Joshua that this intervention is by the Human Rights Commissioner is spectacularly badly timed.
At a moment where two of the four largest political parties in the UK are advocating an exit from the Convention system, his criticisms seem tin eared.
At a moment where two of the four largest political parties in the UK are advocating an exit from the Convention system, his criticisms seem tin eared.
The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner has intervened in a series of criminal prosecutions currently before the courts of England and Wales.
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Policing protest prosecutions
Council of Europe human rights commissioner seeks to lay down the law
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October 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I agree with Joshua that this intervention is by the Human Rights Commissioner is spectacularly badly timed.
At a moment where two of the four largest political parties in the UK are advocating an exit from the Convention system, his criticisms seem tin eared.
At a moment where two of the four largest political parties in the UK are advocating an exit from the Convention system, his criticisms seem tin eared.
@robinsoncollege.bsky.social are looking for a new Junior Research Fellow from a variety of humanities and social sciences, including law. Join us! www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/about-robins...
Isaac Newton/College Junior Research Fellowship 2026 | Robinson College
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October 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
@robinsoncollege.bsky.social are looking for a new Junior Research Fellow from a variety of humanities and social sciences, including law. Join us! www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/about-robins...
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A new paper from Philip Murray and me: 'In Defence of Classical Administrative Law'. We argue that the voidness of unlawful administrative acts is central to the rule of law and that recent challenges to that view can and should be resisted.
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In Defence of Classical Administrative Law
In a recently completed paper, Philip Murray and I develop a defence of what we term the classical account of administrative law. The question with which we are centrally concerned is whether (as t…
publiclawforeveryone.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A new paper from Philip Murray and me: 'In Defence of Classical Administrative Law'. We argue that the voidness of unlawful administrative acts is central to the rule of law and that recent challenges to that view can and should be resisted.
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/09/16/i...
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/09/16/i...
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"A single human soul is worth more than the whole universe of material goods. There is nothing higher than the immortal soul, save God. With respect to the eternal destiny of the soul, society exists for each person and is subordinated to it." — Jacques Maritain, The Person and the Common Good
September 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"A single human soul is worth more than the whole universe of material goods. There is nothing higher than the immortal soul, save God. With respect to the eternal destiny of the soul, society exists for each person and is subordinated to it." — Jacques Maritain, The Person and the Common Good
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We do not live in a tyranny. Using armed officers to arrest a man at an airport over a series of tweets is the sort of thing one would expect to happen in Russia or North Korea.
People will remember this when the police next claim to be under resourced.
People will remember this when the police next claim to be under resourced.
September 3, 2025 at 5:22 AM
We do not live in a tyranny. Using armed officers to arrest a man at an airport over a series of tweets is the sort of thing one would expect to happen in Russia or North Korea.
People will remember this when the police next claim to be under resourced.
People will remember this when the police next claim to be under resourced.
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Reflecting on the Graham Lineham story this morning, unless there is something more that hasn’t been reported, assuming that the Met Police was responsible for this ‘operation’ I think the Commissioner should resign.
September 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Reflecting on the Graham Lineham story this morning, unless there is something more that hasn’t been reported, assuming that the Met Police was responsible for this ‘operation’ I think the Commissioner should resign.
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I don't particularly agree with his views, but if he has been arrested over these three tweets then that's completely ridiculous.
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I just got arrested again
I arrived back in London to discover the UK is still a police state run by trans activists
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September 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I don't particularly agree with his views, but if he has been arrested over these three tweets then that's completely ridiculous.
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On where UK Bluesky does have a blind spot, I haven’t seen anything on here about the vandalism of Policy Exchange’s office (see below). This kind of stuff should be called out and criticised and I’m very happy to do so.
August 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
On where UK Bluesky does have a blind spot, I haven’t seen anything on here about the vandalism of Policy Exchange’s office (see below). This kind of stuff should be called out and criticised and I’m very happy to do so.
I'm afraid to say the Bodleian is significantly nicer to work in than Cambridge's UL.
August 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'm afraid to say the Bodleian is significantly nicer to work in than Cambridge's UL.
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Let’s be clear. The problem is the Online Safety Act. It’s not Labour, it’s not the Tories, it’s both of them. The act had cross party support.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
August 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Let’s be clear. The problem is the Online Safety Act. It’s not Labour, it’s not the Tories, it’s both of them. The act had cross party support.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
Good stuff from @profmarkelliott.bsky.social. Mark's right, I think, that the Supreme Court's recent practice of issuing bland, single judgments "has arguably had the effect of oversimplifying, or at least obscuring important and contentious issues". publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/29/t...
The Supreme Court’s judgment in Shvidler: Lord Leggatt’s Liversidge v Anderson moment
Today’s Supreme Court’s judgment in Shvidler v Foreign Secretary addresses key issues about the role of courts generally and appellate courts in particular when it comes to applying the propo…
publiclawforeveryone.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Good stuff from @profmarkelliott.bsky.social. Mark's right, I think, that the Supreme Court's recent practice of issuing bland, single judgments "has arguably had the effect of oversimplifying, or at least obscuring important and contentious issues". publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/29/t...
This is a brilliant choice. Lord Smith will be an excellent Chancellor for the the University of Cambridge. www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-cha...
New Chancellor elected at the University of Cambridge
Lord Chris Smith has been elected as the new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
www.cam.ac.uk
July 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is a brilliant choice. Lord Smith will be an excellent Chancellor for the the University of Cambridge. www.cam.ac.uk/news/new-cha...
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As someone who couldn't have undertaken a PhD without funding, the AHRC scholarship I received (many years ago) was life-changing. It's incredibly concerning that the the next generation of prospective academics are being denied such opportunities. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...
‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’
Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
As someone who couldn't have undertaken a PhD without funding, the AHRC scholarship I received (many years ago) was life-changing. It's incredibly concerning that the the next generation of prospective academics are being denied such opportunities. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...
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Two quick points about today's Braverman/Prosperity Institute report on ECHR exit & the GFA.
(i) Advocating a return to the legal situation that applied in Northern Ireland in 1969 is an interesting choice of approach. (Cue the quote about the Bourbons forgetting nothing & learning nothing.)
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(i) Advocating a return to the legal situation that applied in Northern Ireland in 1969 is an interesting choice of approach. (Cue the quote about the Bourbons forgetting nothing & learning nothing.)
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July 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Two quick points about today's Braverman/Prosperity Institute report on ECHR exit & the GFA.
(i) Advocating a return to the legal situation that applied in Northern Ireland in 1969 is an interesting choice of approach. (Cue the quote about the Bourbons forgetting nothing & learning nothing.)
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(i) Advocating a return to the legal situation that applied in Northern Ireland in 1969 is an interesting choice of approach. (Cue the quote about the Bourbons forgetting nothing & learning nothing.)
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Another decision, this time from Scotland, on the "narrowly drawn" exceptions to the Cart ouster in the TCEA 2007:
www.bailii.org/scot/cases/S...
Gabriel Tan @finishedloading.bsky.social discussed a similar English court case here back in May:
administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/c...
www.bailii.org/scot/cases/S...
Gabriel Tan @finishedloading.bsky.social discussed a similar English court case here back in May:
administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/c...
Access denied
www.bailii.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Another decision, this time from Scotland, on the "narrowly drawn" exceptions to the Cart ouster in the TCEA 2007:
www.bailii.org/scot/cases/S...
Gabriel Tan @finishedloading.bsky.social discussed a similar English court case here back in May:
administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/c...
www.bailii.org/scot/cases/S...
Gabriel Tan @finishedloading.bsky.social discussed a similar English court case here back in May:
administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/c...