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Joshua Rozenberg
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KC (hon). UK's most experienced full-time legal commentator. Honorary bencher, Gray's Inn. Former solicitor (non-practising). Writes at https://rozenberg.substack.com
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 8h
The Crown Prosecution Service is to appeal against the acquittal of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh after a high-profile terrorism case collapsed last month. It has also explained why it withdrew charges against two men who were suspected by MPs of spying for China.

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Why cases collapsed
CPS explains why it dropped one prosecution but wants to revive another
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 2d
The next Conservative government will take the UK out of the ECHR and repeal the Human Rights Act. Kemi Badenoch announced her decision after taking advice from Lord Wolfson of Tredegar KC, who had warned her that withdrawal would not be a “silver bullet”.

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How UK could leave ECHR
Withdrawal would allow EU to end criminal law enforcement co-operation
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 3d
See this mention a month ago rozenberg.substack.com/p/exercising... subsequent links
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 3d
The attorney general, Lord Hermer KC, gave a sermon at North Western Reform Synagogue in London on Friday night. He expressed the government’s solidarity with the Jewish community and spoke about the unprecedented rise in antisemitism since 7 October 2023.
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AG says PM will fight Jew-hatred
In synagogue address, Lord Hermer condemns rise in antisemitism
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 5d
Perhaps appropriately, given the terrorist attack in Manchester yesterday — which my wife analysed last night on her own Substack — terrorism and security are at issue in some of the most interesting appeals to be heard by the UK Supreme Court this term.

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Terrorism, trade marks and tradition
New cases for the Supreme Court and new holders of ancient offices
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 7d
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?

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Consumer protection?
Or limiting the burden on business? Which takes priority?
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 8d
Victims of crime in England and Wales will have greater protection from tomorrow. In specified circumstances, they will no longer be bound by non-disclosure agreements or confidentiality clauses they have signed.

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Gags to be banned
Victims of crime will be allowed to disclose information
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 8d
Overwork
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 8d
Inner Temple, one of the four inns of court, has celebrated the appointment of its member Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill as the first lady chief justice of England and Wales by commissioning a more-than-lifesize portrait of her.

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LCJ framed
Inner Temple celebrates lady chief justice with new portrait
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 9d
The collapse on Friday of a high-profile terrorist prosecution could have been avoided if Scotland Yard had not put off a charging decision until what it believed was the last possible moment.

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Kneecap: who’s to blame?
Why did police defer a terrorism charge until it was too late?
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 12d
Not for the first time, it seems I may be getting a national identity card. In today’s Telegraph, the prime minister says his "government will make a new, free-of-charge, digital ID that will be mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament".

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No ID, no work
Mandatory digital identification for workers by 2029, PM says
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 13d
It would be “shame and a mistake” for the United Kingdom to leave the European convention on human rights, the UK’s former judge at the human rights court told me last week. Tim Eicke KC spoke to me from Essex Court Chambers, to which he returned this month.

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Don’t go, says ex-judge
Leaving the human rights convention would be a ‘shame and a mistake’
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 16d
Reports in the Sunday Times and in The Times on Saturday that the speaker of the House of Commons was “weighing up” initiating a private prosecution of two men who were suspected by MPs of spying for China strike me as bizarre.

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I spy strangers
But that does not mean I can prosecute them
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 19d
David Lammy was back on his old beat this week. How dod he and the Ministry of Justice get on?

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No cuts
More sex offenders to be offered medication
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 20d
Did the attorney general really describe reform of the human rights convention as "a political trick"?

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A political trick
But who’s the trickster?
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 21d
Attacks on the judiciary by opposition politicians and others are as misplaced as they are dangerous, the attorney general said last night.

Lord Hermer KC made his remarks during a speech on the rule of law delivered in the hall of the Old Bailey.

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Attacks on judges ‘dangerous’
Attorney general says rule of law is vital to stability and prosperity
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 21d
David Lammy’s Public Office (Accountability) Bill was published at lunchtime yesterday, a few minutes after the new justice secretary finished answering MPs’ questions. In this piece I offer an initial assessment of its main clauses and their likely impact.

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Candour bill — what it says
My guide to the proposed legislation and its likely effect
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 22d
A duty of candour is to be imposed on more than 1.9 million public servants. The Ministry of Justice says that its bill, if passed, will mean that officials “must act with honesty and integrity at all times, with criminal sanctions for egregious breaches”.

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Candour? Or no-can-doer?
Public Office (Accountability) Bill to be published today. But what will it say?
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 23d
Think of an international court that can stop foreign manufacturers selling pirated copies of British inventions in the UK. But its caselaw must do without the insights of British judges because the United Kingdom is not one of its 18 members.

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Patently obvious
Why should the UK be the missing piece in the jigsaw?
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 26d
It is “constitutionally appropriate” for the House of Lords to scrutinise the assisted dying bill “and, if so minded, vote to amend or reject it”, the Lords constitution committee says in a report issued ahead of today’s second reading debate.

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Lords free to reject bill
Assisted dying bill lacks detail, peers say, and clause is ‘highly skeletal’
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 27d
Leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would be completely contrary to the UK’s national interests, the attorney general said yesterday.

I discussed his comments with Sam Townend KC, a former Labour councillor who chaired the Bar Council last year.

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Reform begins at home
Attorney general says we must keep pace with human rights application in Europe
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 28d
The leader of the solicitors’ profession in England and Wales has said the government should create a free AI-powered tool, like NHS 111, that would help people understand their legal problems and direct them to the help they need.

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AI to replace lawyers?
Law Society president calls for government-backed advice service
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 29d
The artist Banksy acknowledges his work by publishing photographs of it on his website. So we know that this is his latest work. But look more closely at the images.

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More damage to the courts
But Banksy’s greatest offence is to coarsen public debate
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · Sep 8
An independent review of bullying, harassment and sexual harassment of barristers in England and Wales has recommended decisive action to protect the reputation of the bar from the stain of misconduct.

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Ban on bullying at the bar
‘LinkedIn is meant to be a professional network, not a dating app’, report says.
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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · Sep 8
Three new appointments in the field of justice have been announced by the prime minister, including a newcomer to government.

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New jobs in justice
Lord chancellor, minister and law officer appointed in reshuffle
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