David Mead
@seethingmead.bsky.social
Professor of UK Human Rights Law, UEA: public order/protest/policing/free speech/human rights
Poor but inveterate punster.Converse collector. Law, politics, Derby County, & music
Man of Sussex in exile…still fighting the forced East/West partition of ‘72
Poor but inveterate punster.Converse collector. Law, politics, Derby County, & music
Man of Sussex in exile…still fighting the forced East/West partition of ‘72
Likely to depend on whether the CA quash ab initio or prospectively, a relatively new power in terms of relief the court can offer but conceptually “iffy” if we are talking about a decision determined by CA to be ultra vires
February 13, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Likely to depend on whether the CA quash ab initio or prospectively, a relatively new power in terms of relief the court can offer but conceptually “iffy” if we are talking about a decision determined by CA to be ultra vires
Very impressed Alan
I’d have been expecting questions every 20-30 seconds but no, you had the floor…
I’d have been expecting questions every 20-30 seconds but no, you had the floor…
February 13, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Very impressed Alan
I’d have been expecting questions every 20-30 seconds but no, you had the floor…
I’d have been expecting questions every 20-30 seconds but no, you had the floor…
Will probably get a bit lost in the noise, but an interesting handful of paras on the application - or not - of Bank Mellat proportionality exercise to the application of policy discretion [73]-[81]
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
www.judiciary.uk
February 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Full judgment here: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
www.judiciary.uk
February 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Full judgment here: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
Sure beats edwina currie and those bloody salmonella eggs that all students cite back at us
February 11, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Sure beats edwina currie and those bloody salmonella eggs that all students cite back at us
I have just caught it
Beyond contemplation and beneath contempt
It must (surely) be a working principle of the rule of law in democratic states - that both lawyers and officials sign up as ‘the deal’ - that you accept the right of people not in your gang to question and hold you to account
Beyond contemplation and beneath contempt
It must (surely) be a working principle of the rule of law in democratic states - that both lawyers and officials sign up as ‘the deal’ - that you accept the right of people not in your gang to question and hold you to account
February 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I have just caught it
Beyond contemplation and beneath contempt
It must (surely) be a working principle of the rule of law in democratic states - that both lawyers and officials sign up as ‘the deal’ - that you accept the right of people not in your gang to question and hold you to account
Beyond contemplation and beneath contempt
It must (surely) be a working principle of the rule of law in democratic states - that both lawyers and officials sign up as ‘the deal’ - that you accept the right of people not in your gang to question and hold you to account
Didn’t they support the Manic Street Preachers in about ‘94?
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Didn’t they support the Manic Street Preachers in about ‘94?
And one of Europe’s driving forces a distant pipe dream
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 AM
And one of Europe’s driving forces a distant pipe dream