@OnTheWoolsack It’s a bit like the Project 2025 / Schedule F idea.
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Thomas Felpersham 🇺🇦
@TFelpersham
Connoisseur of everything. Craftsman & psychogeographer. Academic in hiding. Campaigning for complexity. Favours the wines of Alsace #gewurztraminer4life
Beigetreten Haziran 2021
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@OnTheWoolsack You’d need some interestingly worded legislation to achieve this.
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@prep_propaganda When someone indicates they are a whisky enthusiast and then they get out a bottle of Macallan 🤦♂️
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@BBCNewsnight The tagline: “Chancellor: September - October 2022” is just beautiful 🤌
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"Both France and Germany...they're flatlining"
Former Conservative Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng responds to calls to reduce trade barriers with the EU.
#Newsnight
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@legalstyleblog @RajivShah90 That’s interesting, good (and bad) to know!
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@TFelpersham @RajivShah90 (That’s on top of faculty jurisdiction rules that would apply if we’re imagining this is an Anglican cathedral )
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If this were the UK, all that would have been done is a 100k page planning application (not yet decided, only just filled)
(On a serious note someone should look at the french legal framework for large infrastructure projects, much better than UK one)
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@gifford_head @davidtorrance @yuanyi_z Yes, scratch that - I think it only applies to the Law Officers. I guess Alex Chalk was one of a few Law Officers to become Lord Chancellor later.
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@TFelpersham @davidtorrance @yuanyi_z The oddity is that I'm not sure why the LC would need to be a silk. It's not like the AG who is supposed to "lead" the Bar and therefore needs to be a silk to be a member of the inner bar (etc).
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@davidtorrance @gifford_head @yuanyi_z Perhaps the convention is limited to the Law Officers in that case. That how Alex Chalk got his.
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@jameswmullen @davidtorrance @yuanyi_z And for those of us who have had the pleasure of working in Government, we all know there’s a certain KC who basically makes it up as he goes along.
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@jameswmullen @davidtorrance @yuanyi_z I agree with you up to a point: I’ve come across several KCs who were very good when they took Silk but over time just let it all hang out and attempt to survive on assertion rather than analysis. I understand it’s quite a big issue at the tax bar.
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@davidtorrance @yuanyi_z That’s my understanding, same with the Attorney and Solicitor General.
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@TFelpersham @yuanyi_z What actually is the convention for the LC? That if not already a KC upon appointment that they become so?
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@yuanyi_z @davidtorrance It’s unmerited in the sense that they didn’t have to apply for it or provide evidence of their work or be interviewed. It’s given as a courtesy. It then creates an awkwardness on return to practice - I doubt Suella Braverman KC would be trusted with much more than a noting brief
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@gifford_head I remember the main court at Lambeth County Court (RIP) having this feel
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Notice the high ceilings, the space, the large windows to let in light—absolutely vital features of a courtroom to lower the intensity of proceedings.
I also recommend the thread for a nice painting of this room in use as a police court.
HistoryandHeritageYorkshire@GenealogyBeech
The Georgian courtroom of Beverley Guildhouse was re-modelled in 1762. The stucco plasterwork ceiling is by Swiss-Italian Giuseppe Cortese who had moved to Yorkshire. The courtroom was used for the Quarter Sessions until 1810. A new Sessions House opened at New Walk in 1814.
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@PronouncedAlva Nowt wrong with a gently political roasting at an event like that
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This is the scene (Jenrick speaking now) and this the photo of Louise Haigh that Streeting put on the screen behind him!
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Wes Streeting jokes at Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards (paraphrasing): "There's been a spate of phone thefts around Westminster lately... so watch out for this person"
And Louise Haigh is the photo behind him.
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@PeteApps I fear that the different-coloured-ties problem represents a Government that’s been housetrained by the Civil Service to continue the status quo
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So anyway, we'll still all be saying the same stuff we've been saying for years to a government with different coloured ties. Which is a familiar feeling in the country at the moment, I think
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Govt lays out plans to accelerate remediation of unsafe buildings:
- Target of 2029 for completion of all above 18m buildings
- All 11m-18m to have a plan by 2029
- Developers to double the pace of remediation of former blocks
- Fines for freeholders who 'sit on their hands'
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@msolwilliams Re: "overwhelming popular support", the polling seems to be quite patchy and records far lower support once you take away those who haven't confused "assisted dying" with general palliative or hospice care, or when "assisted suicide" is used instead of more euphemistic "dying"
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Sketch of a grim, grim day in Parliament telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…
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@philipmurraylaw @kimleadbeater (That’s a genuine and respectfully-intentioned inquiry by the way)
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@philipmurraylaw @kimleadbeater So is your objection to the Bill is a practical one? I had perhaps wrongly assumed your objection was a principled one, as a Catholic.
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Even if @kimleadbeater is right that her Bill has the safest safeguards in the world (she isn't and it doesn't), that doesn't mean they're strong enough. No jurisdiction has managed to prevent pressure and coercion.
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Nobody is asking for perfect just better than this, better than the least robust legislative process you could design, better than just 5 hrs debate, better than a bill where campaigners held the pen and omissions are deliberate policy choices.
Theo Bertram@theobertram
There will never be a perfect legislative process for introducing assisted dying. This is the process we have. This is the vote.
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