David Wolfson

Cf Neptune (Vehicle Washing Equipment) Ltd v Fitzgerald, Lightman J. “The sole director may hold a meeting attended by himself alone… He must still make the declaration to himself and have a statutory pause for thought, though it may be that the declaration does not have to be out loud, and he must record that he has made the declaration in the minutes.”

Can a committee be quorate if it sits with one person?

I wrote a 185-page legal opinion, with 450+ footnotes, making the case for leaving the ECHR. The Attorney General’s answer? Throw a pen at a pot, deliberately miss, then explain why missing was the point. He’s probably got a week left to take a proper shot at the argument.

There’s an old, grim joke about leaving a troubled man with a bottle of whisky and a revolver: he drinks the whisky and then forgets all about the revolver. Sir Keir’s legal version is to skip the whisky, leave the revolver in Turkey and only bring home the procedural point.

“Judges don’t want to get on the wrong side of the media; and they believe in media freedom” says Baroness Kennedy. Her second point reflects the law. Her first is an attack on the rule of law from someone who ran to condemn others for similar allegations. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/law…

Nigel Farage’s resignation statement today was an attempt to deflect attention from the controversy surrounding his donations. But the Reform UK leader has only got himself to blame for the public and media backlash he has faced in recent weeks, and now he is attempting to use the electorate of Clacton to evade this scrutiny, change the narrative, and save his political project. This comes as yet more proof that Reform are simply not a serious political party, and exist to serve the personal ambitions of one man. It is for that reason that we will not be standing a candidate in this by-election. We would of course stand in a real by-election following the conclusions of the Standards Commissioner, but we remain focused on the actual issues facing the UK. In contrast, while the UK suffers from a failing economy, a growing welfare bill and a desperate need for defence investment, Nigel Farage’s only plan is to hide from all this and earn a few headlines for himself. (Photo Credit – House of Commons, Official Parliamentary Portrait)

@Daniel_Sugarman @Joanna__Hardy @AudreySuffolk Pointless. You obviously need either to look in Tractate Shabbat (if it’s a hat you can wear it in a public thoroughfare, but otherwise you can’t as you’re carrying it) or Kelim (which classifies objects for the purposes of ritual impurity). Journalistic standards these days …

@Joanna__Hardy @DXW_KC @AudreySuffolk Feverishly thumbing through Bava Metzia to find out if a lid is technically a hat.

Were he to win the by-election, I think Binface would be the first Count in the House of Commons since Count Edward Raczyński (Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire 1997-2010)? However, by convention MPs may not address the House wearing a hat: a constitutional crisis awaits.

@Joanna__Hardy @AudreySuffolk I respect your opinion on this vital issue. But ultimately it will be a matter for Mr Speaker to rule on (with no appeal to or interference from a court, pursuant to Article 9 of the Bill of Rights 1689).

@DXW_KC @AudreySuffolk That’s not a hat, DWKC.

For a Prince - and also a sitting Labour Baroness - to accuse a High Court judge of a “whitewash” is disgraceful. If they think the judge got it wrong, they can appeal. But branding a reasoned judgment a “whitewash” is not criticism. It is a brazen attack on the rule of law.

I remember Lord Mackay of Clashfern saying to my late father: “Of all the cases I heard, I found the family law disputes the most difficult because there was so much at stake; so many lives”. A man of deep faith, a true Conservative, a great lawyer and a courageous statesman. RIP

Nicklin J hands down judgment dismissing claims for misuse of private information & breach of confidence brought by 7 claimants against Associated Newspapers Ltd, the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday publishers. Hannah Glover acted for Associated Newspapers Ltd.oeclaw.co.uk/news/view/clai…

Translation: I know David Lammy’s jury proposals are a total mess; I also know Andy Burnham is going to ditch them; and I’m not going to waste my time trying to defend them.

I can provide updated information ⬇️. Those who say that the @UKHouseofLords never modernises are wrong. The last time I looked, there was a vacuum cleaner.

Just don’t ask the Attorney General.

No matter which party is in power, HM Government does not beg.

Fascinating - and shows how easily legal analysis can shade into political preference. Lord Falconer is right: Sir Nicholas Mostyn’s criticism is driven by disagreement with the Home Secretary’s policy, rather than a genuinely different legal analysis. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/law…

I think you’ll find Tony Blair studied Jurisprudence, not Law (as he was at Oxford, not Cambridge). Still, it’s good to see Labour about to elect its first full-time leader who studied as an undergraduate at Cambridge (after 6 from Oxford, plus Starmer as a post-grad). Still waiting for their first female leader, of course …

If Andy Burnham, who studied English at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, becomes prime minister he will break a remarkable run of prime ministers who went to Oxford University. Since 1945, 14 out of 18 went to Oxford, the exceptions being Gordon Brown (Edinburgh) and Winston Churchill, James Callaghan and John Major, who didn’t go to university at all. 🎓 The last Cambridge-educated PM was Stanley Baldwin, who left office in 1937 🎓 In all, Cambridge has produced 14 prime ministers against Oxford’s 31 🎓 Edinburgh and Glasgow have each produced three, while eight did not attend any university Barometer | spectator.com/article/how-do…

“Lord Hermer is a lawyer, not a strategist, and should stop meddling in areas he does not understand simply to scratch a legal itch.” thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…