27 March 2021  /  Updated 17 July 2021
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'Stuck up there again, eh Boris?'


FreedomofAssociation
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FreedomofAssociation
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Boris and more importantly all of us will stay stuck until staying stuck is ruled out.

Someone needs to devise a streamlined set of instructions, like a simple kit, for filing and winning judicial review cases against pernicious laws. It's good we keep each other's spirits up with rational analysis, good jokes, and occasional venting, but what we really need is legal fixes, and that means the courts since Parliament is sleeping (in a bliss of unchallenged power and privilege, apparent enjoyed by Govt and Oppo alike).

Good article here: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and-opinion/jr-is-the-only-route-for-challenging-covid-restrictions/5106776.article .

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CoronanationStreet
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Legal action is the only route. I do have faith that there are several teams of lawyers looking to how to challenge restrictions, but I'm not sure who is instructing them (save for Simon Dolan).

I would by now have expected UK hospitality organisations, or at least the large pubcos/breweries to have joined forces to do so. I haven't seen any evidence of them doing anything which might just be because the work has been, thus far, kept under wraps.

Perhaps alternatively they were waiting to see the outcome of the Dolan case. But that's really not good enough.

Alternatively, lawyers acting more generally on a civil liberties brief might have been doing more but then they aren't the ones with the financial clout to bring costly JR proceedings on complex (non-established) areas of law.

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