Happy new year all!

Another rock and roll NY eve playing the Bodleian game!

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‘Hello darkness my old friend…’ etc

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Judicial Review and Good Administration: Refining the Public Interest Model of Judicial Intervention Abstract. While UK judicial review is comparatively under-theorised, the literature has been catching up, with numerous theoretical underpinnings now ident

Excited to see an advance version piece - using public policy ideas to rethink JR - up online now. academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...

It’s part of a bigger project so if interested to discuss please drop me a line. (Or pass on to anyone you think might have an interest!)

Yes - good point - cite Norris, HH, Love, Andrysiewicz etc, discuss facts, reject.

Any politicians concerned about JR undermining government can allay their concern by spending a day reading new Admin Court judgments - it’s just relentless appeals against extradition and professional misconduct decisions.

When are you coming to Banbury, England?

JR bingo here! Nearly a full house!

UK's first 'super-university' to be created as two merge from 2026 Universities are facing ongoing financial worries, with the regulator saying other mergers could follow.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Doubt this’ll be the last of these.

You may have your birthday off, come what may, but this constitutes your leave for the year.

Chill Colin - PolEx has sorted it. ;-)

I’m yet to be convinced that ‘leaving stuff’ constitutes a coherent and sufficient policy package. It seems some differ, including those who ought to know better.

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Looks great, will check out. Is the answer onwards and upwards to a glorious golden age?

Charitably, maybe they mean in respect of the same accused in the same case, which is trivially true.

90% of prisoners are locally born, wld be another way of putting it.

Guess ’2008 financial crash’ is sort of the equivalent? (If not quite ‘on all fours’).

It’s the bit where McSweeney scrawls ‘let Starmer be Starmer’ on a napkin, and then everything’s grand.

Yes but they won’t be spiritually fulfilled in the way that academics are, and you can’t put a price tag on that.

Room on the broom criminally under-ranked here

Campaign in drivel, govern in line with statutory duty.

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The US ones are all also about 3000 pages long so I doubt he has time.

It would be a better world if reporting on the Supreme Court trans decision could avoid suggesting that the court has some magic power to define words in general. How long would it take to say ‘in the Equality Act’?

As long as no wee came out, you’re grand.

Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs New Civil Liberties Alliance says president’s invocation of emergency powers to impose tariffs is unlawful

This is going to blow their minds - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The principle of legality and heightened-scrutiny rationality review: The Supreme Court’s judgment in the Spitalfields case A few weeks ago, I wrote about Chamberlain J’s judgment in KP v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs [2025] EWHC 370, welcoming the subtle and structured appro…

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