I’ve provided a written statement to the parliamentary joint committee on human rights, inquiry into safety, security and protest. You…
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Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry into the right to protest
On Wednesday 15 April I was privileged to appear in parliament as an expert witness at the parliamentary joint committee…
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legislative definitions on what is and isn’t a public space have returned
Adam Wagner does his brilliant work again summarising the new covid emergency regulations on where masks have to be worn.…
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obstruction and protest
Since the 1835 Highways Act and the implementation of the 19th century police, police have sought to control or disperse…
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Royal Historical Society lecture: ‘The contested right of public meeting in England from the Bill of Rights to the Public Order Acts’
On 5 February 2021, I was honoured to give a lecture to the Royal Historical Society, on the history of…
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new podcast
I’m experimenting with podcasting my developing ideas for the book. Here’s episode 3: legislation, which covers a parliamentary debate in…
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Public Order law and space
A quick summary here of the development of public order law in relation to space and protest and the freedom…
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Public Order acts and public space
Sometimes the shorter articles provoke the most interesting of thoughts for this project. I’m increasingly finding really rich material in…
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common land and common misconceptions
‘Common land’ The common misconception about commons is that commoners had common land ‘taken away from them’ by the general…