Adam Wagner does his brilliant work again summarising the new covid emergency regulations on where masks have to be worn. The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) (England) Regulations 2021, passed 29 November 2021 It’s like deja vu again, but about
Since the 1835 Highways Act and the implementation of the 19th century police, police have sought to control or disperse protest by classifying stationary groups of people as obstructing the right of free passage along the highway. In reaction to the Insulate
On 5 February 2021, I was honoured to give a lecture to the Royal Historical Society, on the history of the right of public meeting. It has been recorded and will be posted on their website soon. https://royalhistsoc.org/events/ Ironically the lecture came
I’m experimenting with podcasting my developing ideas for the book. Here’s episode 3: legislation, which covers a parliamentary debate in 1872, and the legal concept of jus spatiandi. episode 1 on the concept of property and the law: episode 1b on who
A quick summary here of the development of public order law in relation to space and protest and the freedom of assembly. Legislation: Highway Act 1835, s72 – used to regulate public processions Metropolitan Police Act 1839 s52 and s54 Town Police
Sometimes the shorter articles provoke the most interesting of thoughts for this project. I’m increasingly finding really rich material in legal scholarship. Gavin Parker’s article, ‘Rights, the Environment and Part V of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994’, Area, 31:
‘Common land’ The common misconception about commons is that commoners had common land ‘taken away from them’ by the general enclosure acts of the 19th century. I’ve included many ‘commons’ in that opening sentence, deliberately. Just to pick one example of the