A Lawyer Writes

A Lawyer Writes

An illegal bill?

Not quite: there’s always habeas corpus

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Joshua Rozenberg
Mar 08, 2023
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Is the government’s new Illegal Migration Bill a bill to deal with illegal migration? Or is it a migration bill that we should regard as illegal? The lawyers who draft bills for government departments are bound by strict naming constraints, but I wouldn’t put it past them to have slipped an arcane joke into the short title.

Human rights

In what sense coul…

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