Leading lawyers say they will refuse to prosecute climate protesters or represent new fossil fuel projects.
More than 120 lawyers have vowed to not act against activists from groups such as Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil who are "exercising their democratic right of peaceful protest".
In the light of the documentary/article/revelations about [INSERT NAME OF LATEST PREDATORY MAN], I have made note of a few phrases that I’d love to never hear again in the context of rape and sexual assault.
“Shocked and appalled”
"We should teach consent classes!"
"I dated him/married him/met him once in a Costco and he didn’t rape ME!"
I think that that's a very good question. The newspapers are speculating about state visits if #DonaldJTrump is elected, but obviously the Home secretary would grant an exception in such a case.
But if the felony convictions are for falsification of business records it seems a lot more apposite to ask whether our rules about company directors would prohibit one that was a foreign felon convicted specifically for business-related offences.
Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has appeared before magistrates to deny a public order offence after her arrest at a protest in central London. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67425936
The 20-year-old Swedish national was detained at a demonstration near the InterContinental Hotel in Mayfair on 17 October as oil executives met inside.
She pleaded not guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court to breaching Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986.
Rishi Sunak says he is "disappointed" his bill banning young people from ever being able to smoke legally will not pass before the general election. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-69058303
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is not included in the legislation being rushed through by MPs ahead of Parliament shutting down on Friday.
Selling tobacco to anyone born after 1 January 2009 would have become illegal.
But Mr Sunak said the bill was "evidence of the bold action that I'm prepared to take".
"That's the type of prime minister I am. That's the type of leadership that I bring.
"I stepped up to do something that is bold, that will make an enormous difference in the future of our country."
Labour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said: "If Rishi Sunak's idea of bold leadership is to crumble before his party and surrender his landmark smoking bill, it's no wonder the country is in such a mess." #smoking#vaping#UKlaw#UKpol
Elkan Abrahamson, who represents the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, which is a core participant at the inquiry, said the dispute between the government and the inquiry over texts and other documents had become “an existential struggle”.
He said if the inquiry did not receive the potential evidence “the only logical response of the chair is to resign because she can’t properly do her job”. #COVID19#UKpol#UKlaw
"The [European] Convention [on Human Rights] was drafted [...] in the aftermath of the horror of the Second World War, but over 70 years ago. And it's now clearly been overtaken by events"
— Conservative and Unionist Party MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, House of Commons, 2024-05-14
Your Member of Parliament yesterday represented you by stating that the #ECHR, guaranteeing freedom from slavery and torture, the rights to life and fair trials, so horrifically violated during WW2 and fought for by many, are now out of date and should be renegotiated by the United Kingdom in favour of more limited #HumanRights.
Is this your view?
Are you willing to espouse this view aloud in, say, Wickford Memorial Park?
It's the Treason Act 1842, as amended in the late 19th and 20th centuries with revised sentencing. They did away with "transportation beyond the seas" as a sentence, for starters.
And as @cstross points out, we've had this on the books for a long time. Raping the Monarch's consort has been treason since the Treason Act 1351.
That also makes killing the Chancellor or a Justice of the King's Bench treason, and does not seem to have been repealed. Interestingly, "Treasurer" probably covers the First Lord of the Treasury (a.k.a. the "Prime Minister"), but I'm not certain.
If you want a particularly gruesome example to point to, see the 1531 Act of attainder of treason that was passed to declare ex post facto Richard (a.k.a. Robert) Roose guilty of treason for attempting to poison the bishop of Rochester. Roose was sentenced to death by boiling.
The U.S. Founding Fathers ruled out acts of attainder, too. A lot of the #USConstitution is from us being really terrible in the 14th to 18th centuries. (-: