“I can no longer, in good conscience, live with this Prime Minister. Either he goes, or I do”

Exclusive: A plan to create 39 new Tory-supporting lords as a matter of urgency, to push through contentious legislation, has been proposed by the most influential political lobby group that advises the prime minister. Political Editor Robert Peston reports. itv.com/news/2022-07-1…

Not sure what Johnson means here but it is beneath the dignity of his office. If referring to Miller No 2, unanimous judgment of the court was delivered jointly by Baroness Hale (then the President) & Lord Reed (then Deputy, but by then already announced as next President)…

Extremely alarming use of the 'deep state' idea in the PM's speech. One can only hope it was (another) reckless act of uncommitted idiocy rather than a genuine belief. Following his own Government's rightly interventionist management of the pandemic, it must be so.

🚨 We have published our report on protecting human rights in care settings. Find out more about the inquiry: committees.parliament.uk/committee/93/h… Read our report: publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5803/jtse…

"The Human Rights Act is a perfectly good piece of legislation. There’s absolutely no need to scrap it and doing so is almost bound to mean many more cases having to go to the ECrtHR and more cases that the United Kingdom will lose." theguardian.com/law/2022/jul/2…

My 7 year old niece has produced this wonderful portrait of her guncle...

Very pleased and relieved that Daniel Bedford and I have submitted our draft England and Wales report for the FL-EUR project on 'Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults'. I literally could not have done it without him! fl-eur.eu/working_field_…

SCIE is one of the joint signatories who have written to the new Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Health & Social Care, calling for a serious reform programme based on the Social Care Future vision. Read the full statement below ⬇ socialcarefuture.org.uk/social-care-le…

There are disabled people in this country currently laying in their own urine because their local councils are too underfunded to get a social care worker to help them get out of bed today.

People are stuck – stuck in hospital because there isn’t the social care support in place for them to leave, stuck in emergency departments waiting for a hospital bed to get the treatment they need, and stuck waiting for ambulances that don’t… (1/2) #StateOfCare

A busy day of bag packing...

It's been a great conference #SLSA2024 Immensely grateful to Dan Bedford Daniel Bedford & Emily Walsh Emily Walsh University of Portsmouth for their commitment, work & vision as organizers. Wishing everyone a great final day, and relaxing holidays afterwards!

Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding | Gaby Hinsliff dlvr.it/T4mx7H

📢 Calling all legal educators! We're exploring the integration of socio-legal approaches in the law curriculum and we'd love your insights. Please take a moment to complete our survey. Access it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #LegalEducation #Sociolegal #LawandSociety

We are delighted to collaborate with Association of Law Teachers & University of Portsmouth in a project to understand, support & develop socio-legal teaching in law schools. Please do complete our SLSA survey on this ⬇️

Mar 2024 updates to #Borkowski's Law of Succession published by OUP Law. New material on testamentary #capacity, undue influence, non-extension of video witnessing of #wills & revocation by #marriage. Thanks to Juliet Brook & Daniel Bedford for recent work. bit.ly/2YEOfU7

The University of Portsmouth is offering an exciting PhD opportunity to explore Establishing Human Rights Frameworks for AI Regulation. 🔗 Learn more & apply: port.ac.uk/study/postgrad… #PhDOpportunity #AIRegulation #EthicalAI #HumanRights #PhDLife #AIResearch #FutureOfAI #UoP