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I'm excited to announce a new collection I've edited with Policy Exchange on the UK's political constitution. Essays on party leaders, the Ministerial Code, the war prerogative, government lawyers, Commons & Lords, hereditary peers, devolution, international law, ECHR, & more!

Was honoured to have contributed to this great collection on the UKs political constitution. The UKs political constitution has evolved in a way that has served it well. In my contribution with Yuan Yi Zhu we argue that the political ministerial status of the Attorney General is

Chief Justice Wagner appears to give a formal judicial imprimatur to his earlier comments about the value of precedent. A good time to reshare what Kerry and I had to say about those comments last October.

Read my history of how this travesty was enacted here. thecritic.co.uk/bring-back-the…

Babe wake up, a new right in public nuisance just dropped! Toronto District School Board v. Meta Platforms Inc., 2025 ONSC 1499 <canlii.ca/t/kb4jm>

Timely reminder that securing the right to life and security of the person depends on legislative action to specify limits on conduct that imperils those rights — it’s for the legislature, not the courts, to determine how many metres from a school an injection site can operate.

This was a great talk on an important (and difficult) topic. I hope you will give it a listen.

I enjoyed speaking about 10 years of euthanasia in Canada at McGill University's Runnymede Society chapter. I was told that some of my remarks about the senior Canadian judiciary were "controversial", if that's any inducement to listen to this.

'It’s outrageous that intentionally, violently taking another life can count for so little' nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-…

The Notwithstanding Clause is part of our constitution.

.Pierre Poilievre promises to overturn R v Bissonnette, one of the least defensible Supreme Court of Canada decisions in living memory, using the Notwithstanding Clause.

A specific and reasoned campaign pledge to deploy the notwithstanding clause to overturn R. v. Bissonnette, 2022 SCC 23 — testing Chief Justice Wagner’s claim that imposing consecutive life sentences for mass murderers “is contrary to the fundamental values of Canadian society.”

Probably a good time to share some stuff I've written on section 33 over the years. 🧵with links below.

“Although the text of the Charter certainly guarantees rights to everyone, judicial interpretation has over time undermined its universal character.”

Federal courts in Ontario have now ruled almost every kind of policy decision—from whether math teachers should be required to pass math tests, to fiscal crisis-induced wage restraints, to the province’s climate change strategy—to be unconstitutional. Next up: bike lane policy.

If anyone is interested: The strange case of Melanie Field: is an individual civil servant’s views on policy relevant in legislative interpretation… medium.com/p/the-strange-…