Not content with making it impossible to “go and live there” if we don’t like Brexit, the Tories are planning to repeal all the EU derived legislation. The Bill is called the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022-23. It is understood to threaten most already inadequate worker’s rights including holiday pay, working hours…
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The Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill aka the spycops bill is the continuation of the efforts of the intelligence services and the police to return to a pre-snowden/pre-ECJ dripa ruling legal state. Here are my notes and links …
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I was challenged by Michael Wilkinson of the LSE on my interpretation of he importance of the Cherry/Miller ruling on the legality of the 2019 prorogue. Suggested or discovered reading, included a review of a book he co-edited. My notes have lain around on my hard disk and I decided to tidy them up. Here…
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They’re changing the rules on IR35. They seem to have forgotten that probably its first goal was to indemnify the top of the chain from tax malfeasance; it was only a second goal to shag the horny handed sons of toil in the IT industry. A few notes …
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I have been pushed to having a look at the law and war crimes, partly, as a result of meeting again, a bunch of people who think they can substitute their own judgement vs. the Rule of Law. Here are, as ever, my notes.
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I have needed to research the questions surrounding employee status, worker, or contractor status. Here are my notes and links.
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I have today returned to the GDPR and the Data Protection Act. I was specifically interested in “legitimate interest” and wrote a blog at linkedin on the subject. Here are my links and notes,
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On Venezuela, where the US would seem to be trying to engineer another regime change in support of their oil industry, here are my notes and my diigo bookmarks . I consider sanctions, human rights and democracy …
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I did a course on employment law and here are some notes.
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Lessig’s article, “Code is Law” for Harvard Magazine is here. I have made a .pdf here and a.docx here. both hosted on this bliki site.
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I made an omnibus article of my writings on open source, culture and copyright. This was dated 2012 in the blog but references earlier material. Some of it still holds good, some of it is passed it’s sell by date.
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