Thread by @davidallengreen, Here is a fun little thread about the @ukhomeoffice's "clarification" of the [...]

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Here is a fun little thread about the @ukhomeoffice& #39;s "clarification" of the Coronavirus regulations and the law - the most powerful law of all - of unintended consequences

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By way of background, the Coronavirus regulations include Regulation 6 - which prohibited you from leaving where you live without a reasonable excuse

Here it in its original form: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/regulation/6/made

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This raised the obvious legal problem of what happens if you left with a reasonable excuse but then stayed out one that excuse was no longer relevant

This created a bit of a legal and evidential mess

(Can happen with rushed legislation that has not been scrutinised)

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Well, the (supposedly) clever @ukhomeoffice lawyers thought they would get round this by a silent "clarification" made last week

Unannounced, no media, slip in an amendment

I cover it here at my @law_and_policy blog https://davidallengreen.com/2020/04/the-significant-extension-of-the-coronavirus-restriction-on-movement-and-why-it-is-concerning/

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The significant extension of the Coronavirus restriction on movement – and why it is concerning

23rd April 2020 Yesterday, slipped out without formal announcement, was a significant extension in England of the Coronavirus regulations. The extension was by way of this statutory instrument. The…

https://davidallengreen.com/2020/04/the-significant-extension-of-the-coronavirus-restriction-on-movement-and-why-it-is-concerning/

Their clever whizz-bang idea was to insert “or be outside of” into Regulation 6

Ha ha, they must have thought, problem solved - no doubt giving themselves virtual high fives

But, oh dear

Oh dear

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