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Here is a fun little thread about the @ukhomeoffice'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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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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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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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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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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Ha ha, they must have thought, problem solved - no doubt giving themselves virtual high fives
But, oh dear
Oh dear
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