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Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Blog: www.publiclawforeveryone.com. Website: www.markelliott.org
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New blogpost | Judicial review reform: the importance of grown-up debate publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/02/14/j...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Many thanks, @leonidsirota.bsky.social, for this thoughtful response to my recent post on the petition calling for a general election. I don't think we disagree fundamentally, and your points are well taken!

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Some have noted, in response to my piece on the petition (now approaching 2.8m), that many of the signatures may not be genuine. But the bigger concern is politicians' willingness to leverage such populist nonsense, as the Opposition Leader has now done. publiclawforeveryone.com/2024/11/25/o...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

I've been following this debate between my colleagues, Philip Murray and Stevie Martin, closely and have learned a lot. For me, the key issue is that, as they agree, there is some uncertainty on this matter, such that MPs will need to weigh that when they consider the Bill.

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

This is extremely concerning. Eg: 'Baroness Carr said the cases being removed from the schedule includes serious violence and sexual offences - and some of these could not be heard before 2027.' /1

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

I've written for the Telegraph about the constitutional and process-related issues that, in my view, mean that MPs should think very carefully before voting in favour of the present assisted dying bill on Friday. /1 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

I strongly agree. Senior university leadership would, I suspect, be vastly improved if those making decisions had to live, at the 'chalkface', with their consequences. There are exceptions, but the norm — ie disconnection from the day-to-day reality of teaching and research — is deeply unhelpful.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

This seems to me to be the most appropriate way forward: it gets the sequencing right and facilitates the sort of pre-legislative groundwork and consultation that is surely imperative for legislation on a subject as difficult and sensitive as this.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Former LCJ Lord Thomas raises an important point about judicial role under assisted dying bill: 'the one really difficult question that hasn’t been addressed in this is how is the judge to proceed, as it cannot possibly be a rubber stamping exercise ... [but] no one has grappled with the detail' /1

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Nearly 2.6 million signatories now to the petition calling for an immediate general election. Of course, there won't be one — but it should still give pause for thought for those of us who are concerned about the health of democracy in the UK. publiclawforeveryone.com/2024/11/25/o...

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

Not sure about geographical location, but I agree 100 per cent about the building itself. When I had the privilege of advising the Lords' Constitution Committee, once I had got over being completely overawed at having a parliamentary pass, I couldn't believe just how dysfunctional the building was.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

New blogpost | On the petition to call a general election: straight out of the populist playbook publiclawforeveryone.com/2024/11/25/o...

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Agreed. Although, the more I’ve thought about this, the more convinced I am that the position isn’t just ‘odd’ but indefensibly wrong.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

This is a surprising intervention, in which a former Lord Chancellor asserts that Ministers who are speaking out against the assisted dying bill are 'breaking the rules'. /1 www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

A very interesting interview with Kim Leadbeater on her assisted dying bill. Many of the questions in this area reduce to value judgement on which there is room for disagreement. But there are two objective matters that should give pause for thought. /1 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment