Adam Tucker
@adam.publiclaw.space
Constitutional lawyer at University of Liverpool & Bingham Centre.
Interested in legislative power and its limits. Currently finishing book on parliamentary sovereignty
But easily distracted esp by delegated legislation, and statutory interpretation.
Interested in legislative power and its limits. Currently finishing book on parliamentary sovereignty
But easily distracted esp by delegated legislation, and statutory interpretation.
Ooh - there's a rare non-parliamentary-sovereignty usage of "manner and form" in here.
(Amongst other, more significant, virtues)
(Amongst other, more significant, virtues)
Pleased to share that an article by @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social and I on ‘ivory washing’ and the responsibilities of legal academics in political discourse in Court of Conscience.
www.unswlawsoc.org/coc
www.unswlawsoc.org/coc
Court of Conscience — UNSW Law Society
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December 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Ooh - there's a rare non-parliamentary-sovereignty usage of "manner and form" in here.
(Amongst other, more significant, virtues)
(Amongst other, more significant, virtues)
Reposted by Adam Tucker
Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...
October 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...
"Permanently" I wonder how?
(Strictly speaking it's neither in the text of Milliband's speech nor the Labour manifesto. But still)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(Strictly speaking it's neither in the text of Milliband's speech nor the Labour manifesto. But still)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Labour plans new law to ban fracking permanently
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband says Labour will take on Reform UK over shale gas and
www.bbc.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Permanently" I wonder how?
(Strictly speaking it's neither in the text of Milliband's speech nor the Labour manifesto. But still)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(Strictly speaking it's neither in the text of Milliband's speech nor the Labour manifesto. But still)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
File this alongside "all primary schools must offer swimming lessons"...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Every GP practice must now offer online booking
Move comes despite opposition from union, with ministers saying NHS needs to embrace digital tech.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
File this alongside "all primary schools must offer swimming lessons"...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Just a reminder that from tomorrow, 30th September 2025, the process for accessing legal advice from GMIAU will be changing.
To help, here is an updated guide outlining how professionals can make referrals to GMIAU under the new system. Please use and share with anyone who may need it.
To help, here is an updated guide outlining how professionals can make referrals to GMIAU under the new system. Please use and share with anyone who may need it.
Visas are a means, not an end. So this also requires policies which would give these people a reason to want/need that visa - mould an attractive working environment, ensure stability for them and their families, foster a public culture which isn't relentlessly anti-immigrant. Etc.
The Labour government is moving to capitalize on Donald Trump’s bombshell plan to impose a $100,000 fee on the H-1B visa favored by Silicon Valley tech firms to hire foreign engineers and researchers.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Visas are a means, not an end. So this also requires policies which would give these people a reason to want/need that visa - mould an attractive working environment, ensure stability for them and their families, foster a public culture which isn't relentlessly anti-immigrant. Etc.
Reposted by Adam Tucker
Over 1600 people have now been arrested for offences like "wearing or displaying clothing" that arouses suspicion that they support Palestine Action. Impossible to overstate how repressive this is.
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Over 1600 people have now been arrested for offences like "wearing or displaying clothing" that arouses suspicion that they support Palestine Action. Impossible to overstate how repressive this is.
There are serious rule of law and human rights issues with how proscription under s3 of the Terrorism Act leads automatically - indiscriminately, for all proscribed organisations - to the prohibition(s) in s13 grounded in (mere) "circumstances" which (merely) "arouse reasonable suspicion" of support
12 more people charged under the Terrorism Act for supporting Palestine Action www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Manchester Palestine Action protest sees 12 people charged
Police say the charges are in relation to a demonstration in Manchester in July.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
There are serious rule of law and human rights issues with how proscription under s3 of the Terrorism Act leads automatically - indiscriminately, for all proscribed organisations - to the prohibition(s) in s13 grounded in (mere) "circumstances" which (merely) "arouse reasonable suspicion" of support
Fascism isn't "a gimmick"
Destroying our entire national community, wiping out the economy, and ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens - who now live with the fact that threat was taken seriously as a policy proposal - is not the endpoint of any "reasonable concerns"
Destroying our entire national community, wiping out the economy, and ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens - who now live with the fact that threat was taken seriously as a policy proposal - is not the endpoint of any "reasonable concerns"
September 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Fascism isn't "a gimmick"
Destroying our entire national community, wiping out the economy, and ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens - who now live with the fact that threat was taken seriously as a policy proposal - is not the endpoint of any "reasonable concerns"
Destroying our entire national community, wiping out the economy, and ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens - who now live with the fact that threat was taken seriously as a policy proposal - is not the endpoint of any "reasonable concerns"
This is the worse exposé ever!
"It was easy to buy black market tickets. 100% of the ones we bought worked fine and one even came with a free pint! Here's a handy graphic of the sellers who sorted us out, with prices. By the way, please don't do this."
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
"It was easy to buy black market tickets. 100% of the ones we bought worked fine and one even came with a free pint! Here's a handy graphic of the sellers who sorted us out, with prices. By the way, please don't do this."
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
Premier League: Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal black market tickets
Find out what happened when we tried to attend four Premier League games with tickets from
www.bbc.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is the worse exposé ever!
"It was easy to buy black market tickets. 100% of the ones we bought worked fine and one even came with a free pint! Here's a handy graphic of the sellers who sorted us out, with prices. By the way, please don't do this."
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
"It was easy to buy black market tickets. 100% of the ones we bought worked fine and one even came with a free pint! Here's a handy graphic of the sellers who sorted us out, with prices. By the way, please don't do this."
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
This isn't funny. There's something very wrong with the UK government attitude to higher education & it survived a change of gvt.
Also - more broadly - it's yet another piece of evidence that Labour government ministers and their advisers live in a weird right-wing Americanised information space.
Also - more broadly - it's yet another piece of evidence that Labour government ministers and their advisers live in a weird right-wing Americanised information space.
Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.
September 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This isn't funny. There's something very wrong with the UK government attitude to higher education & it survived a change of gvt.
Also - more broadly - it's yet another piece of evidence that Labour government ministers and their advisers live in a weird right-wing Americanised information space.
Also - more broadly - it's yet another piece of evidence that Labour government ministers and their advisers live in a weird right-wing Americanised information space.
I wonder who the Lord Chancellor he has in mind would be...
August 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I wonder who the Lord Chancellor he has in mind would be...
If you don't say the opening "hello" in its secret 0.1s window which you can't actually detect, the person you called then says "hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello?" and during that outburst it's "interrupting them" to say anything. even "hello"
I have learned that Gen Z expects the person calling to say "hello" first, instead of the person answering; upending a century of phone norms. You know what? fine, I say. Phone calls aren't what they used to be anyway www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-phone-...
Gen Z doesn't say 'hello' when answering the phone. I'm concerned.
Gen Z is making up its own etiquette rules when it comes to answering the phone. Some of them aren't saying "hello." They want you to first.
www.businessinsider.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If you don't say the opening "hello" in its secret 0.1s window which you can't actually detect, the person you called then says "hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello?" and during that outburst it's "interrupting them" to say anything. even "hello"
We can hear Oasis in the garden.
Heaton Park is 10 miles away.
Heaton Park is 10 miles away.
July 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We can hear Oasis in the garden.
Heaton Park is 10 miles away.
Heaton Park is 10 miles away.
I was really struck on my recent visit to Paris by the extent to which France is taking these kind of things (...gestures broadly) very seriously. And that part of that is a widespread sense that Brexit and post-Brexit UK is a cautionary tale, a source of example of things to avoid.
Meanwhile in the UK 💤
French prosecutors start criminal investigation of X due to alleged algorithm manipulation for the purposes of 'foreign interference' - also Grok's Nazi posts referred to national regulator - www.politico.eu/article/fran...
July 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I was really struck on my recent visit to Paris by the extent to which France is taking these kind of things (...gestures broadly) very seriously. And that part of that is a widespread sense that Brexit and post-Brexit UK is a cautionary tale, a source of example of things to avoid.
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Here I argue the Home Secretary's case that Palestine Action is concerned in terrorism is lacking in evidence, and proscribing the group is disproportionate. It will criminalise a significant proportion of civil society and be counterproductive for maintaining safety.
‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’
New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Daniella Lock | Heavy Power
During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Here I argue the Home Secretary's case that Palestine Action is concerned in terrorism is lacking in evidence, and proscribing the group is disproportionate. It will criminalise a significant proportion of civil society and be counterproductive for maintaining safety.
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Liverpool is a great city, and I think previous visitors will also vouch that it's a good place to come and talk about public law. (other disciplines are welcome too etc etc)
Liverpool is a great city, and I think previous visitors will also vouch that it's a good place to come and talk about public law. (other disciplines are welcome too etc etc)
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July 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Come and spend some time with us!
Liverpool is a great city, and I think previous visitors will also vouch that it's a good place to come and talk about public law. (other disciplines are welcome too etc etc)
Liverpool is a great city, and I think previous visitors will also vouch that it's a good place to come and talk about public law. (other disciplines are welcome too etc etc)
I was just going to send you this! But (obviously) you are on it already.
July 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I was just going to send you this! But (obviously) you are on it already.
1+2: unis should really be more tolerant of protest than the law requires them to be, but this firm is promoting (and universities are receptive to) a strategy of being even less tolerant than the law requires.
Authoritarian legal advice is not the way to define "the future for universities"
Authoritarian legal advice is not the way to define "the future for universities"
July 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
1+2: unis should really be more tolerant of protest than the law requires them to be, but this firm is promoting (and universities are receptive to) a strategy of being even less tolerant than the law requires.
Authoritarian legal advice is not the way to define "the future for universities"
Authoritarian legal advice is not the way to define "the future for universities"
2. In any event, the strategy this firm is selling - indeed actively promoting - permits/encourages unis to go further than ordinary protest law would require. The law generally requires universities to tolerate (some) protests without permission, the strategy is to shift the boundary to permission
July 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
2. In any event, the strategy this firm is selling - indeed actively promoting - permits/encourages unis to go further than ordinary protest law would require. The law generally requires universities to tolerate (some) protests without permission, the strategy is to shift the boundary to permission
The issue:
1. Maybe some bodies should be sticklers for their anti-protest rights - but not unis. It's incompatible with the mission of universities to aggressively police protest on campus. So even if the advice is legally sound, soliciting, hiding behind, and spreading it is bad practice.
1. Maybe some bodies should be sticklers for their anti-protest rights - but not unis. It's incompatible with the mission of universities to aggressively police protest on campus. So even if the advice is legally sound, soliciting, hiding behind, and spreading it is bad practice.
Not sure I see the issue with this. Article is essentially saying 'Lawyers who got a good result for client asked to advise on other similar cases.'
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...
British law firm coached universities on how to obtain sweeping protest bans
Revealed: Shakespeare Martineau LLP, which helped Cardiff get year-long ban on unauthorised action, promoted court orders at webinar
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The issue:
1. Maybe some bodies should be sticklers for their anti-protest rights - but not unis. It's incompatible with the mission of universities to aggressively police protest on campus. So even if the advice is legally sound, soliciting, hiding behind, and spreading it is bad practice.
1. Maybe some bodies should be sticklers for their anti-protest rights - but not unis. It's incompatible with the mission of universities to aggressively police protest on campus. So even if the advice is legally sound, soliciting, hiding behind, and spreading it is bad practice.
This is true. I'd add:
11. This isn't something a government is ever likely to pursue unilaterally. The most realistic way to get this reform on the statute book is for the Lords to amend it into a government proposal which - inevitably - lacks it. And (Meg's number 4) that means this one.
11. This isn't something a government is ever likely to pursue unilaterally. The most realistic way to get this reform on the statute book is for the Lords to amend it into a government proposal which - inevitably - lacks it. And (Meg's number 4) that means this one.
NEW BLOG: 10 reasons why the hereditary peers bill should be amended to constrain Prime Ministerial patronage and the size of the House of Lords
Ahead of the hereditary peers bill's report stage starting in the Lords tomorrow, our Director, Meg Russell, sets out why peers should amend the bill.
Ahead of the hereditary peers bill's report stage starting in the Lords tomorrow, our Director, Meg Russell, sets out why peers should amend the bill.
10 reasons why the hereditary peers bill should be amended to constrain Prime Ministerial patronage and the size of the House of Lords
The government’s House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill reaches its report stage in the chamber this week – presenting a serious moment for possible amendments. Meg Russell argues that peers should…
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July 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is true. I'd add:
11. This isn't something a government is ever likely to pursue unilaterally. The most realistic way to get this reform on the statute book is for the Lords to amend it into a government proposal which - inevitably - lacks it. And (Meg's number 4) that means this one.
11. This isn't something a government is ever likely to pursue unilaterally. The most realistic way to get this reform on the statute book is for the Lords to amend it into a government proposal which - inevitably - lacks it. And (Meg's number 4) that means this one.
This looks right up Emma Waring's street.
(I don't think Emma is on here. Can someone bring it to her attention so my pun isn't totally wasted?)
(I don't think Emma is on here. Can someone bring it to her attention so my pun isn't totally wasted?)
My latest: An absolutely brain-melting story in which a main road in desperate need of repair is somehow vanished from legal existence. 🤯
The unfixable road that was vanished
A main road through a small town is in desperate need of repair. There's just one small problem: for all intents and purposes, it doesn't exist.
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June 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This looks right up Emma Waring's street.
(I don't think Emma is on here. Can someone bring it to her attention so my pun isn't totally wasted?)
(I don't think Emma is on here. Can someone bring it to her attention so my pun isn't totally wasted?)
There's one in Coughlan.
June 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
There's one in Coughlan.
The answer endorsed by the electorate was:
"by setting out a new memorandum of understanding outlining how the nations will work together for the common good"
"by setting out a new memorandum of understanding outlining how the nations will work together for the common good"
June 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The answer endorsed by the electorate was:
"by setting out a new memorandum of understanding outlining how the nations will work together for the common good"
"by setting out a new memorandum of understanding outlining how the nations will work together for the common good"