Mateusz Slowik
@mslow.bsky.social
Interested in law, photography, design and culture.
BPC; LLM (Environmental Law and Policy); LLB.
Previously: High Court Judicial Assistant; Research Assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
BPC; LLM (Environmental Law and Policy); LLB.
Previously: High Court Judicial Assistant; Research Assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Prof Conor Gearty on the UK Supreme Court’s legal tactics for erasing the Human Rights Act.
“The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
“The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act
The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Prof Conor Gearty on the UK Supreme Court’s legal tactics for erasing the Human Rights Act.
“The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
“The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.
September 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.
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Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1
September 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1
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Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands
All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers
www.datacenterdynamics.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
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Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
June 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
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In a stern intervention, a judge at the High Court of England and Wales issued a formal warning to legal professionals on Friday, declaring that lawyers who submit fictitious cases generated by AI could face criminal charges.
UK judge sounds alarm on AI misuse in courts
The warning comes after so-called hallucinations — AI-generated fictions — have cropped up at big law firms.
www.politico.eu
June 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In a stern intervention, a judge at the High Court of England and Wales issued a formal warning to legal professionals on Friday, declaring that lawyers who submit fictitious cases generated by AI could face criminal charges.
Judgment on the use of AI in legal proceedings by legal professionals handed down: www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/form...
Access denied
www.bailii.org
June 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Judgment on the use of AI in legal proceedings by legal professionals handed down: www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/form...
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Dane Luo: There is ‘Advice’ and then there is ‘advice’: The Constitutional Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/29/d...
Dane Luo: There is ‘Advice’ and then there is ‘advice’: The Constitutional Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister
On 23 May 2025, the Court of Appeal held that the Conservative Party was not exercising a ‘public function’ for the purposes of s 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 when it elected Liz Truss as party l…
ukconstitutionallaw.org
May 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Dane Luo: There is ‘Advice’ and then there is ‘advice’: The Constitutional Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/29/d...
Professor Benoit Mayer and I are seeking expressions of interest for contributions to a Special Issue of Climate Law journal on climate change and environmental impact assessment (EIA)🧵1/4
March 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Professor Benoit Mayer and I are seeking expressions of interest for contributions to a Special Issue of Climate Law journal on climate change and environmental impact assessment (EIA)🧵1/4
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Europa się obudziła. Unia, Ukraina, Wielka Brytania, Norwegia, Turcja - wszyscy mówią jednym głosem o pomocy Ukrainie, potrzebie ścisłej współpracy transatlantyckiej i wzmocnieniu wschodniej granicy.
March 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Europa się obudziła. Unia, Ukraina, Wielka Brytania, Norwegia, Turcja - wszyscy mówią jednym głosem o pomocy Ukrainie, potrzebie ścisłej współpracy transatlantyckiej i wzmocnieniu wschodniej granicy.
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Five months ago, I recorded a 10-minute explanation, as a former regulator, of why the UK would be not only perfectly within its rights to ban twitter, but probably ought to.
Maybe now people will listen.
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SPOTIFY 🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/6LuN...
Maybe now people will listen.
APPLE 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
SPOTIFY 🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/6LuN...
SHOULD THE UK BAN TWITTER?
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · S1, E32 Bonus · 10m
podcasts.apple.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Five months ago, I recorded a 10-minute explanation, as a former regulator, of why the UK would be not only perfectly within its rights to ban twitter, but probably ought to.
Maybe now people will listen.
APPLE 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
SPOTIFY 🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/6LuN...
Maybe now people will listen.
APPLE 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
SPOTIFY 🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/6LuN...
December 13, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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This - by Robert Saunders about the greatest Chancellor of them all (he explains why) - is a very good and thought-provoking read for the morning of the first Budget Day of a Labour Government. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2024/10/gods...
"God's Vicar in the Treasury": Gladstone and the Making of the Modern Budget
As Rachel Reeves pokes around in the corpse of the public finances, ahead of her first budget on Wednesday, her thoughts might turn to those...
gladstonediaries.blogspot.com
October 30, 2024 at 7:40 AM
This - by Robert Saunders about the greatest Chancellor of them all (he explains why) - is a very good and thought-provoking read for the morning of the first Budget Day of a Labour Government. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2024/10/gods...
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This is worth a look, if you are interested in either judicial review or improving our ability to get things built www.gov.uk/government/p...
Independent review into legal challenges against Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects
www.gov.uk
October 29, 2024 at 4:49 PM
This is worth a look, if you are interested in either judicial review or improving our ability to get things built www.gov.uk/government/p...
I am currently trying to find the ES/EIA study for Horse Hill oil project (from the Finch v Surrey County Council decision). Does anyone know where I can access it?
September 19, 2024 at 10:08 AM
I am currently trying to find the ES/EIA study for Horse Hill oil project (from the Finch v Surrey County Council decision). Does anyone know where I can access it?