As Chair, i can confirm that @soclablaw.bsky.social is indeed an ““affiliated socialist society providing legal and policy advice to the Labour Party. And to Labour MPs…”.
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Am quoted (speaking for @soclablaw.bsky.social) in this piece on Farage’s half-baked proposals.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"The Reform party's policy is simply not rooted in reality. They want to institute a mass deportation programme with no real, or workable, idea of where people would be deported to. Reform's policy would require a returns policy to be negotiated with regimes such as the Taliban and Iran, and may, by their own admission, involve paying those regimes to do so. Which is impractical and extremely concerning, as well as unlawful (as our own courts ruled in the Rwanda case). Leaving the ECHR and repealing the Human Rights Act is excessive and dangerous and would put the UK in the company of Russia and Belarus, outside of the ECHR, whilst also undermining rights at home and our international agreements, not least the Good Friday Agreement, our treaties with the EU and our returns agreement with France. It would also, in all likelihood, preclude further cooperation and law enforcement in dealing with small boats coming from the continent and so increase, rather than reduce, the numbers reaching our shores.
Instead of pursuing dead end and counterproductive policies, the Labour Government has negotiated a returns policy with France, and is committed to exploring how the ECHR might be reformed, on a multilateral basis, to better deal with the reality Britain, and its neighbours face."
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Excellent new @soclablaw.bsky.social podcast "Labour Legislates" launched - with first episode on House of Lords reform with Baroness Smith of Basildon and Lord Falconer of Thoroton feeds.acast.com/public/shows... #brilliant
Surprise!!!! Labour Legislates Podcast just dropped 🎧🎧
We’ve just released the first episode of our Podcast! Yes, you read that correctly, Society of Labour Lawyers now have a Podcast.
House of Lords Reform with discussions from Baroness Smith and Lord Falconer.
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⬇️. This is very good, and the start of (we hope) a regular podcast on Labour legislation and legal issues facing the government.
Here is the evidence of @soclablaw.bsky.social to the House of Lords Constitution Committee inquiry into the rule of law. committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
We’re ending austerity - the chart
I could not agree more.
Venomous attacks on the attorney general are undermining the rule of law | Letter www.theguardian.com/law/2025/feb...
Hugely helpful for all those looking to embark on a legal career!
Great to be back out on the doorstep today, with @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social and friends from Greenwich Labour talking about how we make work pay.
Next week our Housing and Planning Group are hosting a webinar on ‘Social Housing: The Effect of Grenfell and the Social Housing Act’. If you’d like to attend please email administrator@societyoflabourlawyers.org.uk
The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
Honoured to have been elected as Chair of @soclablaw.bsky.social at this evening’s AGM. Catherine Atkinson MP will be a hard act to follow - but there is lots of work for us to do in supporting Labour in government to deliver the change that Britain needs.
Our fantastic Sunday evening panel chaired by Catherine Atkinson MP with Shabana Mahmood MP, Lord Richard Hermer KC, Sarah Sackman MP, Richard Atkinson, and Sam Townend KC.
A huge amount of excellent work has gone into producing this book, and is a must read.
