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Why does the EU find the foreign agent law in Georgia against their values?
The draft law would require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as "foreign agents".
The EU, which gave Georgia candidate status in December, has ...
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What is the distribution of illegal acts defined by the Computer Misuse Act actually done by children in the UK?
The UK National Crime Agency has annonced that one in five children are being criminalised by the Computer Misuse Act (CMA). They warn of life changing consequences for the children involved.
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How common is it to price a law by the cost of putting up signs?
The BBC is describing the new 20mph speed limit in urban Wales as "the £34m law" which appears to be a reference to "the cost of bringing in the new signs".
If one was to attempt ...
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Why doesn't the UK government end "bona vacantia"?
It has recently been reported that King Charles benefits from the estates of those who pass away without leaving a will or next of kin. Apparently this takes place via ancient feudal laws known as &...
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What could have been the intended purpose of Section 10(2) of the criminal law act 1977?
Section 10(1) CLA 1977 creates an offence of obstructing a judicial enforcement officer effecting enforcement of a court order for recovery of possession of property.
But section 10(2) explicitly ...
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If UK government "ignored the law" on asylum seekers, what are the consequences? [duplicate]
The UK government wants to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, but the proposed policy has been ruled unlawful by the UK Supreme Court.
The Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson is widely reported ...
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Why did Parliament set out a tribunal procedure for RROs and for recovery of prohibited payments but not for deposit protection claims?
Tenant fees act 2019 allows for recovery of prohibited payments in the relatively accessible and informal tribunal setting.
Housing Act 2004 also sets out the RRO procedure in the same accessible ...
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Why are India's sedition laws still on the books?
Why India has not done away with archiac and abusive sedition laws once imposed by Colonial British rule?
It is not a political issue as all the major parties that have governed India since 1947 have ...
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What are the main concerns regarding the new powers recently given to the police to curtail protests?
In the wake of the arrest of a man in Edinburgh for apparently heckling Prince Andrew, a woman called Mariángela also being arrested in Edinburgh for holding a sign that said “**** imperialism, ...
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What would it take to change the voting in the UK away from "first past the post"?
Question from a naive US citizen here: In a podcast from the BBC I heard it claimed that there are districts with a Tory representative elected with 1000 votes when the other parties (combined) had ...
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Why does UK allow criminal record checks to contain "non-crimes"?
According to Telegraph UK law allows in some cases for "non-crimes" to appear on one's criminal records:
Incidents must be logged by police and can show up on a DBS check even
if officers ...
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UK Government's contract award ruled illegal. What are the consequences?
As widely reported (e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57413115) the UK Government was found to have acted illegally in awarding a contract to associates of Michael Gove (the minister who ...
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Why didn't the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporate the European Convention of Human Rights?
My Politics teacher wrote on her PowerPoint:
The Human Rights Act 1998 doesn't explicitly say that anyone has any rights. The HRA merely requires certain bodies to do certain things in relation to
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Is the British Immigration health surcharge unique in the world?
People moving to the UK for longer than six months are required to pay an Immigration health surcharge. I.e., they pay a tax when they request a Visa to be allowed to use the National Health Service (...
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Why did HWR Wade write that passports have "no status or legal effect at common law whatever"?
Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (2019, 4th edition), page 316:
Moreover, since Wade says that prerogative decisions must affect rights, he argues that a decision by the UK government to ...
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