Monthly Archives: April 2024

Good Law Project: Don’t back down

Posted on April 23, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

“We didn’t lose. At a deeply technical level we lost. At every substantive level we won.“ So said Jolyon Maugham KC in February 2022, in response to a High Court judge ruling, somewhat unambiguously, that “the claim brought by the … Continue reading →

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Good Law Project: Faith, hope & the Charity Commission

Posted on April 15, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

In January 2023, at the end of a lengthy blog post cataloguing the existential legal defeats that had made 2022 an annus horribilis for Jolyon Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project, I suggested “the GLP is a … Continue reading →

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Zero-hours contracts: Labour’s zero-sum game

Posted on April 1, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

In February, I questioned whether Labour shadow ministers have any idea how to implement their near totemic pledge – set out in their New Deal for Working People – to “ban zero-hours contracts and contracts without a minimum number of … Continue reading →

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