Josh

Law and Politics @ Manchester University | interested in human rights and social change |

[May Bulman @maybulman]

EXCL: Modern slavery victims ‘denied access to justice’ as caseworkers face ‘culture of silence'

Staff assisting survivors under Home Office contract told 'do not comment' on cuts to support - leaving lawyers challenging decision unable to gather evidence
https://t.co/MkYXWk4FRR

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

This evening I voted against the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill.

I can't support legislation that could give undercover state agents the licence to murder, torture and commit sexual violence.

[Dr. Natasha Shotunde @NShotunde]

I am disgusted to see people suggesting that @EssexBarrister is lying. I, alongside many other Black Barristers, have experienced similar treatment. For her to experience it three times in one day is appalling. Change is long overdue. @CEOofHMCTS

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

I was told "very loudly to get out of the courtroom"

Black barrister Alexandra Wilson says court staff mistook her for a defendant three times in one day

https://t.co/PxkyecgYDB

[Josh @JoshKWicks]

The chancellor’s refusal to invest in reducing the crown court backlog leaves potentially serious offenders released on bail for YEARS, with the potential to reoffend and cause further harm.

[Josh @JoshKWicks]

The biggest threat to public safety is not “soft sentences” but years of chronic underfunding of the parole board, rehabilitation programs, the courts, legal aid and prisons.

[Ministry of Justice @MoJGovUK]

Public protection is the key principle of #sentencing.

Reforms will:

- Make Whole Life Orders default position for premeditated murder of children
- Reduce Whole Life Order min age to 18 in exceptional cases
- Stop auto release for prisoners who may become a future danger

2/5

[Josh @JoshKWicks]

International law matters, regardless of whether or not Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings like it.

[Josh @JoshKWicks]

The point of human rights has always been that the apply universally. To the good, the bad and the ugly, residents, migrants, citizens alike. The government choosing to pick and choose who deserves human rights is nothing short of fascism.

[Josh @JoshKWicks]

To walk back from these commitments is a slippery slope, not just for us, but for the other countries who will use us as an example to commit despicable crimes against their populations. The government doesn't decide who is human and who is not.

[Raphael Hogarth @Raphael_Hogarth]

She cites Miller in support. Have a look at Paragraph 55, which notes that treaties between sovereign states "have effect in international law".

Lord Reed's judgment also quotes Rees-Mogg with crisp summary: treaties create obligations on the intl plane, not the domestic plane.

[Raphael Hogarth @Raphael_Hogarth]

In dualist systems like the UK, she says, "treaty obligations only become binding to the extent that they are enshrined in domestic legislation".

This is wrong. They only become *enforceable before domestic courts* if incorporated by legislation. But that is a different thing.

[Josh @JoshKWicks]

How on earth are we supposed to have the trust of other States in negotiating new treaties and trade agreements? This is monumentally stupid and the govt law officers should resign.

[Josh @JoshKWicks]

International law and the rule of law more broadly is FAR more important. How can we stand up to other countries using the genocide convention if we disrespect international law? How can we enforce laws when the government wilfully admits breaking it?

[Adam Wagner KC @AdamWagner1]

Many reasons why the govt shouldn't be deliberately breaking international law: practical (other states won't trust us), rule of law, ethical and democratic.

But even more urgently, we need people to follow laws as Covid cases increase - a dangerous time for hypocrisy

[Josh @JoshKWicks]

Can’t wait to start my degree in Manchester next month!!

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

BREAKING: The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales today called on U.K. and other governments to impose Magnitsky sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the Uighur genocide https://t.co/23XHLzcLTT

[Andrea Prasow @andreaprasow]

Pompeo says we have to lay out a "framework" of human rights. Conveniently, there is one, and the US has already signed most of the treaties that lay it out.

[Josh @JoshKWicks]

so interesting and helpful, thanks @QueerLawyersQLT and @Evecornwell!!

[Josh @JoshKWicks]

excited for this later!!

[The Queer Case @thequeercase]

WE'RE DOWN TO OUR LAST FIVE TICKETS!!! All free tickets have now SOLD OUT, so these require a £1 minimum donation to @TrevorProject!! See you at 8PM!