Brexit Articles
Terrorism, Surveillance and Extremism
This is not a blog post as such, but a compilation. I thought it might be useful to link to what I have had to say in the past several years on counter-terrorism, surveillance and countering extremism. Counter-Terrorism In this field, my [...]
Purdah – Lifting the Veil
During this General Election campaign there have been several disputes over the application of pre-election purdah - ironically, a practice that was specifically designed to avoid imbroiling the Civil Service in controversy. My own last report as Independent Reviewer, on Deportation [...]
Brexit: the security dimension
My article about Brexit and Security ("Terrorism: the EU picture") has just been published in Counsel Magazine. In summary: The leadership role in the EU exercised by the UK in matters relating to security (in particular [...]
Brexit and the Border
I spoke in December 2016 in Belfast to the Irish Centre for European Law and to the Northern Irish Judges on the subject of "Brexit and the Border". The NI/RoI border is twice the length [...]
CJEU judgment in Watson/Tele2
This post, composed immediately after judgment was handed down in this important case on 21 December 2016, encapsulates my reaction to it. Its possible implications for the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, for the other “bulk powers” [...]
Was Britain ever part of Europe?
This Working Paper, presented in Florence as a Distinguished Lecture at the European University Institute's summer course on EU law in July 2015, explored Britain's ambivalent relationship to Europe and gave five reasons why a vote [...]