Law According To A King

Following the July Court of Appeal's decision to allow Shamima Begum to appear in court to argue her case in person, Boris has railed against the judiciary, calling the decision to grant Begum legal aid "odd and perverse", and committing the government to review not just the legal aid policy, but the entire system of judicial review. This article will set out the case for protecting and expanding legal aid provision in Great Britain, and examine the effects of an absence of legal aid on the justice system as a whole.  The case of Shamima Begum It is likely that you will already be familiar with Ms Begum - the infamous ISIS fighter who left the UK aged 15 to fight alongside the terrorist organisation in Syria. Following her discovery in 2019 by a journalist, then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid revoked her citizenship. Begum had married a Dutch jihadist a week after arriving in Syria, with whom she had three children, none of whom survived infancy. According to reports in the T

This year has been particularly challenging for us all. COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter movement, an environmental crisis, an economic recession, and growing uncertainty throughout the world of politics. Unity is increasingly a hopeless concept, but in politics, unity is rarely apparent, nor desirable.  In Prime Minister's Questions on June 3rd , Boris Johnson attacked the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, for his criticism of the government's approach to tackling coronavirus. Johnson accused Starmer of undermining trust in the government through his questions regarding the failures of the track-and-trace system, but was the Leader of the Opposition seeking to undermine and discredit the government, or was he seeking to hold the government to account? It is taken for granted in a democracy that leaders disagree, and not always is this disagreement responsible or constructive - indeed, David Cameron was a frequent critic of the "Punch and Judy" politics of P