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Sir Michael Tugendhat: Even judges need help

July 27, 2017

Last month the Prime Minister appointed my former judicial colleague Sir Martin Moore-Bick to chair the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire. The terms of reference of the inquiry have yet to be settled, but its official website states that “The purpose of the inquiry is to discover what happened at Grenfell Tower and to

Sir Michael Tugendhat: Why 1922 offers a clue to Brexit

April 27, 2017

In 1801 the Kingdom of Ireland became part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. In 1922 it withdrew from the Union. The events leading up to 1922 were violent, and the consequences were a traumatic division of Ireland. But the arrangements for Ireland’s exit were orderly and took less than two years. They led

Michael Tugendhat: Judges are depending us all

November 24, 2016

‘Enemies of the people” was how the Daily Mail referred to the three judges who held that British constitutional law required that Parliament should vote before the Government can take Britain out of the European Union. The phrase has a history. It was used in the time of Roman emperors such as Nero. More famously,

Michael Tungendhat: Human rights don’t deserve their bad name

June 23, 2016

“Human rights law thwarts payment to victims of IRA,” reported the Daily Telegraph on June 11. It was about a statement made on behalf of the Government by Viscount Younger of Leckie, in a debate in the House of Lords on the Asset Freezing (Compensation) Bill. He described it as seeking “to prevent the release

Michael Tugendhat: Catholic Ireland’s democratic triumph

February 25, 2016

Do the British celebrate the Fourth of July? It’s a question Americans sometimes ask. The Irish might also ask: “Do the British celebrate the Easter Rising?” Of course the answer is no. But there is a lot that we could celebrate on the anniversary of these events which occurred, respectively, 240 and 100 years ago

Why the West won’t take risks

December 01, 2015

Last month 130 people, mostly young, were murdered in Paris – many times the number of victims in the attacks in the city last January. Recently there have been fatal attacks in Tunisia, Sinai and Mali, adding to a list of terrorist attacks in recent years by so-called Islamists. Attacks have occurred at ever-decreasing intervals.

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