Damian Green: What are the Legal and Constitutional Implications?
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Amongst all the excitement and speculation about the story, there was an interesting and sober conversation about the possible legal and constitutional implications of the arrest of Damian Green MP and the process of the search of his House of Commons office on the Insite Law Magazine podcast:
Today I am talking to Carl Gardner, a barrister, ex government lawyer and author of The Head of Legal blog about the extraordinary arrest by Police of shadow frontbench spokesman on Immigration, Damien Green MP.
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This is in 5 sections:
(1) The power of arrest and the potential charge.
(2) The PM, Home Secretary and senior government ministers did not know about the arrest in advance, yet The Speaker, David Cameron and Mayor Boris Johnson did – why?
(3) The Speaker’s role – he authorised the search
(4) Cross party anger and irritation and
(5) Will there be a prosecution.
A good conversation. Via Insite Law Magazine.
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