Wednesbury Addams. Law and policy commentary from England. I also geek out here about lore and fantasy, which are my real interests, as well as about other cultural stuff. I am often ironic and not always earnest, and so please don't take some of the things I post at face value.

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Last Notes

Artificial Intelligence and legal work - a crucial case to read
There was a routine court application which would usually go through on nod, but the judge suspected something was not right and asked questions, and this then came out.
If you must use AI, be careful.
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2026/1199.html

2026-05-22 20:00:00 CEST

NEW
The odd setting up of what appears to be a corrupt slush fund for the allies of President Trump
In which a settlement agreement is pushed far beyond any proper legal limits
At the Empty City blog
https://theemptycity.com/blog/2026/05/the-odd-setting-up-of-what-appears-to-be-a-corrupt-slush-fund-for-the-allies-of-president-trump/

2026-04-16 13:50:32 CEST

NEW
What the Chagos deal reversal tells us about the UK’s diplomatic weakness
Why British government has no alternative but to accept President Trump’s change of mind
By me, at Prospect
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/73040/trump-chagos-deal-reversal-uk-diplomatic-weakness

2026-04-10 19:10:14 CEST

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Thank you Christopher.

2026-04-09 12:34:10 CEST

Why President Trump’s threat of genocide matters
He may avoid immediate constitutional and legal sanctions, but this threat should not be forgotten
New by me, at Prospect
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/72980/iran-why-trump-genocide-threat-matters

2026-04-03 14:46:08 CEST

NEW
In a meaningful way, Meta had already legally lost the social media anxiety case before the jury trial even began
By me at Prospect
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/internet/72920/kaley-gm-trial-meta-google-serious-problem
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/116/340/840/821/438/036/original/ea58c5911af1751d.png

2026-01-12 11:43:05 CET

Notes on gangster states
Why legitimacy matters when the state has a monopoly on coercive and lethal force
New, by me
Substack
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/notes-on-gangster-states
Personal blog
https://davidallengreen.com/2026/01/notes-on-gangster-states-why-legitimacy-matters-when-the-state-has-a-monopoly-on-coercive-and-lethal-force/
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/881/710/337/431/706/original/ecfc91c7e3f4909f.png

2025-10-22 19:24:47 CEST

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Still 651 is still a good rule-of-thumb active following and makes posting here worthwhile.
I like Mastodon and I would like to carryon being active here.
Many thanks to all those who Liked - including those who felt the need to explain things to me (I know).
/ends

2025-09-25 10:45:54 CEST

NEW
The Prime Minister’s extraordinary and significant statement on MI5 misleading the High Court
A practical example of the judiciary and executive holding the security service to account
By me
Substack:
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/the-prime-ministers-extraordinary
Personal blog:
https://davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-prime-ministers-extraordinary-and-significant-statement-on-mi5-misleading-the-high-court/
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/264/055/673/988/844/original/d1503809969ac3aa.png

2025-09-04 16:35:29 CEST

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I just know that tax law makes my brain fuzz, trust law involving those without own capacity makes my brain fuzzier, and my basic knowledge of deeming provisions would not save me.
I would want to stick pencils up my nose and go 'wibble' if I were faced with this.
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/146/522/983/333/248/original/d6f3725f31985600.jpeg

2025-08-13 19:08:32 CEST

This is a good post on a disputed topic.
Am thinking of writing on the topic this week at Prospect.
https://www.ejiltalk.org/no-recognizing-palestine-would-not-be-contrary-to-international-law/

2025-07-01 23:38:29 CEST

No idea if the US will fall further into Fascism.
But it certainly will not be for the want of trying.
Extraordinary sight over the Atlantic of a polity voluntarily self-sabotaging.

2025-03-20 11:53:30 CET

NEW
“We will deport you if we have evidence against you, and deport you if we do not”
On an extraordinary witness statement from the US government - and how it has adopted the logic of the Ducking Stool
By me, at Prospect
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69560/well-deport-you-if-we-have-evidence-against-you-and-if-we-do-not

2025-03-19 10:00:07 CET

Query - help please?
Somebody once sought to work out all the rules of a sport (I think cricket?), not by reference to the rule book, but just by pure observation and induction/deduction alone from what they saw, match after match.
Ring any bell for anyone? I would love to track this down.

2025-01-19 10:40:18 CET

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A good part of the electorate accorded with the sentiments behind the Rwanda scheme, sadly.

2024-08-14 09:42:25 CEST

Challenge
A meaningful sentence please, with the word apostrophe with a possessive apostrophe - ie, apostrophe's.
(A contraction of "apostrophe is" is cheating.)
And then please follow that sentence with another meaningful sentence with the word apostrophes with a possessive apostrophe - ie, apostrophes'.