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February to May 2023

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2023

Frank Cranmer
Frank Cranmer*
Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University
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Extract

On 21 April, Dominic Raab resigned as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, to be replaced by Alex Chalk KC. On 8 May, The Times reported that the Bill of Rights Bill was to be dropped and that the Ministry of Justice had told its reporters that the new Justice Secretary had been ‘looking carefully’ at the Bill, while another Government source had described the Bill as a ‘complete mess’.

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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 374 - 380
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References

1 M Dathan, ‘Dominic Raab's bill of rights will be scrapped for a third time’ (The Times, 8 May 2023). Raab subsequently announced that he would not be standing at the next general election.

2 It should be noted that in Scotland, all portable antiquities of archaeological, historical or cultural significance are subject to claim by the Crown as treasure trove and must be reported. The King's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer has issued a Code of Practice on reporting finds.

3 HL Deb 24 May 2023, vol 830 c131GC. Emphasis added.

4 See <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1154100/Terrorism__Protection_of_Premises__Draft_Bill_-_Command_Paper.pdf>, accessed 1 June 2023.

5 S Braverman, ‘My mission to ensure there really is no hiding place for the evil gangs grooming our vulnerable young girls’, Mail on Sunday (1 April 2023).

6 Government Response to the Final Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1158298/Government_Response_to_IICSA_FINAL.pdf>, accessed 1 June 2023.

7 It rejected outright IICSA'a recommendation for a ban on the use of pain compliance techniques on children in custodial institutions. However, on my understanding of the meaning of acceptance/rejection it also rejected the recommendation for a Cabinet-level Minister for Children, replying that ‘This role is already fulfilled through the work of the Secretary of State for Education’ – which is almost certainly, in my view, not what IICSA meant.

8 See <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1156206/retained-eu-employment-law-consultation.pdf>, accessed 1 June 2023.

9 See <https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/non-party-campaigner-code-practice>, accessed 1 June 2023.

10 See <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1152684/The_Bloom_Review.pdf >, accessed 1 June 2023.

11 See <https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/strategy-plan/2023/03/faith-belief-engagement-strategy/documents/faith-belief-engagement-strategy/faith-belief-engagement-strategy/govscot%3Adocument/faith-belief-engagement-strategy.pdf>, accessed 1 June 2023.

12 See <https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/religion-by-age-and-sex-england-and-wales-census-2021>, accessed 1 June 2023. (As in 2011, I ticked ‘other’ – on the basis that I genuinely do not know whether Quakers are Christians or not.)

13 See <https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3054/>, accessed 1 June 2023.

14 See <https://www.gov.uk/guidance/charities-act-2022-implementation-plan>, accessed 1 June 2023.

15 See <https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/internal-financial-controls-for-charities-cc8/internal-financial-controls-for-charities>, accessed 1 June 2023.

16 See <https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/charity-annual-return-2023-question-guide/charity-annual-return-2023-question-guide>, accessed 1 June 2023.

17 McKee & Hughes v The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland [2020] NICA 13.