Live Interview with Zev Brenner on Talkline Network, New York Radio
On Sunday 31st July I was interviewed live by Zev Brenner on his Radio Station
Get Refusal – New Book “Getting a Get”
On 06 July 2022 the All Party Parliamentary Group on Get Refusal held a meeting in Parliament and on Zoom during which Lord Mendelsohn
Wednesday 20th October: Death, Destruction and Sustainability: the End of the World is Nigh’ish, with Daniel Greenberg
Join the guestlist for Death, Destruction and Sustainability
RS Surtees Society
My article Surtees And The Law appears in The Surteesian 2019-20
Editorial for Statute Law Review
My Editorial for Statute Law Review, 2021, Vol. 42, No. 1, v–vii - doi:10.1093/slr/hmab005 is now published.
Craies on Legislation – New Edition out today
I am the editor of "Craies on Legislation" and the Twelfth Edition is out today. Craies on Legislation is a practitioners' guide to the nature, process, effect and interpretation of legislation.
A Tale of Two Rabbis – Faith and Fraud
I have just launched my new book "A Tale of Two Rabbis - Faith and Fraud". The book can be purchased on Amazon at
Statute Law Review
My Editorial to the October 2020 issue of the Statute Law Review - entitled Humpty Dumpty Rides Again: Using Voluntary Guidance to Fill Gaps in Legislation - draws attention
Statute Law Review
The latest issue of the Statute Law Review has just published
5th Edition of Jowitt’s Dictionary of English Law
The 5th Edition of Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law was published in October 2019
British and Irish Association of Law Librarians
In July 2019 my article entitled Lions and Librarians: a Plea for the Intelligent Conservation of an Unnecessarily Endangered Species was published
The Coherence of Statutory Interpretation
In August 2019 a chapter by me entitled The Coherence of Statutory Interpretation: Commentary
Statutes For Students: The Essentials of Statutory Interpretation
Daniel Greenberg has written a book ‘Statutes for Students: The Essentials of Statutory Interpretation. How to Read and Apply Legislation in 40 Easy Pages’
Volume 96 of Halsbury’s Laws of England
In September 2018 LexisNexis published the re-issue of Volume 96 of Halsbury's Laws of England which includes Statutes and Legislative Process, of which I am the Consultant Editor.
Legislating for Wales by Thomas Glyn Watkin and me
In September 2018 University of Wales Press published Legislating for Wales by Thomas Glyn Watkin and me - it has been an enormously enjoyable collaboration and we have been delighted by some very kind early reactions to the book.
New book based on the Hamlyn Lectures Thinking About Statutes
On 13 September 2018 I had the pleasure of being a discussant (although really only a minor quibblant) at the launch at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of Professor Andrew Burrows' wonderful new book based on his Hamlyn Lectures Thinking About Statutes - the discussion on the panel and in the room was very stimulating, and it felt like a great launch for a great book.
Bar Council’s Counsel magazine
The May 2016 edition of the Bar Council's Counsel magazine includes a Bar's Eye View piece by the Special Adviser to the Chairman of the Bar which quotes extensively from my CPS Report (see below) on the quality of legislative scrutiny, and reports my recommendations.
My comments in Craies
My comments in Craies on Legislation on the application of criminal statutes to the Crown are helpfully cited and contextualised in a blog post by David Perry QC and Tom Williams on 17 April 2018 - Legally binding: when do criminal statutes bind the Crown?
Law Commission Consultation Paper No 234
Law Commission Consultation Paper No 234 - The Sentencing Code - Disposals relating to children and young persons: Consultation Paper published on 23 March 2018 cites my comments in Craies on Legislation in a number of places on consolidation and other matters.
What If God’s A Christian?
On 1 December 2017 the Jewish Chronicle carried a review of my latest book - What If God's A Christian? The reviewer was more than fair and I was delighted with the review.
Judicial Power Project
The Judicial Power Project of the Policy Exchange think tank published an article by me titled Judicial Ignorance of the Parliamentary Process: Implications for Statutory Interpretation on 27 March 2017
Centre for Policy Studies published a Pointmaker Report Housing
On 1 February 2017 the Centre for Policy Studies published a Pointmaker Report Housing: Now is the Time to Seize the Opportunity - the fourth in a series of Pink Planning reports co-authored by me and the economist Keith Boyfield; the report was discussed in the Daily Mail on 1 February 2017, the Mail Online on 2 February 2017 and CityAM on 2 February 2017; Thomson Reuters Foundation Place online magazine ran a report about it on 2 February 2017, and the Foundation also discussed the Report on 1 February 2017 here.
Statute Law Review carries my Editorial entitled The Broader the Power
The October issue of the Statute Law Review carries my Editorial entitled The Broader the Power, the Narrower the Power, drawing attention to the Supreme Court's decision in Public Law Project v Lord Chancellor to the effect that unreasonably broadly drafted powers will be read down by the courts.
Counsel for Domestic Legislation in the House of Commons
On 2 August 2016 I was appointed Counsel for Domestic Legislation in the House of Commons. As a result I am now winding up my City practice. I will continue with a number of my writing and teaching editorial and academic activities.
Human Rights and Reductio ad Hitlerem
Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project published a blog piece by me on 3 June 2016 about the importance of balance in the debate over the future of the Human Rights Act - Human Rights and Reductio ad Hitlerem.