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Mark Tarran

@marktarran.bsky.social

Employment lawyer, Senior Editor at Practical Law. Own views.

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Mark Tarran@marktarran.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Weirdly, I think the reason many of us still prefer a constitutional monarchy is because of the relative downsides of a system in which that other man, and men like him, are able to come into absolute power.

Alice Roberts@profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m not sure why we still have a monarch. It seems like a medieval anachronism to me; a demonstration of inherited status and the the pinnacle of an entrenched aristocracy. And I’m really not sure why our monarch has gone to the US to stand next to another man with too much power, land and money.

Mark Tarran@marktarran.bsky.social · 6mo ago

As someone who grew up in Oxfordshire in the 70s 80s and 90s, cars were not then (and are not now) the easiest way to get into Oxford. Congestion was terrible and we took the bus or used one of the cheap and convenient park and ride schemes.

Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Cars are the easiest way to get in and out of town centres” Really? Try driving in Oxford! They will fight til their dying breath to keep everyone in cars at all times. They have no interest in innovations that might make places more pleasant to live, reduce pollution or reduce congestion. 23/

Mark Tarran@marktarran.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Minor bugbear of mine when people call House of Lords “undemocratic” for holding up Commons legislation. It is the will of the Commons, as expressed in the Parliament Acts, that HoL has power to revise and delay but not prevent HoC legislation. That they use this power is part of our democracy.

Mark Tarran@marktarran.bsky.social · 7mo ago

That’s not so much a “law” as an absence of law, from a bygone colonial era. These days international law is based on an underlying respect for sovereignty, and alliances between states for, among other things, mutual defence against aggressors.

Molly Ploofkins@mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…

Mark Tarran@marktarran.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I think this guardian headline misrepresents what the letter (which is addressed to the minister, not Tory peers) is saying. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Update from business groups on the Employment Rights Bill

Publication of correspondence between six key business organisations and the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the Employment Rights Bill.

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Michael Carty@mjcarty.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Business groups urge Tory peers to stop blocking Labour’s workers’ rights bill #HR www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Mark Tarran@marktarran.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Easy to say in hindsight but the gov may have had an easier time getting day-one unfair dismissal through the lords if they had already published a fully formed proposal for probationary periods (and edge cases such as spot contracts) rather than treating that as an afterthought.

Mark Tarran@marktarran.bsky.social · last yr.

Latest addition to newspeak dictionary. Political theatre: asking a question at a government press conference. Not political theatre: holding a press conference to declare your intention to “liberate” people from their elected representatives, then handcuffing a senator in front of cameras.

George Peretz KC@georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Department of Business and Trade explains what is going on. S.6 REULA is not going to be brought into force for the moment, as part of the UK/EU reset.

Dear Phil, I am writing in relation to section 6 of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (REUL Act). Section 6 was designed by the previous Government to encourage UK courts to depart from assimilated case law through the introduction of new tests for departure from such case law; a new procedure by which a lower court or tribunal could make a reference to a higher court for a decision on whether to depart; and new powers for the Law Officers to intervene in higher court proceedings where departure is under consideration, or to make a reference to a higher court about concluded lower court or tribunal proceedings. The previous Government signed commencement regulations in May to bring section 6 into force from 1 October. I am writing to inform you that the new Government has revoked those commencement regulations so section 6 will no longer come into force this October. This Government intends to look at this issue again in the wider context of its work to reset UK rela
Graeme Cowie@woodstockjag.bsky.social · 2y ago

The only part of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 which has yet to be brought into force is section 6. An interesting* development has happened earlier this month, to do with when (and perhaps even whether) this provision will ever be brought into force *Your mileage may vary 🧵