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Laworfiction is a website for ordinary citizens, including lawyers, to understand their rights and how they have been affected, or not, as a result of the UK government’s response to Covid-19. Leaving aside argument over the cost to lives and livelihoods resulting from the sustained lockdown policy and economic damage resulting, the dressing up of unenforceable policy guidance as enforceable rule of law is an issue of serious public concern.

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The birth of Law or Fiction

On 18th March 2020, the Prime Minister and Education Secretary announced to the country that, after schools shut their gates on the afternoon of Friday 20th March they would, for the vast majority of pupils, remain closed until further notice.

In response to various aspects of lockdown, businessman Simon Dolan filed a judicial review application in the Courts.  Among the complaints was that the government and its ministers did not have the legal authority to close the schools as they did.  The defence filed in Court was that government ministers didn’t order closures of the schools!  Instead, they say:

“This was a request, not a direction.”

Ordinary citizens listening to the government message had thought that the government had forced the schools to close and was exercising its authority to do so. The defence in Court was nothing less than the government admitting its ministers had been either ignorant or duplicitous in their communications with the public.

Representation was made to the public of the existence a legal obligation that was, in truth, fictional. When ‘requests’ or unenforceable guidance are promoted by government and in mainstream media as enforceable rules of law, we are being misled.

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Information and posts published to this website hope to help bring clarity to issues where the public may be confused by reports in the mainstream media.  Many issues have complications that cannot be addressed in full so as to be digestible for most readers and without going into complex and difficult legal arguments. Accordingly and in any event, posts and articles or template letters on this website should not be taken to be comprehensive or authoritative statements of the law and may reflect opinion of author. The contents of this site are for general information purposes only. In using this website you accept our disclaimer. This site is owned by Laworfiction, a trading name of Jackson Osborne Ltd  company no. 8087592, a law firm authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, SRA no. 569224. The professional rules  applicable to this firm can be accessed at www.sra.org.uk