RE: Anybody there?

Ian Johnson <Ian.Johnson-yseewfJ6skFaa/[email protected]> Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:56:00 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.law.cryptography.uk
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I  personally find the commentary from David Allen Green (Ft/twitter/blog) =
the most informative. A lot of this is
PR and smoke & mirrors!

Ian

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From: ukcrypto <ukcrypto-bounces-QGMSyCZBOSwv4zxTlrOuLwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org> On Behalf Of Rolan=
d Perry
Sent: 20 October 2019 14:56
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Anybody there?

In article <[email protected]>, Clive D.W. Feather <clive@d=
avros.org> writes

>He wrote it but didn't sign it. Then wrote another one saying "delay=20
>would be a mistake".

On another list, people said a week or two ago that sending two letters wou=
ld be a "breach of the Padfield principle (Padfield v Minister of Agricultu=
re [1968] AC 997) which means that the government cannot exercise its power=
s in order to frustrate a statute"

But I haven't followed that up to see if such a principle would in fact app=
ly (although I think he *is* exercising a power by writing both the 2nd and=
 third letter).

--
Roland Perry