Jon Holbrook

A barrister based in London. He writes regularly for spiked-online.com and in 2014 was shortlisted for the Halsbury Legal Journalism award. Follow him on Twitter @JonHolb.

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Global Governance: The challenge to the UK’s liberal democracy

A report by Jon Holbrook, barrister, and James Allan, Professor in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, which provides an analysis of the discourse on global governance that has arisen following the emergence of rights-based treaties.

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Jon Holbrook: Immigration policy is for the people, not the courts

There are two approaches to immigration. The legalist focusses on the migrant, a person seen as bearing legal rights to be asserted against the nation. Legalism sees immigration as primarily a legal issue resolved by lawyers having recourse to law. The democrat focusses on the nation, an organisation seen as having political interests with a territorial reach limited by borders. Democracy sees immigration as primarily a political issue resolved by […]

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