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NLJ this week: Bubbles & others

25 June 2020
Issue: 7892 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19
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Confused by the lockdown laws? You’re not alone. Writing in this week’s NLJ, Peter Thompson QC takes a tongue-in-cheek but informative look at COVID-19 rule

From the perspective that ‘love makes the world go round’, Thompson identifies some twists and quirks among the restrictions, including that ‘a lover’s visit to Professor Ferguson’s abode today would be an illegal gathering indoors and tickets all round unless he could show that they had chosen to be a linked household’.

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Issue: 7892 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19
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