Anybody there?

[Roland Perry]

In article <20191019223750.GA76551 at davros.org>, Clive D.W. Feather 
<clive at davros.org> writes

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

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

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

-- 
Roland Perry