Robert Buckland says government often acts unlawfully and key thing is that it learns from court rulings

There are plenty of times when the government acts unlawfully, the justice secretary has admitted, but “getting something wrong is not the same as deliberately flouting the law”.

What mattered, said Robert Buckland, was that the government did not break the same law twice.

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