The latest news is that my councillor reports that the Council's legal dept have examined the QC's opinion and have declared that it does not change anything!

This was the opinion commissioned by the MU that was good enough and largely responsible for the Joint Committee on Human Rights declaring the very same blanket licensing proposed by the Bill presented a significant risk of an incompatibility with people's right to freedom of expression under ECHR Article 10.

Not good enough for my council to change their current policy though. Another of my councillors said: "Well it is only one QC's opinion".

Rather missing the point that it was one more that the council had.