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Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman. Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth• Also writes thrillers as S.J. Fleet. The Cut Throat Trial coming 28 Aug 2025.
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At a time when the criminal justice system is closer than ever to complete collapse, those electronic books people have made the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller #StoriesOfTheLawAndHowIt’sBroken a Kindle Monthly Deal - an absurd 99p. Read. Learn. Get freaking furious. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B075...

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Sunday Monday FINISH HIM Tuesday Wednesday FINISH HIM Thursday Friday FINISH HIM Saturday what a day FLAWLESS VICTORY

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Book now for our next Social Context of the Law discussion: 'Perverse Not Guilty Verdicts Should Remain Final' on Monday, 19 May. Speaker 🎤 His Honour Judge Blair KC The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Schiemann

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As Labour Government 2025 prepares to curtail the right to trial by jury, a reminder of what Labour Opposition 2020 said when the Conservatives made the same threat. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

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New blog: barrister Megan Cox, a crime and family practitioner at 7 Harrington St Chambers, explores the links between the criminal & family justice systems in relation to violence against women and girls and the lack of coordination between the two - www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/cri...

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There is no other word for illegally deporting a toddler with cancer apart from evil. Not just Trump and Stephen Miller but every single person involved in doing it from start to finish.

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The marathon is tomorrow. Still plenty of time to sponsor me via the big donate button at BillableHour.org. But it’s time for the story of my lowest marathon moment. /1

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Life goal: Find somebody who loves me like my electric toothbrush loves me.

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As a specialist in judicial independence, gonna go out on a limb and say that a justice minister explicitly declaring her intent to purge the judiciary is … bad.

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AND I haven't had a second to post this and beg for votes. Absolutely delighted to belonglisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025! My third longlisting but I’ve never yet made the shortlist. Voting is open until 15 May. bit.ly/TheakstonsAwards

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Good morning. Should anybody have any interest in pre-ordering a grimly authentic crime thriller involving teenagers, murder and unhinged lawyers, The Cut Throat Trial is available from @waterstones.bsky.social for 25% off with this nifty discount code. www.waterstones.com/book/the-cut...

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This is TREMENDOUSLY exciting. Neil is one of the very best in the business. This promises to be incredible.

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There is still time to send in your application for the Paris Bar Exchange 🇫🇷 There are four places available and the exchange is open to all Inns of Court. Candidates will be granted a stipend of £2,000 from the Pegasus Scholarship fund to assist with their expenses.

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Christ alive. We’re all doomed.

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Good morning. Should anybody have any interest in pre-ordering a grimly authentic crime thriller involving teenagers, murder and unhinged lawyers, The Cut Throat Trial is available from @waterstones.bsky.social for 25% off with this nifty discount code. www.waterstones.com/book/the-cut...

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Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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That’s almost as bad as the current listings in criminal courts in England and Wales.

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We can’t even *convict* foreign criminals. Nor homegrown ones. Because - and I know ministers like to pretend this isn’t true, but we will keep saying it - the criminal justice system is in absolute meltdown. So maybe address that before making little league tables of which foreign is the baddest.

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"I fuck sofas and i kill Popes. And I'm all out of Popes."

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