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This is an exceptional piece of writing by an anonymous barrister recently diagnosed with ADHD. www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/adh...

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

As a lawyer who does Equal Pay law it is interesting to note that the prospect of young men falling behind young women is causing a sense of societal crisis that the reverse position consistently failed to invoke.

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK. Extraordinary.

submitted 21 days ago • 248 comments

This handsome boy is Mully. A v healthy 10yrs young, he urgently needs a loving new home as he hates his sister & living in a conflict zone is not good for any of us! He is a real love bug & purrs like a train. He likes to explore our small garden & play with his toys & would be a great companion

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

This is a new one: Victim about to deliver an impact statement in court, defence barrister raises a concern that it has been ‘generated by AI’ Victim says she put it through a computer system to check spelling, but denies the entire thing is AI generated.

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

I will never understand how this wasn’t the end for either of these deranged brats. Every milquetoast brownnoser who elevated or defended them hoping for a crumb from their unearned power should be ashamed. You knew. The evidence was right there. But you liked standing near the big boys.

submitted 31 days ago • 24 comments

Undergraduate contract lawyers, your time is now.

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

Writing for Prospect, John Bowers KC of Littleton Chambers says, "there needs to be a duty placed on employers to investigate #whistleblowing concerns—save where they are vexatious, as some are. This is vital to closing the accountability gap."

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Valentine's Day doesn't have to be about the big spectacle. Whether you're with someone or with your own good self, stay true to the story you want, unfolding in its own time.

submitted 37 days ago • 18 comments

Higgs v Farmor's School is out. A victory for the claimant. The CA judgment is mega-long for the CA (181 paras) but you can skip to para 175 for the "broad summary" if you wish (though Underhill LJ stresses it's no substitute for a careful read! www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The curious thing about billionaires defying the rule of law and the orders of the court, is that their wealth depends entirely on enforceable legal rights: contract, property, and so on. Those saying court orders have no value need to be careful what they wish for.

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

It is an honour to present my research with Protect — the UK’s leading whistleblowing charity. Taking 3 whistleblowing scandals as costed examples, we show that failing to strengthen whistleblowing protection is costing the taxpayer billions of pounds. Read it here: lnkd.in/efkqHZzV

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

January 25 2025, Regent’s canal, shepherd’s delight

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

New The coming battle between social media and the state Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength By me, in todays @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/917c...

submitted 71 days ago • 7 comments

Totally agree www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

OBE's for: Lee Castleton Josephine Hamilton Christopher Head Dr Kay Linnell, Forensic Accountant, Expert Witness and Key Adviser to the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance. Seema Misra Rebecca Thomson, Journalist, Computer Weekly. Campaigner for Subpostmasters. For services to Justice

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Manchester Civil Justice Centre with the low-rise Manchester Crown Court (Crown Square) in the foreground. The CJC is the best new court building we've put up in England in decades & one of very few recent ones that really shows a commitment to the idea that courts should be prominent.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

What a woman. What a life. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/w...

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Forest Frost, Buckinghamshire 2023. An image from a wonderful morning last December. I posted here last year but I thought it would be good to see it again. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #trees #landscapephotography

submitted 103 days ago • 13 comments

imo grimly interesting that a lot of the current wave of misogynists don't even seem to be attracted to women, for whatever reason, feel like old school sexism was "we don't respect them but we want to fuck them", whereas this just reads like weird, poisonous, furious asexual resentment

submitted 98 days ago • 53 comments

A man who tried to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers has been jailed for nine years, the joint-longest prison sentence in connection with the UK's summer of riots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 100 days ago • 120 comments

Disciplinary tribunal finds 3 charges of professional misconduct proven against former @TheCriminalBar chair Jo Sidhu KC for inappropriate sexual behaviour with aspiring barrister - 7 charges not proven - in @thetimes.com. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Staggered that of all the amendments in all the world, Tory backbenchers are seeking to exempt the hospitality sector from the 3rd party harassment duties (the sector most afflicted by the problem). I’m sure waitresses, cleaners, hotel staff etc are grateful to see the Opposition have their backs.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Oddly enough, “stop running down the public services in which they work and stop hateful misinformation campaigns against them just for doing their jobs” does not feature as a proposed solution.

submitted 106 days ago • 40 comments

What has gone on here? Recruits must give biometrics, and surely they got all existing staff long ago? And why on earth will there be "fierce resistance"? #DNA #forensics www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

Gregg Wallace says complaints came from ‘middle-class women of a certain age’ Not the best defence. Also a bit of gauntlet other women to come forward. Implication - working class or young women would read this as banter. I suspect this isn’t true. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

submitted 111 days ago • 13 comments

There is something at the heart of this story that doesn’t add up, legally speaking. Quick fraud lecture for y’all. 🧵

submitted 113 days ago • 53 comments

Today’s poem is called ‘First Date’.

submitted 120 days ago • 28 comments

#OTD 1867, Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, voted in a parliamentary by-election, more than fifty years before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918. Read Dr Kathryn Rix's article for @victoriancommons.bsky.social: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/a...

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

This is the kind of content we need much more of. Perfect thread!

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

I can confirm that the WiFi on the tube is now good enough for people to conduct video calls while underground and it is awful.

submitted 119 days ago • 129 comments

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

submitted 120 days ago • 151 comments

Spiralling backlogs, leaking rooves, broken alarms, missing video evidence, judges mopping floors and burnt out barristers - I spoke to those working in a crumbling courts system as part of @thetimes Crime and Justice Commission www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

submitted 120 days ago • 9 comments

RIP Prezza. One of the most visionary politicians in New Labour who genuinely believed in devolution (albeit only to the regional level), saw the need to join up the environment, housing, transport and planning (hence the creation of DETR) and invented the Northern Way. 1/3

submitted 122 days ago • 4 comments

John Prescott was a politician both behind and ahead of his time. Considered too bluff and old Labour to reach to the very top in the 90s, today his authenticity and class credentials would have been perfect to fight Farage and populism. Labour needs more like him.

submitted 121 days ago • 196 comments

For lovers of snow ❄️ I give you the greatest snow ball fight in history. In 1854 300 people including stock brokers went into snowy battle at Liverpool’s Exhange. The Liverpool Mercury reported “Hats flew away, By the force of the ball, From heads that were grey, Or with no hair at all”.

submitted 123 days ago • 16 comments

ULEZ compliant?

submitted 123 days ago • 146 comments

These were the judge's remarks when climate protesters were jailed after they blocked the M25. It will be interesting to see what action, if any, is taken against farmers effectively bringing London to a standstill today.

submitted 123 days ago • 2 comments

This is actually full of good reporting on casualization of UKHE at even the most prestigious institutions. And the fact that the Observer pressed Christ Church directly on ad wording, and then reported on the college's sidestepping is nothing short of astonishing.

submitted 126 days ago • 17 comments

Scoop by my colleagues George Parker and William Wallis:

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

I'm really hoping that the courts will clarify that the point at which a legal regulator is entitled to limit our freedom of speech is sky high. The idea that you can be sanctioned for posting something that is lawful is quite wrong. And has the chilling effect we see here.

submitted 135 days ago • 2 comments

Our taxes spent on lawyers to try and cover up Post Office scandal. We knew this, but yet more evidence of it www.computerweekly.com/news/3666152...

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Revealed: Courts have been issuing targets for numbers of cases to get through in the #SingleJusticeProcedure Adds fuel to the suspicion it is 'conveyor belt justice' www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/s...

submitted 148 days ago • 3 comments

This is a great poem by Danielle Coffyn. IF ADAM PICKED THE APPLE

submitted 149 days ago • 115 comments

Autumn in Oxford - Wytham woods

submitted 147 days ago • 6 comments

One in four pupils are registered for free school meals. The family needs to be on one of various benefits or Universal Credit with a post-tax income (excluding benefits) of less than £7,400. No getting away from it: we’re a rich country full of poor families. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 152 days ago • 5 comments

Employment Rights Bill now published - text here - publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

submitted 163 days ago • 2 comments