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King's Counsel, 23ES and Trinity Chambers (Newcastle), criminal advocate, once a classicist, occasional LRB contributor, mostly human.
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Magnificent by Jeremy Clarkson on how people who voted for Brexit and still think it was a good idea make his hair catch fire and teeth itch. www.thetimes.com/article/5356...

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

Huge congratulations to @laurajanes.bsky.social on her appointment as KC - some recognition for a career devoted to securing the rights of the most marginalised and vulnerable.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

The Times knows this is bullshit. It knows what the cab rank is. It knows how it works. But The Times is dishonest. So it runs the story anyway.

submitted 52 days ago • 24 comments

Tesco, good, occasionally busy later. Sainsbury’s, moderate to good, rough in toilet roll aisle. Asda, light to moderate, heavy crowds by evening. M&S and Co-Op, fair. Waitrose, fair to moderate. Lidl, rough at first, easing later. That’s the end of the Shopping Forecast youtu.be/dFdas-kMF74?...

submitted 78 days ago • 8 comments

How is what the Chinese are said to be doing in the UK different from what most states do (peacefullly) to advance their national interests?

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you @theguardian.com for this. Criminal Justice needs urgent investment - yes, money - much more than inventing a new jury-less court. www.theguardian.com/law/2024/dec...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I have created a #starterpack on access to #justice and #legalaid - message me if you want to be added go.bsky.app/J6g9H4r

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

Lawyers rightly complain when politicians, the media and the public associate us with our clients, leading to immigration law firms being targeted by neo-Nazis. So why do some lawyers also willingly do it to ourselves? Isn't that rather hypocritical? lag.org.uk/article/2163...

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

I don’t seek to defend Phil Shiner but the reporting of his sentencing is generally wildly inaccurate as to what he pleaded guilty to (failing to declare use of a fixer and referral fees) and the amounts involved (£200k not £3m). Why do people not read the published sentencing remarks?

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

In Syria, the secret police were known as 'The Germans', since Hafez Assad employed fugitive senior SS officer Alois Brunner to set up his secret service's torture-prisons. #Syria

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

The Ministry of Justice has asked the Law Commission to review the law on homicide in E&W and the sentencing framework for murder. It will examine diminished responsibility and whether the sentencing framework adequately reflects the seriousness of domestic murders. lawcom.gov.uk/law-commissi...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Parallel reality in this morning's Russian papers.

submitted 94 days ago • 27 comments

Government announces higher fees for #asylum cases (unchanged since 1996) to attract lawyers to clear #backlog of cases. Now please do the same to help clear even greater #crime backlog, and increase #court capacity with more 'sitting days'.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Amen.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Are we tough enough on killers? Just 6 per cent of the public think murder sentences are getting tougher. In reality, they have jumped 50 per cent in two decades. Why is public opinion so out of step? 1/6 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/6b42...

submitted 105 days ago • 18 comments

Clarkson now says the tax-avoiding reason he gave for buying his farm was just for PR- he really wanted the land for shooting. Does this man have a problem telling the truth?

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments