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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

10 months

There is something queasily familiar about a man telling women that they are "[insert flattering epithet] enough" to bear another burden for the benefit of men. Similar to the "what's all the fuss about?" device which serves both to demean the objector and elevate the author. 1/7

Kenny Farquharson

@KennyFarq

10 months

NEW: How the trans row will end in compromise My column in ⁦ @thetimes ⁩

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

3 years

So, not only did I get silk, but I'm also bursting with pride to be a member of @legalfeminist .

Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

3 years

All the (other) Legal Feminists are beyond delighted and proud to congratulate - and simultaneously unmask! - one of our own:

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

8 months

If ever I achieve cross examination this close to perfection, I will die a happy woman.

Tribunal Tweets

@tribunaltweets

8 months

NC: What is Spanish for non-binary? MS: No binaria. NC: And the masculine? MS: No binario. [Missed a bit of explanation from MS re this]

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

In the robing room at Leicester Crown Court a couple of weeks ago, I heard a male barrister loudly diagnosing a female judge's evident dislike of him as "hormonal" in origin. On a wholly unrelated topic, the crisis in retaining women at the Criminal Bar continues apace.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

Hi @LottieJohn1 , apologies for the QT, but it's quite a long answer. In response to your 2nd question, of course not. But here, the issue isn't the patient's right to know, it is her right to have her legally protected wishes honoured. As you doubtless know... 1/

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

When Sussex Police say that they "do not tolerate any hateful comments", is this simply a statement of their allegiance to one side of an ongoing debate (bad policy) or an indication that they will investigate comments they disagree with as though they were a crime (bad law)?

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

Consent is only valid if the person giving it has the freedom and capacity to give it. Deception is capable of materially inhibiting that freedom & capacity and so vitiating consent. And that is the legal basis of asserting that such contact will prima facie be an assault. END.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

10 months

And there are many, many, many women who will be able to explain to @KennyFarq how and why we have become so ungraciously sceptical when being politely condescended to by a man whose best argument is "just the tip". End

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

10 months

Because what all the fuss is about is whether women are human enough, equal enough, to assert our independence from men. If our continued enjoyment of legal and social protections is contingent on sharing them with "just a few" men, they are favours, not rights. 6/7

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10 months

I think that there are two principal, related drivers behind the author's ostensibly conciliatory thinking. He regards women as constitutionally designed to accommodate men, at an endlessly negotiable cost to themselves. His flattery is a bargaining chip, but an worthless one.3/7

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

10 months

The second driver is that many men (more than like to admit it) find gender non-conformity in men deeply uncomfortable. This is why trans identified men are at risk in male spaces. This is not a problem to lay at the door of women - it needs action and dialogue between men. 4/7

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

10 months

Gender identity is a metaphysical belief. As a society we protect the right to have/express our beliefs, not the substance of those beliefs. Reducing the effect of a hard won protection for women to enforce the pretence that a belief is a consensual reality is not compromise. 5/7

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

3 years

I have news.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

Please respond to this consultation, including terminology used. The difference bw sex & gender are central here; the need to use them with precision should be self-evident. The relevant cases are about deception as to sex, not gender, a fact which matters for everyone involved.

Crown Prosecution Service

@CPSUK

2 years

We’re updating our legal guidance on deception as to gender and welcome your feedback as we work to ensure this important and complex area is informed by as wide a range of views as possible. Have your say ⬇️

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

This isn't just pedantry - Audrey's not talking about the Federation of Master Butchers. We see it in front bench parliamentarians & the NPCC. That's lawmakers & those at the top of law enforcement, using an act that doesn't exist to justify the potential breach of one that does.

Audrey Ludwig

@AudreySuffolk

2 years

You can spot organisations who haven’t read the Equality Act. They call it the Equalities Act; and they give you a general principle to justify their argument without reference to any relevant exceptions or address potential competing rights

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Sarah Vine

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10 months

A compromise which Mr. Farquharson doesn't seem to want to consider is that men who identify as trans should be made given the space to dress and behave in gender non-conforming ways safely. Third spaces are a compromise which are safe for both women & trans identified men. 2/7

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

3 years

This chimes with the experience of many of us who work in the CJS. Some people who believe in self-ID will instinctively deny the potential for its abuse, but when you examine the available data on convicted sex offenders, the alternative inference is far more alarming for 1/4

James Treadwell

@James_Treadwell

3 years

Yesterday I tweeted something to @Jgicriminolg about Gender Self ID. Been amazed at the engagement so thought I would say a bit more. For a short while I was Probation Officer in a Multi Agency Public Protection team. I met a lot of sex offenders.

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Sarah Vine

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1 year

So unless you remove the legal protection for a patient to request single sex healthcare, it's hard to see how the privacy rights attaching to gender reassignment take precedence over a patient's right to decide the sex of a person who is going to provide intimate healthcare. 5/

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

treatment is for the benefit of a patient, not of the HCP, & the competing rights have to be viewed with that in mind. Both patient and HCP have Article 8 privacy rights. These are qualified rights. If the HCP's Art 8 rights are engaged in this situation, they must be balanced 2/

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

Almost everything that is wrong with the system of lay magistrates is neatly encapsulated in this post. I cannot imagine the representative body of any other judicial post publicly complaining that they are demoralised by a limitation on their powers to send people to prison.

The Magistrates' Association

@MagsAssoc

1 year

We are deeply disappointed by the @MoJGovUK 's decision to pause #magistrates ' extended sentencing powers and we fear morale-related resignations. Our full statement can be read here and👇

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

I feel like this should come up as an automatic warning to anyone who posts on social media about unresolved criminal allegations. Maybe a talking paperclip, which starts "It looks like you're about to commit a contempt of court. Would you like some legally accurate advice?"

Anya Palmer

@anyabike

1 year

If someone has been charged with the rape of a child under 13 and you believe they are guilty, you presumably want them found guilty with no chance of appeal? So tweeting on the assumption that they must be guilty is not only contempt of court, it's stupid even on your own terms.

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1 year

against the patient's. Arguably, the patient's Article 3 rights, which are absolute, are also engaged. If that were the case, Art 3 trumps Art 8. If not, we are left with the conflict of Art 8 rights, whichwould qualify for the 'intense focus' test from In re S [2004] HL 47. 3/

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

If the promise of incarcerating people is what gets you out of bed in the morning, I don't think you should be allowed anywhere near such an important decision.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

Even if I were a subscriber to the maxim that "Rights are not pie", I would have to concede that resources are, very much, pie. Where the allocation of ltd resources illuminates a conflict of rights, it calls for something more substantial than a refusal to admit conflict exists.

la scapigliata

@lascapigliata8

2 years

@BBCWomansHour @leakylike @DrNighatArif @muirkate @itsanitarani It’s because it is being given to males who want to use it cosmetically. Resources are being shifted away from women and given to men, here’s a testimony with evidence 👇

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

11 months

Glass ceiling smashed! According to @ChambersGuides I am now considered to be so good that I can be described in the masculine.* "A truly wonderful advocate. Both his written and oral advocacy are unquestionably excellent." *if you don't understand that this is sarcasm, just say

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@ProfAliceS @Uni_of_Essex If protected beliefs are equal under the law, and Mr. Renton's analysis is legally literate and intellectually honest, he would presumably be happy to put his name to the same observation about the impact for GC students/staff of an event at which gender ideology was promoted.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

Lord Steyn described it as an "intense focus on the comparative importance of the specific rights being claimed" requiring a consideration of the justifications for interfering with or restricting each right and an application of the proportionality test. 4/

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

Dreadful idea. Pretty much any criminal lawyer worth their salt will advise every single client pleading not guilty to elect jury trial, thereby increasing the Crown Court caseload and backlog even more.

Magistrate Bench Chair

@ChairMagistrate

2 years

From 25th Apr 22, the max 6 month prison sentence that can be imposed by magistrates for a single either-way offence will be extended to 12 months. This applies to offences committed from the commencement date.

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Sarah Vine

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8 months

Our periodic reminder from the Court of Appeal Criminal Division that, contrary to a widespread and rather modish misapprehension, being offensive is not, in and of itself, an offence.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

3 years

One man's campaign to protect free speech via @spectator

In praise of Harry Miller's fight for free speech

Almost three years ago, I spoke on the phone to a man called Harry Miller. A Lincolnshire businessman, he’d just been interviewed by the police because someone had complained about things he’d...

www.spectator.co.uk

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@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@ProfAliceS @Uni_of_Essex Alternatively, he and his co-authors were unable to come up with a more cogent argument for restricting the freedom of expression than "You smell of poo and I hate you".

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

6 months

I'll be honest. I think that gender ideology's Operation Hearts & Minds needs a bit of fine-tuning.

Julie Bindel

@bindelj

6 months

Protesters at the First Do No Harm conference, CAN-SG. Police failed to act, as per bloody usual, but have just now made three arrests. Reporting from the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex & Gender, Saturday, 23rd March, 2024

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Sarah Vine

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3 years

in people & in systems and that anything approaching self-ID in prisons/refuges etc is like catnip to them. In my experience (i) is v unlikely, (ii) is nonsensical/offensive and (iii) is the most tenable. I don't believe we can ignore it without creating unacceptable risks. 4/4

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@ICMPLondon Interesting. What were the misconceptions that your sign was seeking to clarify?

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

3 years

The most excellent @soniasodha on the Miller case, a great demonstration of why we can never take rights for granted.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

3 years

number of inferences from this, including: (i) More trans sex offenders are sent to prison than non trans sex offenders; (ii) trans people are more likely to sexually offend than non trans people; or (iii) sex offenders frequently seek out and exploit vulnerabilities, both 3/4

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@BarristerSecret Going to the robing room at Snaresbrook, looking in the mirror and realising that I had delivered my closing speech with a pair of (white, highly visible) knickers hanging outside of my (black, for contrast) trousers.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

3 years

This is very, very important information for anyone interested in the progress of Forstater v CGD, and anyone commenting publicly about it. Breach of this order is a contempt of court, punishable with imprisonment.

Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

3 years

Surprisingly, CGD has got its restricted reporting order - only, for now, for the duration of the hearing; and only in respect of the four complainants' names and email addresses.

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Sarah Vine

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2 years

If anybody would like to know what silk's day was like for me, it was pretty much exactly like this.

The Sage

@SarkySage

2 years

For whoever needs to see this 😁😊

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3 years

the objective of fostering good relations between trans people & other members of society. The stats indicate a significantly greater proportion of trans-identified prisoners are sex offenders than either male or female prisoners who do not identify as trans. You can draw a 2/4

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

Don't be modest, Mr. Raab. You're currently managing to spare everyone the stress and trauma of a live trial, no matter how long they've spent waiting for it.

Dominic Raab

@DominicRaab

2 years

Today we’ve rolled out pre-recorded evidence for rape victims to 4 more Crown Courts across the Midlands. This vital tool spares victims the stress & trauma of being cross-examined during a live trial and is now available at two-thirds of all Crown Courts.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@childcalledoi @PoisonPinkDaisy Why me? Why not the man he was speaking to, or any of the other men in the room? Why is the responsibility with the one person in the room from the demographic he so clearly despises?

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

This is, unsurprisingly, an excellent piece. @soniasodha makes reference to an important point, largely missing from any headline-grabbing discussions about the conviction rate in allegations of sexual offending. The changes needed are societal, not legal.

If it takes a man’s daughters to teach him to shun sexism, that is no bad thing | Sonia Sodha

Having children can create a welcome shift in perspectives, not least among politicians

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

7 months

This is an obviously important and necessary book, and one I'm looking forward to reading when it hits the shelves. @michaelpforan is a rare voice who invariably brings light to this troubled area where many others bring only heat.

Dr Michael Foran

@michaelpforan

7 months

Back from my break and I bring good news. Contract is signed so I’m delighted to say I’ll be publishing a book on Sex, Gender Identity, and the Law with Cambridge University Press! All going well it should be published in 2025 with the paperback available at launch for £22.99.

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Sarah Vine

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2 years

Something is very wrong with the law if those who make it, enforce it, & uphold it can't have discussions about a conflict which has real-life repurcussions for people, simply because those discussions are uncomfortable or upsetting. It is the opposite of fostering good relations

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@AudreySuffolk @Broonjunior @RoddyQC @Scott_Wortley I think that what Mr. Agnew is referring to here is the Common Law doctrine of "You smell of poo and I hate you" which means that something that wouldn't otherwise be an offence becomes a criminal act if the accused smells of poo and you hate them.

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1 year

I readily acknowledge that, as lawyers go, Lord Pannick really is the absolute business. And it's against that background that the highlight of my week has been spending 10 minutes watching him while his client gives evidence to the Privileges Committee.

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Sarah Vine

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1 year

This is a huge relief. I confess that my presumption is that any woman who procures an unlawful abortion is doing so because something has (or many things have) gone dreadfully wrong for her. There might be exceptions, I just haven't seen any.

Hannah Al-Othman

@HannahAlOthman

1 year

BREAKING: Carla Foster, jailed last month for procuring her own abortion, will be released from prison today, after the Court of Appeal reduced her sentence to 14 months, suspended for 18 months. Mrs Justice Lambert said she needed "compassion not punishment."

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Sarah Vine

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3 years

This has been a head-spinning week, and I have been overwhelmed by the warmth, enthusiasm and volume of congratulations. But, for generosity and sheer class, nothing touches the beautiful messages from people whose applications were unsuccessful. I salute you all.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@AudreySuffolk @michaelpforan I also note that @michaelpforan at the WESC declined to agree that once you pop, you just can't stop, or that they're tasty, tasty, very, very tasty or even - scandalously - that you should've gone to Specsavers. A dark day for human rights.

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Sarah Vine

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6 months

I just supported this case! via @CrowdJustice

Chair of SEEN sued for saying 'only women menstruate'

I am a lawyer working for an arms-length body to a government department (part of the Civil Service) and love my job. I am also gender critical and co-chair of the SEEN network.

www.crowdjustice.com

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

Whilst I agree with @BarristerSecret here on the reasons for voting No, what finally settled it for me was the dangerously nebulous and endlessly extensible 'commitments' on behalf of the criminal Bar, which will be used against us at every opportunity. 1/

The Secret Barrister

@BarristerSecret

2 years

For those who have asked, after careful consideration, I have decided to vote NO to the government's offer to the Criminal Bar. My reasons for doing so are no better nor worthy of note than anybody else's, but what is Twitter without solipsism? So here goes.

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@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

In which the Equal Treatment Bench Book fails, once again, to meet the expectations raised by its own title.

Rebecca Bull

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2 years

A revised version of the Equal Treatment Bench Book is out. It’s interesting from the perspective of those of us who manifest our belief that sex matters.

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2 years

@FondOfBeetles Does the promised 'dignity' include getting our descriptor back?

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@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

Well, from the perspective of someone in the Criminal Justice System, I wasn't expecting to feel nostalgic for Liz Truss's premiership quite so soon.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

3 years

#booked @legalfeminist The literary insurrection continues...

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@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@charleshymas @TheCriminalBar @thebarcouncil @PoliceInspForum @VictimsComm @LDNVictimsComm @CourtsIdle @JamesDRossiter @TheYoungCBA @Justice_OnTrial @cjalliance Thank you for sharing your article, Charles. Could I immodestly suggest that you take a look at my own, which might help explain why this development in rape cases is not delivering quite what the public might reasonably have expected?

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@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

It takes a rare (and, I suspect, elective) intellectual poverty to compare the belief that no person is born in the wrong body to the ideology of eugenics.

Audrey Ludwig

@AudreySuffolk

2 years

I am upset and disappointed that some academics are still so intolerant they cannot tolerate diversity & not recognise sex & gender critical beliefs as protected characteristics in the Equality Act. To characterise them as akin to eugenics is offensive

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@SarahvAtDSC

3 years

How do you think I feel? I've spent 25 years dressing like one because I honestly thought that was the closest I was going to get.

Sorcha Ní Nia

@Luiseach

3 years

genuinely angry that I was never told about this by any careers guidance officers during Sixth Form

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@SarahvAtDSC

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I freely admit that I don't know if there has ever been such an organisation as the Federation of Master Butchers, but you get the point.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@LevinsLaw But the object of such campaigns is to inform people with clarity and without small print; this describes an action which will only amount to criminal harassment if part of a course of conduct. It presents as though it were an offence in itself, which is materially misleading.

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@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@Joanna__Hardy I once witnessed a Dachshund execute this very move on the provocatively exposed ear of a lunchtime sunbather outside Manchester Crown Square. Poor man went up like a Harrier jump jet. Needless to say, I was the model of professional composure.

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@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

@LottieJohn1 Criminally speaking, it's unlikely to amount to an assault, unless the patient was so frightened that s/he felt unable to object. It's not unreasonable to expect health authorities to think carefully about the vulnerability of patients and the dynamic between them and HCPs.

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@SarahvAtDSC

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@SirGrantFleming @Docstockk Yes, I'm not aware that anyone is ever anything other than male or female, either. As I understand it, anyone born with a DSD is still male or female.

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On Thursday, I did a 12 minute run & felt like I deserved some kind of award. Disappointingly, @GodberCharlotte bested me by doing an actual marathon. After completing a 3.8km swim and a 180km bike ride. She doesn't want an award. Just a donation.

Charlotte's IRONMAN for Amy

Help Charlotte Godber raise money to support The Brain Tumour Charity

www.justgiving.com

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@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

Only a "lacuna" if you ignore the fact that the age threshold for indecent images and prostitution was deliberately raised to reflect a policy distinction between sex as private and sex as services/commodities.

Azza Brown

@Azza_Brown

1 year

‘A legal lacuna highlighted by the saga centres on the age of consent and the law around the taking, possessing and sharing of sexualised images of under-18s.’ A legal lacuna?! Why the accused BBC presenter has not been named

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2 years

This message is not, in reality, addressed to @TheCriminalBar . Mr. Raab knows that barristers need no urging, nor reminding of those affected by the state of the system. It is addressed to voters innocent enough to believe that the backlogs have nothing to do with govt policy.

Dominic Raab

@DominicRaab

2 years

Our courts continue to recover – with backlogs in the magistrates’ court falling by a fifth since their peak in July 2020. I urge @TheCriminalBar to join us by putting victims first and helping to ensure they get the swift justice they deserve in the Crown Court.

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2 years

Phenomenal women. @bindelj @BKGrossman @akuareindorf @k21fem

Julie Bindel

@bindelj

2 years

Some good news - we won!!!

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@BirdYellow1 My own position is that gender identity should be legally recognised in the same way as all metaphysical beliefs, in that there should be protection of people's right to hold and manifest that belief, but not to the extent of enforcing the substance of that belief.

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1 year

@anyabike Legal practice is a tricky area in which to maintain radical subjectivism.

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@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

@andrew_b72 I can't see your first tweet, but in answer to this one - no. I'm surprised you have interpreted what I wrote in this way.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

Since gender neutral toilets are for people who are happy to share such spaces with men - a cohort with far more men in it than women - I would sincerely hope that the number of female loos will be at least as many as the total of male and gender neutral combined.

Southwark News

@Southwark_News

2 years

Gender neutral toilets are coming to #Waterloo Station to “improve inclusivity” - at ‘the UK’s busiest loos' @networkrail

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1 year

I've had a creeping feeling about 'imposter syndrome' for a while now, and this articulates it beautifully. Confidence is easy when your entire working environment was designed around your characteristics.

How Can You Overcome Imposter Syndrome? You Don’t

Let's call it what it really is, argues author, founder, and activist Reshma Saujani: another misogynistic scheme.

www.glamour.com

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@GarthMarenghia @AudreySuffolk @Broonjunior @RoddyQC @Scott_Wortley It depends what you mean by "exposing yourself". I'm taking the meaning from s.8 of the SO(S)A 2009, which requires the exposure to be of genitals (a merkin is not genitalia) in a sexual manner and for the purposes of sexual gratification or to humiliate, alarm or distress.

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Sarah Vine

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2 years

Because I don't think that the party in a negotiation who wants the other party to return to work will be asking that other party to do anything except return to work unless they are trying to screw them. Especially when the first party has, well, form.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

Again, and for the avoidance of doubt; No.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

11 months

Hey there @TowerHamletsNow is there a good reason for this decision? And, when I say "good", I mean a reason that doesn't involve enacting a belief that providing sporting facilities to men is more important than providing them to women. @ApsanaBegumMP @rushanaraali

Sarah Hannett KC

@SarahHannett

11 months

This is my daughter’s club. It is a kind, wonderful place where girls can learn to kick a ball, make friends and stay healthy. The decision by @TowerHamletsNow to give the club’s contracted training slot to a men’s team is a disaster for the 60+ girls who play each week.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@Jeena_Cho After 25 years of judges pretending that their desire not to hear me is my fault, I resolved to meet the next complaint "Speak up, Ms Vine, you are very softly spoken" with a single word at exactly the same volume. No difficulty in hearing me then.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

I see the word 'agreement' is punching well above its legal weight here.

Jonathan Kinnear

@JKinnearKC

2 years

@TheCriminalBar @BrandonLewis

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@GodberCharlotte @AudreySuffolk @Broonjunior @RoddyQC @Scott_Wortley Good point. Fig law and Poo Smell Doctrine are the prosecutor's friends.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

I get that the nature of Twitter means that bald assertions are often made at the expense of accuracy, but it is always beneficial to bring @AudreySuffolk 's expertise to bear on this subject.

Audrey Ludwig

@AudreySuffolk

2 years

She is both right and wrong (in the implication she is trying to make). It is much more complex. A thread 1. Protection against unlawful discrimination on the grounds of Gender Reassignment is available at any age and regardless of having a GRC. However, this does not mean that

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

@LottieJohn1 Do you mean because it would be obvious to the patient that the HCP was not the requested sex and that, if the patient didn't object, it could be taken as implied consent?

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

@LottieJohn1 I can't see any such argument being successful. I think that the first question has to be whether there is any reason that a protected characteristic matters. There are solid, evidence-based reasons for women to have recourse to single-sex facilities. Not so with SO.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@MAMBarLife Oh, I much prefer those who have done none at all and who believe they occupy some kind of professional, intellectual and moral high ground as they confidently tell you that "sex cases pay well". Which, of course, is why they are overwhelmingly conducted by female counsel...

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

What was omitted from Nick Vineall KC's statement is the perfectly logical point that, if a barrister's independence is truly compromised by the subject matter of a case, s/he should not appear on either side of that case.

Mary Aspinall-Miles

@MAMBarLife

1 year

Please note what @Kirsty_Brimelow , chair of @TheCriminalBar says. Am not sure the BSB and SRA realise the full outworkings of what they have done. RASSO work is already highly politicised, this may create another layer to it.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

When the government try again (and they will) to introduce extended opening hours, any resistance will be said to amount to a failure to honour the commitment that we signed up to. 4/

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

11 months

Going well, then @TowerHamletsNow ...

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

www.thetimes.com

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@AudreySuffolk @Dixxicult @LizMcG_emplaw @Grays_Ink @Womans_Place_UK @UCLwomenslib Too right. It blows my mind that so many lawyers (including lawyers who promote themselves as brave, principled and intensely focussed, & front bench politicians who practised as lawyers) content themselves with closing their eyes & hoping that the horrid conflict will go away.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@AudreySuffolk @Broonjunior @RoddyQC @Scott_Wortley It's important to remember that law is very much a history of ideas.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

And when we make complaint that the neutered, toothless pay review body is, in fact, neutered, toothless and being roundly ignored by MoJ, we will be told that they are not prepared to follow any recommendations until we meet that commitment to the govt's satisfaction. 5/

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

When the numbers have finally been crunched on the further payments for s.28 cases, and MoJ tell us they can actually only give us £3.60 and a Ginsters pasty, any large-scale refusal to take s.28s will be characterised as breaching the commitment to reduce the backlog 2/

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@teaforpterosaur I recently heard that when Richmal Crompton's Just William stories were published, many little boys were terribly disappointed to learn that the author was a woman. Strain that story through the filter of 2022 and here we are.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

11 months

Reckon I'm now entitled to deploy some Crotch Advocacy. For the uninitiated, this is where a certain kind of male barrister puts one foot up onto the chair next to you, enabling him to shunt his groin towards his face at points of emphasis in his argument. 🤢

Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

11 months

Glass ceiling smashed! According to @ChambersGuides I am now considered to be so good that I can be described in the masculine.* "A truly wonderful advocate. Both his written and oral advocacy are unquestionably excellent." *if you don't understand that this is sarcasm, just say

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@MAMBarLife @marcbrown75 I've never not been angry about this

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

5 months

This is Alan Dog, who is in charge of Quality of Life at Work at @engineno4 . He has a packed schedule of bright perkiness, warm greeting, atmosphere-lifting & rocking a hi-vis jacket. His salary is £0, so he can't afford the op he needs. Alan Dog’s Eyes

Alan Dog’s Eyes, organized by Tash Kendall

Hello fellow surrogates of Alan, Our favourite pooch is very poorly, and as some of you may be aware … Tash Kendall needs your support for Alan Dog’s Eyes

www.gofundme.com

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

11 months

@sonianolten @ChambersGuides Maaaaate!

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

Can someone please explain to Labour that starting a policy brainstorming meeting with the words "There's no such thing as a bad idea" isn't actually a binding commitment to the maddest thing out of someone's mouth?

Alasdair Mackenzie 🧡

@AlasdairMack66

2 years

It’s quite obviously going to be sadists, curtain-twitchers and/or bigots who’ll be most likely to want to participate, which is just one of many reasons why this sort of state-sanctioned vigilantism is a terrible idea

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

2 years

@JamesDRossiter @CourtsIdle @Azza_Brown @RugbyBarrister @legalhackette @TheCriminalBar Since Mr. Raab is not, strictly, the Ministry of Justice, the assertion "No names... are being provided to the Ministry of Justice" might be fairly described as a narrow truth deployed in the service of broad dishonesty.

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Sarah Vine

@SarahvAtDSC

1 year

@stevecummins78 @BarristerSecret @MagsAssoc This is encouraging to hear - I suspect you are not alone on this one.

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