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Barrister | Presenter on LBC Radio (Sat 9pm) | Author of 21 books | Theatre critic and investor | YT: | W:

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Theatre Thread 2024 Inspired by @SarahTrafford77 , this is a thread of all theatre shows I see in 2024.
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The man who’s cut my hair for several years tells me he’s not vaccinated and won’t get vaccinated because it’s insufficiently tested, and exercise and vitamins will be enough as he’s young (28?), fit and healthy. Do I cancel my next appointment and find myself a new barber?
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Dear @pritipatel , Would you like me to open the @LBC #LegalHour tomorrow with a recap of the law on bullying at work?
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Legal Aid rates of pay for criminal barristers are appalling. Many are paid less than minimum wage. If they were employees, they would sue - and win. And HMRC would prosecute the Legal Aid Agency. But they’re not. So they can’t. So they have to strike. Good luck to them.
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I like my blue tick. But as soon as it stops meaning 'authentic Twitter user' and starts meaning 'wanker who pays $240 a year', I'll be giving it up.
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Temple at night is unspeakably beautiful.
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Donald from Washington has just called to ask if he’s entitled to a redundancy payment.
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Getting cross at all the tweets saying employees have a ‘right’ to call in sick if they don’t want to work on a particular date. No they don’t. If they’re not genuinely sick, it’s called being AWOL. If they get paid sick pay, it’s fraud. And either way, it’s sackable.
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Centre Parcs is closing next Monday, to the anger of thousands of holidaymakers. Is it legal, and what can you do? My preliminary thoughts by way of THREAD /1
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4 years
Thrilled to announce I have been given my own show on @LBC . Starting this Saturday at 9pm, it's the all-new LBC Legal Hour. I'm so excited about joining such an incredible team. Huge thanks to @Tom_Cheal , and to @clivebull and @IainDale for being such incredible role models.
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"In banking terms, it's not a lot". James hasn't been paid his £225,000 trader's bonus. I tell him to go and pay for a lawyer, and not look for free legal advice from a 3 minute chat on a radio show.
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'They paid me half my bonus, so I'm still owed the other half.' This banker had half of his bonus withheld by his employer. Daniel Barnett advised him on how to proceed. @daniel_barnett | #LBCLegalHour
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This. (And for the record, I have shared a room in Chambers with Naomi Cunningham for 12 years). Whether or not I agree with her views on trans issues, she has been invited by the organisers to join a panel and she has done absolutely nothing wrong here.
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Rad Kohanzad
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I'd like to say for the record, Naomi Cunningham is a thoroughly decent person. Attacking fellow barristers like this isn't cool.
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I was interviewing student barristers for scholarships at the weekend. Not a single one wanted to be a criminal barrister. Normally it’s a third to half. Congratulations, @DominicRaab .
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2 years
Superb piece of forensic interviewing from @susannareid100
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2 years
The car crash interview of the year as Justice Secretary Dominic Raab shamelessly defends the indefensible Superb from @susannareid100 @GMB
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For January, I'm donating to @Depheruk (), Disability and Elderly Plumbing and Heating Emergency Repair. It provides vulnerable people with affordable emergency plumbing. Thanks @Amez_W , @jacquistephens5 , @DebAshley3 and @lukepenney1996 for nominating it.
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Every month I like to make a donation to a (very) small charity which I've never previously heard of. Please can I have suggestions?
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4 years
BEST disdainful line from HMRC email EVER…
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BBC news just now: Israel hasn’t yet provided conclusive evidence that the hospital is being used by Hamas. Really? ‘Conclusive’? I’m not sure whether the correct test is ‘credible’ or ‘probable’ evidence, but it cannot be ‘conclusive’. No court has ever demanded that.
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3 years
Problem: some people aren’t confident that masks are effective to impede viral transmission. Solution: just wear the bloody things anyway.
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2 years
Waiting for @mrjamesob to eviscerate everything. *popcorn*
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Seriously, *who* still thinks in imperial measures? Surely only those in late 50s or beyond (and I suspect not even many of them).
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4 years
A firm of HR consultants has just donated £1,000 to @FreeRepUnit in lieu of me pursuing an infringment of copyright claim against them, for copying my content and putting it on their blog. This happens a lot, and raises a lot of money for the FRU.
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4 years
Next up on @LBC with @mrjamesob is @JolyonMaugham of the Good Law Project. This is going to be worth listening to...
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2 years
Centre Parcs can only close and require people to leave for the day if their terms and conditions say they can. And they don't. So they can't. Here are their terms and conditions - . There are two sections which matter. /2
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3 years
If you're listening to @mrjamesob on @LBC talking about spiralling energy bills, I've recorded a legal explainer video on how to challenge excessive gas and electricity bills, and avoid getting cut off.
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2 years
First Chambers to get a tenancy application from Suella Braverman wins the prize.
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And now, I tune in to @lbc to listen to @mrjamesob and - can’t wait - @davidallengreen .
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A couple of days ago I asked someone to pull their mask up over their nose in M&S. He told me to get a life. That's kind of the point.
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4 years
I do like the acronym for the Flexible Furlough Scheme #ukemplaw #hr #notthoughtthrough
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Daniel Barnett
3 years
If you want a good source for live info about the @MForstater appeal as it happens, follow @SexMattersOrg . They are very much on one side of the argument, but the lawyers tweeting (including Naomi Cunningham) can be trusted to report the case neutrally as it unfolds.
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Daniel Barnett
4 years
I don't want to sound churlish. I really don't. But I am getting 20+ emails a day from solicitors I don't know, saying 'I know you're busy, but can you just give me some free advice on furlough, please, so I can charge my client for it?' Okay, not the exact words. But the gist.
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2 years
I can’t decide whether I should be cancelling my standing order to Good Law Project.
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4 years
Two weeks ago, the BSB gave five of us barristers two days to produce a full proposal for a Bar-led solution on solving the BPTC exam fiasco. @phatsilk_qc @SCynic1 @MattJEJackson @LHoyano and I worked flat out to meet that deadline. The BSB has now sat on it for two weeks.
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Daniel Barnett
3 years
I think the Twitterverse is going to engage in serious debate about the Forstater case, after reading and absorbing the judgment with great care.
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Daniel Barnett
4 years
My kids’ school just sent an email (Sun 3.45pm) saying someone in my child’s year has tested positive for Covid so my child should stay at home. But they don’t say which child or which year. Do I toss a coin?
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4 years
Why I don't reply to requests for free advice... [THREAD]
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4 years
Just found some Dettol cleaning spray and bought it for my wife. She was delighted. If I’d done that three weeks ago, she’d have been furious.
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5 years
1/ Ignore the headlines. An employment tribunal has *not* just decided that all ethical vegans are protected by the Equality Act 2010.
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4 years
I'm a policy expert working for HMRC. I'm going to get some badly thought out stuff off my desk before the weekend. And in doing so, ruin everyone else's.
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2 years
THEY'VE CANCELLED THE CANCELLATION OF IR35!!!!
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Daniel Barnett
3 years
The EAT judgment was plainly correct. The real fight in this case should always have been about the reason for the non-renewal of the contract. The employer took a barely arguable point, won (to everyone’s surprise), it got overturned on appeal, and now it’s the important issue.
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Maya Forstater
3 years
Here it is: CGD are not appealing the Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment that gender critical beliefs are worthy of respect in a democratic society. The judgment stands and is a legal precedent. Next step: employment tribunal to hear the rest of the case. I am very happy!
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Allie - it doesn’t sound like you’ve broken any law, just internal rules. I hope it all works out. If you get fired, get in touch. I will represent you for free.
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Allie Morgan
4 years
I got pulled up by my direct manager yesterday for contravening some of our COVID safety rules. I fully admit that I did do that and will probably continue to do it every now and again because the specific rule is, quite frankly, inhumane.
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Channel 4: if you pay us £3.99pm you can watch all our streamed programmes without any adverts. £3.99 later… Channel 4: for contractual reasons, we are obliged to continue showing some adverts. Errr… what about your contract with *me*?
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Really proud to share a room in Chambers with this absolute star of the Bar. Naomi Cunningham is one of the brightest and best employment lawyers in the UK, and as part of @legalfeminist she is carving a real niche in arguing gender law cases.
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The Lawyer
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#BarristeroftheWeek : @outertemple 's Naomi Cunningham was part of a team acting for 35,000 claimants in an equal pay claim against ASDA, in yet another claimant-friendly judgment from the @UKSupremeCourt .
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3 years
The submissions being made by Ben Cooper on behalf of @MForstater really are very impressive, aren't they? (HT @SexMattersOrg for their live twitter reporting of the hearing, currently adjourned for lunch).
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4 years
Wow. Never seen this before.
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If this post gets 100 likes, I'll announce my big news tomorrow. If not, it'll have to wait.
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I think I have pretty good resilience and mental health, yet all the Covid / Brexit stuff is beginning to feel even more wearying than normal. What must it be like for those with a tendency to mental health issues?
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So, Reform UK pledges to reform the Equalities Act (yes, you read that correctly) in its manifesto.
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So I got suckered into buying a @HotelChocolat Velvetiser at the weekend under a £20 off offer they were running, and I now think it’s the best thing I’ve ever bought…
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The Center Parcs fiasco really does show the power of social media.
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1 year
As a barrister who probably falls towards the ‘higher profile’ end of the spectrum… I have *never* identified a client on Twitter, or tweeted about their case. And I never will.
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Daniel Barnett
4 years
Under the new lockdown regs, you need a reasonable excuse to leave your home. One listed example is "to visit a waste disposal or recycling centre". That's a rubbish excuse.
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Covidiot: a person who says ridiculous and inconsistent things about the CJRS. May or many not include those who write the scheme guidance.
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If this behaviour isn't a breach of the BSB Handbook, I don't know what is. The Attorney General is publicly endorsing an apparent breach of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020.
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Suella Braverman MP
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Protecting one’s family is what any good parent does. The @10DowningStreet statement clarifies the situation and it is wholly inappropriate to politicise it.
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Time to listen to @mrjamesob 's take on all that, so I know what to think.
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Noooo… The Prime Minister has just misnamed the Equality Act on @lbc . For the billionth, trillionth time, it’s not the Equalities Act. Please get it right, Rishis Sunaks.
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This is why @mrjamesob has 18 gazillion listeners.
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'You're a disgrace.' James O'Brien clashes with a church pastor who says he'll pray for gay people to 'help them overcome' homosexual feelings. @mrjamesob
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1/ There is none. You could cobble together an indirect discrimination argument that protects those of Spanish nationality (but not those of British nationality). It would go like this...
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The Secret Barrister
4 years
It’s a while since I did employment law, but can any employment lawyers point me to the law that @DominicRaab claims exists which prevents employers penalising or dismissing employees who are quarantining and who don’t have two years’ qualifying service to claim unfair dismissal?
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Here is an open offer to Allegra Stratton. If you have signed a non-disclosure agreement, I will advise you, free of charge, on whether and how you can get it set aside and speak up about what *really* happened.
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Russell Conway💙
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Whilst of course we shall never see it I imagine the terms of the Allegra Stratton NDA will make interesting reading. #stratton
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Does the Virginia Guiffre settlement agreement with Jeffrey Epstein stop her suing Prince Andrew? A thread.
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BBC Breaking News
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Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre's 2009 settlement with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is made public
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1/ I got 3 Bs. I did not get into my main or insurance university. I had to take a year out. I did not get a pupillage at a set of the calibre I wanted (it dissolved a long time ago). Life deals blows which seem insurmountable at the time, but life can work out good nevertheless.
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Delighted and proud last month’s National Broadcast on Coronavirus and Employment Law raised £10,000 for charity (£5k to NHS Charities Together, and £5k to the British Society of Immunology).
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Just finished @BarristerSecret book. **SPOILER** the narrator wakes up and realised it was all a dream. All’s well with the world. No meddling politicians, bumbling magistrates or underfunded CPS. It’s just trial by combat, as it always has been. Phew.
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4 years
1/ Why Matt Hancock is wrong about self-isolating employees being eligible for SSP. A thread…
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4 years
Barristers: do you finish your Advices with "If I can assist any further, please do not hesitate to contact me" (or similar)? I always did, but then I saw others doing it, and it struck me as needy rather than polite.
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Daniel Barnett
3 years
There’s no perfect time to let my dog cross the M25 on her own. So I’m going to let her do it on 19th July.
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Daniel Barnett
4 years
Let's be clear where the blame lies. It's not with the government (although it could have been firmer and faster). It's not with the virus - that's an inert piece of protein. It's with the morons who ignored the rules, met with friends and didn't wear masks on trains.
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Daniel Barnett
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Is there a keyboard shortcut for this... 1. The details of the flexible furlough scheme have not been published yet. 2. I do not know what the detail of something that has not been published will say.
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Had the AZ vaccine on Sunday. 1. As far as I know, I haven't died from a blood clot. 2. Today, my arm aches a bit. Just a bit. Apart from that, I'm 100% fine. 3. In fact, it's made me feel really good, almost invincible. Because it's made me feel safer about the future.
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2 years
Fascinating competing articles in @personneltoday on 'What is a Woman?' by: - Robin White @moira_robin - - Maya Forstater @MForstater -
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3 years
The Maya Forstater decision, explained in under 60 seconds #gendercritical #transrights
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4 years
I would like to thank 20-year ago me for being a pretentious arse. In 1999, I bought some cases of 2000 claret en primeur. I have just opened the first bottle. Yum.
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It doesn’t matter whether it was a ‘party’. What matters is whether it was a gathering which was essential for work purposes. Stop trying to reframe the vocabulary and re-read the legislation your party enacted.
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Rt Hon Nadine Dorries
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So, when people in an office buy a cake in the middle of the afternoon for someone else they are working in the office with and stop for ten minutes to sing happy birthday and then go back to their desks, this is now called a party?
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#8 of 2024 (theatre thread) @DorianGrayPlay . First night of previews. An absolute triumph for #sarahsnook . This is a play you’ll be talking about for years, and saying ‘I was there’.
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Not sure I'd have stayed as patient as @DavidLammy managed to do. Great handling of a very tricky call.
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David Lammy schools this caller who tells him he's "not English" because he's not white. @DavidLammy
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Should you judicially review HMRC over the Furlough fiasco? #ukemplaw #hr
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Daniel Barnett
3 years
A really interesting first instance ET case, holding an employer had a duty last summer to actively consider furlough when making someone redundant, and the absence of a reasonable explanation for not furloughing made the dismissal unfair.
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Daniel Barnett
3 years
It’s been six months. I’ve missed you. #templeatnight
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A blue tick does not mean you know what you’re taking about. Trust me. I know what I’m talking about.
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2 years
I read in @BarristerSecret ’s new book that they won the prize for top marks in employment law at University. A sad loss to the employment law Bar.
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Daniel Barnett
4 years
Keir Starmer at PMQs: "Data are widely criticised..." (are, not is). I love him.
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Daniel Barnett
4 years
Right, I've put pen to paper and written an article on whether employees get 80% or 100% notice pay while on furlough. Publishing tomorrow - will probably also do a podcast on it also.
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Daniel Barnett
2 years
1/4 To all criminal barristers: I want to help publicise the issues you are facing over fees, and give you the chance to explain the true level of fees for criminal legal aid barristers. But I cannot unless you are willing to come on my LBC show.
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Daniel Barnett
4 years
Granted, being #1 in HR books on the Amazon list for one day isn't quite the same as being #1 on the proper bestseller lists, like @BarristerSecret , but I'm still pretty chuffed.
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PS Apologies that I can't spell Center Parcs. But at least, unlike #centerparcs , I use the British and not the American spelling!
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Daniel Barnett
4 years
Oh. My. God. Government updates *employees* guidance (but not employers) to say you can take annual leave when on furlough. Oh yes, after close of business on Friday afternoon.
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Daniel Barnett
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Conversation at seat across from me on the train: What do you want to study? I’m thinking of studying law Oh - I’m a trainee barrister Follows: 5 mins of the trainee barrister (turns out she’s at Bar School) giving largely mistaken information about what barristers do.
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Daniel Barnett
3 years
Client: Can we fix a fee for a conference? Me: How many pages in the bundle? Client: About 100 Me: Okay, let's agree £xxx Client: agreed Client: *sends over 1,400 page bundle*
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The Press: will you resign if you get a FPN, Mr Starner? The Press: will you resign if you get a FPN, Mr Starner? The Press: will you resign if you get a FPN, Mr Starner? The Press: It’s disgusting that Keir Starmer has said he’ll resign; it puts unfair pressure on the police.
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Daniel Barnett
5 years
When you forget to exclude judiciary from an email shot, and accidentally ask over 200 ET, High Court and CA judges if they want to come and work for you for £22ph…
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Daniel Barnett
3 years
These are the two books (both by @BarristerSecret ) that @MaxJLHardy recommended on my @LBC show last night: - Stories of the Law and How it's Broken - - Fake Law -
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2 years
1. Wrong King 2. It’s accession (ascension is going to heaven).
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Daniel Barnett
4 years
I am doing a barbecue tonight. I know Rishi Sunak will take the stage just as I'm lighting up. I don't care. He can wait.
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Daniel Barnett
3 years
As an @lbc presenter, I never mention concrete on my show. It’s too controversial.
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3 years
Huge thanks, cap-doffing and respect to @BarristerSecret , who has allowed me to voice their amazing blogpost on The Colston Four.
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