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I was a government man, now I’m a tumbler at @jimrobottom .bsky.social

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We had very little time with her in the end, but one of the last things my mum, a history teacher, ever said to me, was “It’s time finish your bloody phd.” So 7 years, two children, two parents, 1 chambers and 4 Prime Ministers after I started, I did.

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My favourite part of the week remains 300 criminal defence barristers explaining to the City of London police what obstructing the highway is

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I wondered whether I would do this, when the time came. But there don’t seem to be many tales of him as a person going round. And, for reasons that will become apparent, I’ll always be grateful. So anyway here it is: A 🧵on the personal kindness of @Keir_Starmer

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It was unwise but not illegal

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over anti-semitism. I haven’t gone back. I prob will at some stage, it’s a natural home for me. But it occurs to me that now might be a helpful moment for the people who have got this far without falling asleep, to know about the kindness, in this small case, of Keir Starmer.

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There’s no precedent in at least the last 40 years for an English prisons/home office minister talking like this. My mate who’s a senior probation officer just sent me it. Imagine the sense of purpose you would feel going to work after years of solid cuts.

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Maiden speech of our new Prisons Minister, @JamesTCobbler ! This is the compassionate politics we need.

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I spent 2 years in the 00s doing voluntary work in Jamaican prisons on these cases + feel qualified to respond to this. So here goes 🧵 I saw a lot of volunteers come + go. One I won't forget. Let’s call her ‘Harriet Cole’. Harri saw the world in simplistic, black and white way

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Starmer worked for free as a lawyer to help scores of twisted killers around the world — including a monster who buried his two-year-old stepchild alive. Represented Jamaican who stabbed a 9 month year old baby — pro bono. No cab rank rule here

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Only those who have had a chronic illness or had close friends or loved ones who have will know the shot of self-esteem that working with him and having my name on that paper gave me, at a time when I really didn’t think I would become a barrister, or really work at all

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It’s hard to convey just how much Keir Starmer QC didn’t need to do this at the time. He was absolutely at the top of his game, the top human rights QC taking the top human rights cases against the government. He didn’t know me at all. No cv, hadn’t seen my grades. Nothing.

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He used my work, gave me a co-writing credit, and invited me to inner -temple hall for the event. And he paid me, really quite well, for research from a random.

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Wife: Objection! Me: We don’t do that in England it’s American from the tv (I’m sure I’ve said this before)... Wife: What do we do then? Me: Er.. well you just kind of flap around in an angsty but polite way until you get the judge’s attention. It’s very English.

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It was never the people you expected it to be. they always turned out to have been around loved ones who had been ill, or to have been ill themselves. I didn’t work for Keir again, but it made a real difference to me, at a very low point in my life. I won’t forget it.

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Classic barrister he doesn’t get back to me for months. Then out of the blue he emails and says he has to do a speech, for an @ALBA_Members do on 7 years of the Human Rights Act. Do I want to help research it, he will pay me. Mate you will what?

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It was an act of kindness.

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Disclosure: I’ve told this story once before, at an early Kentish Town labour event where his local nomination was voted on. I did so in response to claims he’s a blairite, or lacking personality, or whatever it was. I later left the party to to the greens…

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For Saul and Parvais in Jamaica. Proper ice breaker. Nice enough chat. He asks a lot about my illness and how I am. Men don’t generally do that. So you notice. I was hoping I could still qualify in a couple of years. About to leave he says email me. So a few days later I do.

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An American lad in a tesla blocked the way into gray's inn when I was cycling in this morning so I gently tapped the back of the car through a soft velvety glove politely to get through + he went beserk at me fortouching his car absolute career highlight would 100% do again

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I’m literally a professor of conveyancing. Go back to your boundary.

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I used to say when I was ill most young people are crap if you have a chronic illness. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve never known illness. Every so often you’d meet someone + they would be interested. Ask how you were

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When I was in my early 20s at bar school in 2002, after coming home from a death row internship in Jamaica, I started to get sick. Having never been ill, I developed full blown ME/CFS and had to drop out and return to live with my parents. It lasted over 7 years.

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I thought, + still think, that along with the @DeathPenaltyP , stopping the use of the death penalty, in whole areas of the world, 100s off death rows using just your brain, FOR FREE, is a truly incredible thing to achieve. Much more so than watching more4 +sweating at your mums

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Guys you DO NOT win by publicly taking on the kids who are REALLY GOOD at football and ALSO NICE why did you not learn this by the age of 10 like the rest of the country

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The odds at this stage weren’t on me becoming a barrister. A 20 min walk a day and then going to bed doesn’t really cut it in most courts. This was annoying, I was desperate to be a barrister. My legal heroes were Ed Fitzgerald KC and Keir Starmer @DoughtyStPublic .

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So I offered to pick her and her frinds up in my mum’s car and drive them to the only decent pub in Harrow, the case is altered, which has a view, + take them back to the widding. I got to the station + she + her friend Victoria get in the car + a lad in the back. This is Keir

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My health fluctuated at first. I managed to go back to Jamaica + secure pupillage in 2004 @7BRchambers , but it turns out that isn’t the best treatment for full blown CFS. So I had a huge relapse, + between 2004 and 2007 could only live at home + go for a walk for 20 mins a day.

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… she says. I knew who it was. I was very nervous. Driving my legal hero round in my mum’s car aged 28, not a great look. Anyway we all go to the pub. Potential v awkward so you’re seeing this girl but live at your mum’s chat. So I just blurt out I know who you are I worked

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She had a mad strong NZ accent and was hilarious. One day she called me up and said ‘James I’m coming to Harrow for a widding with my work frinds. It’s a Hindu widding with a big break. You live there is thir much to do?’ The answer to that q, if you’re wondering is no

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By the last time I worked in Jamaica in 2009, only a handful remained on dr. The mandatory death penalty had been declared unconsitutional, Jamaican courts had re-sentenced the vast majority prisoners to life in prison. A testament to the voluntary work of Starmer and others

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Anyway so around 2007 I was getting a bit better, couldn’t work, couldn’t redo bar school, but could go out once every couple of weeks or so to see mates. I met a girl from New Zealand at the buffalo bar who also happened to be a solicitor. I saw her, casually, a couple of times

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If you would like to read more about the Jamaican prison system you can buy the sun or read this which I wrote during pupillage

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2 years

Law students in uproar after they are banned from studying criminal law and forced to do contract and company law modules non stop for 3 years. "Mergers are more excrutiating than R v Brown", one nearly said.

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Sky News

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Sunak vows to crack down on university degrees that do not improve 'earning potential'

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1 year

So depressing that a single short term escapee gets the crisis and conditions in English prisons infinitely more media play than the 100 odd suicides that occur every year

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3 years

Did Boris Johnson make being a lawyer cool for the first time ever today?

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3 years

Are the Met Police responsible in (civil) law for the death of Sarah Everard at the hands of serving police officer Wayne Couzens? Current case law suggests not. But should they be? THREAD /1

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Why do lawyers complain law on tv is nothing like law irl. I prefer to complain law irl is nothing like law on tv. Who does not want to turn up at court, call a magistrate your ladyship, ignore the law of evidence + procedure, + achieve true justice in 10 electrifying minutes

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It is true the cab rank doesn't apply to pro bono. That's cos we're entitled to refuse a brief on pay grounds. Bloody barristers. It's true these were briefs Starmer, literally, volunteered for. But he didn't do that to "get them off". He did it to restrict the death penalty.

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2 years

Had no idea this would kick off. If you’re interested in supporting junior criminal barristers see @seanjonesqc ’s tweet below. Do t shirts. Fear no sleeves etc @BarristerSecret #barristerstrike @Joanna__Hardy @TheCriminalBar

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Do Right, Fear No one. T-shirts now available with proceeds going to the CBA to help junior barristers taking part in the present action. #barristerstrike

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At what point does a sitting Attorney General who is campaigning for leadership of her party misleading the public as to the law become a serious issue? Re these screenshots. 1. The legality of the Rwanda plan is subjudice before the High Court, with members of the AG's panel

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2 years

This Christmas donate to my crowdfund to privately prosecute Mrs Brown's Boys for treason. We have legal advice of postive grounds for criminal damages and an exemplary injunction.

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Domestic law is your mum til you’re 18, can tell you what to do; kick you out of the house; full authority. International law is your mum as an adult. No direct power; thinks you don’t call enough; calls your ethics into question; frequently right in the long run.

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1 year

She is extraordinarily articulate this young person. I wonder whether those that seek more + more punitive protest responses have really thought through the tactic sometimes. More + more people will be retweeting an extraordinarily articulate young person saying important things

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☕️ BREAKING: Phoebe Plummer Arrested at Cafe While Waiting for Hash Browns ⚖️ On Monday, Phoebe was issued draconian bail conditions by @metpoliceuk stating she is “not to protest on any roadway within the UK”. This morning, Phoebe chose to slow march for no new oil and gas.

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A Minister announced in the HoC today that lawyers giving fraudulent advice will be punished by up to life imprisonment, a sentence intended to incapacitate the most dangerous offenders. The maximum sentence for fraud is 10yrs. But nobody bats an eyelid cos it’s about migrants.

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Deserve what? Punishment? Of course. To be sentenced to death? I didn’t think so. The UK Foreign Office didn’t think so. The UK Parliament hadn’t thought so about Brits for 40 years. Perhaps not everything is not black and white? Let’s break some of this article down then.

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This is important. The Supreme Court went out of its way in rejecting the Rwanda IR appeal to emphasise the appellants’ lawyers are fulfilling their proper function - ie - just doing their jobs. I’m in absolute awe of colleagues who have worked tirelessly for their clients 1/3

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The article says the Blair Govt supported the anti death penalty work. But it's been consistent Government foreign policy, tory and labour to oppose the death penalty for decades. See this statement on behalf of the Govt Harry supports from December

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World Day against the Death Penalty 2023: Joint statement to the OSCE

The UK and other OSCE participating States mark the 21st World Day against the Death Penalty at the OSCE.

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But these people have done terrible things. He was TRYING TO GET THEM OFF!! No. These were not appeals against conviction based on fresh evidence - Andy Malkinson type cases - the purpose of the challenge was to say - the dp should only be used in the rarest of rare cases...

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Gonna do a charity auction where top QCs and academics can win a lecture in their specialist area from a legal expert at the Spectator

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There barristers living today who have been QC and KC in the same week and not tweeted about it

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Jamaica has not executed anyone since 1988. But when I first worked there. There were 100 people on death row, living in cramped, horrendous conditions, continually told they may be executed, taken to the square. They didn't know how unlikely that was.

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See here's the thing about people sentenced to death. They tend to have done terrible things, things a judge or a legislature somewhere thought meant they should be sentenced to death.

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3 years

Ok this isn't original and law books and DB are easy targets I accept but it's Friday guys so here is a thread on: DAVID BOWIE AS LEGAL TEXTBOOKS 1. Bennion on Statutory Interpretation

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Inner, Middle, Lincoln’s, Gray’s

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My 2nd was the realisation that in order to work on cases challenging the mandatory death penalty for murder, Harri'd convinced herself all the convicted murderers were innocent. If they were guilty of murder, what were we doing helping them for free? Didn’t they deserve it?

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I don't know why this labour spokesman was so mealy mouthed about the death penalty. As above, our Parliament got rid of it in 1965. The Commonwealth countries that retained the mandatory death penalty did so based on the law we had from 1957 to 1965, but that we rejected

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2 years

Mate, @Westlaw why do you need to auto log everyone out after 20 seconds you're a(n expensive) legal database not GCQC. Also have you ever read Lord Lane from 1995 you need regular rest breaks.

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Talking once on the bus on the way back from seeing a murderer in prison she stopped me short "What? You don't think he's guilty do you?" My jaw hit the bus floor. I said "I mean of course he's guilty. Have you read the appeal transcript? The evidence was overwhelming."

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2 years

Happy silks day to all those celebrating!

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8 years

Robin Cook's resignation. Greatest parliamentary speech of my lifetime. Oh that they had listened. … #Chilcot #Blair

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Robin Cook's Resignation Speech (in full)

The late Robin Cook MP's resignation speech to Parliament (in full) , on 17 March 2003.I've decide to upload this video as i noticed youtube now allows 15min...

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1 year

Sorry but to me the real scandal is that for 30 odd years the profession has allowed private ‘universities’ to make money hand over fist charging £20k a year to people who wanted to be a ‘barrister’ but were never going to make it

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Bar chief: Only PC holders should be called 'barrister'

Nick Vineall KC suggests bar should align with solicitors' profession on using protected title.

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As I understand this is the biggest ever compensation award for a modern slavery victim in England and Wales. The original CICA award appealed to the FTT was £1,600.

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James Robottom, acting pro bono, successfully represented a victim of modern slavery in his appeal to the First Tier Tribunal against his award under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. James was instructed by a team at @Freshfields @jimrobottom

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2 years

Guys I don’t want to come over all bobby big briefs but I just got paid £21.46 on a case by the LAA

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Harri looked perplexed. I said “I mean what about X, he’s definitely guilty, there were 13 witnesses” Harri then said angrily “I mean, none of them are guilty Jim” The conversation came to a halt and we sat silently on the bus to Kingston. My initial thought was of red stripe

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Why the Rwanda policy will be found to be unlawful 🧵 1. Humans have rights.

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Kathleen (Kate) Mary Robottom was born on 4 October 1946 in Bury, Lancs, to Phyllis and Jack Hill. She attended Derby High School for girls + in 1965 went to study at Exeter, where she acquired a 2-1 in history, lifelong friends, + a husband, John. An understated 60s idealist 1/

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The square for the gallows in Jamaica is in the centre of St Catherine district prison in Spanish Town, it is overlooked by the Superintendent's offices, which sit high, propped up on colonial wooden stilts. St Catherine was a slave prison and dates to the 16th century.

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2 years

Fuck, and I can’t say this strongly enough, cancer.

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Just got paid on a case from October 2012 [barrister emoticon]

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All other murderers would receive life sentences. It would be local courts who would decide a. on the relevant criteria for a death sentence b. whether a murderer met it. c. if not how long they would serve before parole As here, being eligible for parole does not mean release

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3 years

This your Human Rights Act consultation?

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Robert Jenrick

3 years

We undermine the rule of law, which underpins our democracy, if we accept vandalism and criminal damage are acceptable forms of political protest. They aren’t. Regardless of the intentions.

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You don't get to see top barristers cross examine in trials in Eng.But this week Brian Altman QC questioned guards alleged to have mistreated detainees in the Brooke House Inquiry.For students or est counsel,it's on youtube,and is quite a watch.Try 24 Feb

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When I was a doing my ma on sentencing I went to Parliament to read the 1953 royal commission on capital punishment docs, the was a Tory Home Secretary talking about rehabilitation and reform and I just remember thinking this is insane we were more progressive in the 1950s

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It is not a barrister's job to 'debate.' It is no part of our job to express our own views. That's a personal choice. A barrister's job is to represent other people - every type of other person, in fact. That means a barrister's job is, fundamentally, to listen to others.

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I'll be at the Old Bailey on Mon in solidarity with @TheCriminalBar The soul of the Bar isn't found in glitzy arbitrations or appellate courts, it's in the junior going to the cells for the 1st time + standing up to a judge for their client. The Bar is nothing without them.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind

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Training to be a criminal barrister: 5 years. Cost of bar course: c.£13,000 Role: Complex, sensitive human & legal problems. Distressing material. Punishing hours. Responsibility: High. People may be sent to prison. Median annual income for juniors in first 3 years? £12,200

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You settled the channel pushbacks litigation two weeks before trial without a fight + agreed to pay the claimants’ costs in full, wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money on a doomed policy that the Royal Navy publicly refused to cooperate with.

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Priti Patel MP

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It has been the honour of my life to serve as Home Secretary for the last three years. I am proud of our work to back the police, reform our immigration system and protect our country. My letter to Prime Minister @BorisJohnson 👇🏽

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One reason to love the Human Rights Act 1998 is it only has 22 sections. That’s my kind of act. I can’t actually count to the end of the Companies Act.

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V chuffed to finally achieve the life goal of writing a tweet in a New Zealand accent

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Tell me why you became a probation officer. Well it was so I could work under Mr Grayling after he tried to ban prisoners’ books actually. Why do we think people do these jobs

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I’m genuinely a bit shocked at this. It reads less as plea from a Home Secretary for public order + protection (her public duty) + more as a tacit trumpian address to a mob. The police’s statements were far more emphatic. You worry where it will end.

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The Times leader writer on the eve of Tory Party conference getting ready to put the same 10 words about leaving the ECHR in a different order for the 1023rd time.

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Re @BarristerSecret ’s stories suggesting some people entering the profession a few years back were POSH. Didn’t realise that was controversial tbh. The Bar has come a long way since the 1990s + 2000s but still has A LONG Way to go. Anyway it reminds be of my 3 fav posh offs.

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The ‘why did you want to be a lawyer’ pupillage interview answer no one was expecting

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Funny things to stick in an act if you consider it to be completely compliant with international law

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"As drafted, as we intend this bill [Rwanda Bill] to progress, it will be in complete compliance with international law." Home Secretary @JamesCleverly adds that "the UK takes international law seriously". 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 and YouTube

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To anyone feeling it post pupillage decisions. I regularly deactivate my account here.I spend a fair amount of time atm thinking I’m not good enough to be a barrister, let alone one at my chambers. Imposter syndrome is part of the job. Just not one we talk about enough.Keep going

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One thing junior lawyers can learn from twitter is that slagging off other lawyers, as opposed to disagreeing and debating with them, says more about you than it does them, and makes you look like a plum.

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There are 2 things I thought everyone was taught as a trainee barrister. 1 is don’t get yourself a rep for undermining colleagues, it’s a small world + will never leave you. The other is that it’s crucial to know when to stfu + leave something. You’dnever know that on here.

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2 years

A 10 mile queue will not phase those who went to Alton Towers in the 90s

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I learned to read in this library, + at Pinner Park, Hatch End, + Harrow College in the 80s + 90s, Surrounded by my friends of indian, Pakistani, bangladieshi, caribbean, irish, jewish, iranian, chinese and somali ethnic origin. All English. Because that's how Harrow works 🩷

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@UB1UB2 North Harrow

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Jim Robottom

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Being an English legal aid lawyer is an attractive role for any graduate. Reasons for becoming an English legal legal aid lawyer include not having a pay rise for 20 years, long hours, nights out cancelled, no paid travel, and being assaulted by security to get into court.

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4 years

In English law, intentionally detaining someone with no lawful power to do so is false imprisonment, whether you are public or private, the police or a university landlord. And it’s actionable without proof of damage. You, know, cos English law takes detaining people seriously.

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8 months

Reporting or threatening to report people to their employer or regulator for expressing views on law that are aren’t defamatory,inciteful or otherwise unlawful is low behaviour which is incompatible with basic requirements of freedom of expression in a tolerant democratic society

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2 months

Morning mum that nice barrister who gave me some work when I was sick is prime minister smdh

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2 years

Why don't judges talk about chickens of destiny anymore? I love Lord Bowen. He's my favourite.

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1 year

Why are so many of our legal tests based on reasonableness? It’s so English. I wonder if in French law they have loads of tests based on how chic things are.

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4 years

I have been told that 1 hour’s baby sleep training coaching costs £225 and honestly I think I might get a direct access opinion from a shit hot junior on whether it’s contrary to Article 3 ECHR instead.

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10 months

Ran through? He looks like any standard 23 year old public school Oxbridge graduate on his first mini pupillage at a commercial set

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James Marsh 🌹

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10 months

Has a man ever looked more ran through than Daniel Craig wearing these glasses

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Do you just get up earlier and earlier as you get older until you’re actually operating a whole day ahead?

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