Tim James-Matthews @tjamesmatthews Twitter profile

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

10 months

What an incredible piece of advocacy by Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC. So immensely proud to call her my colleague. #SouthAfricavsIsrael

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Tim James-Matthews

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7 years

Last night, my wonderful mother was kicked out of her church of 22 years and refused communion for wearing a marriage equality badge.

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7 years

She goes to church multiple times per week because it is meaningful to her, but she also supports me - her gay son - and my right to marry.

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Tim James-Matthews

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7 years

As a kicker - the priest noted that he would give communion to a priest who abused children, but not to my mum and her badge.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

3 years

Thank you to @BAILII for preserving this particular exchange…

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

If, after posting your yes, you wanted to post a complaint about this to @Holyfamilymenai - I wouldn't be mad.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

4 years

Here is today’s lesson in the banal cruelty of the systemic dysfunction in the justice system, and the injustices which it causes:

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

@Holyfamilymenai Apologies to the school - and whoever runs their twitter - for the confusion.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

4 years

Spotted at Westminster MC: At least one firm of solicitors has adopted branded face masks for its lawyers to wear to court.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

TWITTER, I HAVE A HUSBAND NOW

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

@Holyfamilymenai Apparently the account tagged is linked with the Holy Family Primary School not the Church - obviously connected, but probs dont @ them.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

2 years

The defamation claim brought by Yevgeniy Prigozhin against Eliot Higgins of @bellingcat has been struck out. Absolute privilege to work with @mccuejury on this case.

Matrix

@MatrixChambers

2 years

Guy Vassall-Adams QC and @tjamesmatthews acted for Mr Higgins in the defamation claim brought by Yevgeniy Prigozhin. Guy and Tim were instructed by Matthew Jury and Joe Snape of @mccuejury & Partners #DefamationLaw

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

G'day, twitter. Some personal news: I found out today that I have passed the Bar Transfer Test, and will be Called to the Bar of England and Wales later this year. Very excited for a new challenge. Hugely grateful to all who put up with my exam stress.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

4 years

So the hearing was adjourned to the first available date - March 2021. 5 months. He will spend 5 more months in custody - in some of the toughest conditions in prison due to Covid-19. Now he’ll spend Christmas in prison. Because we couldn’t get reports done, and cases listed.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Hey Twitter! I have news. 🌈

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

seconds before we married that bridge. finally. (happy new year @LyleShelton ) 🌈

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Y’all are officially on notice. 🌈❤️

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7 years

@james_cummins Yeah - because she asked him because she is an excellent angry Irish Catholic. What a position to take.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

After SIX YEARS of dating long-distance (Syd-Mel), I just dropped my fiancé to the airport for the last time. Next time I pick him up will be for our BIG GAY WEDDING! (and no more long distance ever!) 🌈❤️ Shout out to @VirginAustralia for the memories/frequent flyer points...

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

2 years

It’s the hottest day of the year, so naturally I’m off to hang out in an un-air conditioned room full of people, wearing robes and horse-hair wig. Thoughts and prayers, pls.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

2 years

Yesterday was a good day 👇

Birnberg Peirce Civil Liberties

@BPCivLibs

2 years

BREAKING: Windrush pensioner wins Equality Act case against Westminster City Council

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

5 years

and suddenly I felt slightly less far away from home... #AUSVote2019 #auspol #democracysausage

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

The fiancé’s family continue to give him gifts which are impractical to take when we move to London. The latest: a cast iron spice grinder. WHY MUST IT BE CAST IRON?! Why do they make spice grinders this heavy?!

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

4 years

Only - the hearing couldn’t go ahead today. Because a number of prison staff hadn’t completed reports on his progress - reports which had been outstanding for over a month. They’re busy. They’re under-resourced. They just had other work to do.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

5 years

Appeared in court for the first time today!

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

4 years

My client had been waiting for his Parole Board hearing since December 2019. There have been a number of (totally justifiable) delays and adjournments. But, *today* was his day. He was nervous, but ready for it. He’d been working hard, and has a great shot at release.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Just ran into my high school drama teacher while on date night with the fiancé - and he observed “we would never have dreamed about getting married in my day” and IM NOT CRYING YOU ARE. 🌈 #MarriageEqaulity

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Hamill J has done it again:

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

1 year

The use of ‘gangs evidence’ in criminal trials is a human rights concern. It’s often of dubious quality, difficult to challenge or interrogate, and can implicitly invite juries to reason by racist stereotype. It’s a privilege to act for @libertyhq in this case before the CCRC.

Liberty

@libertyhq

1 year

Liberty's lawyers are intervening in the case of 3 Black men who are challenging their #JointEnterprise murder convictions Joint Enterprise is particularly used against young Black men with flimsy evidence of gang involvement based on racist stereotypes

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Don Burke's "I have Asperger's" is a new and terrible innovation on "I choose to live now as a gay man". #ACA

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Imagine paying $1m to publicly spruik your moral beliefs, when you've paid $3.37m to privately settle your child sexual abuse allegations.

BuzzFeed Oz News

@buzzfeedoznews

7 years

Exclusive from @lanesainty : Sydney Anglican Diocese hands over $1 million to same-sex marriage "no" campaign

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Honestly, catering to the music tastes of straight people is the hardest part of planning a gay wedding.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

8 years

Bill's right! Australia doesn't discriminate. Muslim, Christian, whatever! We'll throw them all into a fucked up torture camp!

Bill Shorten

@billshortenmp

8 years

Australia has had a non-discriminatory immigration policy for more than four decades. It’s made us stronger.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

5 years

Wrong for so many reasons. Not least of which - If your teaching of criminal law doesn’t engage with the politics of the criminal justice system, it is rubbish.

Legal Cheek

@legalcheek

5 years

A retired judge has recommended that political subjects be removed from undergraduate law degrees

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Of all things I've been called on twitter this week "angry gay man" is easily my favourite. :') when the trolls get to know you personally.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

5 years

Who could *possibly* have foreseen that a broad, discretionary police power would be deployed against *precisely* the same communities that broad, discretionary police powers are routinely deployed against?

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

g'day twitter, meet my new pals.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

5 years

I defended my first Mags Court trial today, but it would appear that you are all tweeting about a *different* court decision???

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

4 years

Sad not be out at @PrideInLondon today. 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride #YouMeUsWe

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

is it normal to get 'first day of school' jitters for the first day of your PhD?

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

I DON'T MEAN TO ALARM YOU ALL BUT I JUST BOOKED FLIGHTS TO MY BIG GAY HONEYMOON

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

"Tim, why did you decide to move to the UK?" Me:

9News Australia

@9NewsAUS

6 years

VISION: A python has been filmed trying to eat a currawong on the roof of a Kingscliff home. Warning: Video may upset some viewers. #9News

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Tim James-Matthews

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7 years

Incredible news. Huge congratulations to @iclc and the team who worked on this important case!

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

They don’t need divine intervention. They need yours.

SBS News

@SBSNews

6 years

Scott Morrison says he has prayed and cried for Nauru asylum seeker children #auspol

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Some light Royal Commission reading while you are considering donating to The Salvation Army #RedShieldAppeal this year: * Report of Case Study 5: * Report of Case Study 10: * Report of Case Study 33:

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

The 'Message to Australia' by survivors of child sexual abuse given to the Child Abuse Royal Commission has now been published online: Suffice is to say that it makes for heavy (but thoroughly important) reading. #CARoyalComm

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

5 years

This morning I’m excited to be judging the ever-fabulous @LGBTmooting . Best of luck to all teams! 🏳️‍🌈

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

There has never been a more exciting time to move away from Australia and leave this mess behind. #libspill

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Pretty surreal experience to graduate from @Cambridge_Uni (+ @QueensCam ) with my Master of Law today.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Pro tip: if you can’t be with your fiancé on Valentine’s Day, be sure to get a box of wedding cake samples delivered so you can eat your feelings productively! 👍

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Currently en route to my first ever gay wedding and IM NOT THE WEIRDO PRE-EMPTIVELY TEARING UP IN AN UBER, YOU ARE.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

SIX YEARS ago @JontyAKatz et al played a prank on me by hiding hundreds of McDonald’s straws around my bedroom / in pockets of my clothes. I have moved house twice since then. And yet. Packing to move to the UK and I find this still in the bottom of a drawer. WILL I NEVER BE FREE

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

1 year

Incredible that it was only 18 months ago that Yevgeny Prigozhin sued @EliotHiggins in this jurisdiction, claiming that it was defamatory, untrue, and liable to cause serious harm to his reputation to allege that Prigozhin was responsible for the activities of Wagner Group...

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Nine Network and Sonia Kruger fail to have a racial discrimination case against them kicked out. They tried to argue that "Muslims living in Australia" are not a group of "ethno-religious origin" within the meaning of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW)

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

We have no place in Australia for orderly compliance with the constitution. That is not our way.

Sky News Australia

@SkyNewsAust

7 years

. @TurnbullMalcolm : We have no place in Australia for witch hunts. That is not our way. MORE:

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Tim James-Matthews

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7 years

Out today wedding planning and it's nice to know that the @cityofsydney has our back! #voteyes 🌈👬

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

5 years

Logging in to my first Zoom court appearance today:

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@tjamesmatthews

7 years

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Stephanie Peatling

@srpeatling

7 years

A picture says 1000 words, that's for sure, especially when it's by @ellinghausen . I call this 'Still life with no votes'.

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@tjamesmatthews

7 years

ITS IN HARD COPY NOW ITS REAL (Thanks, @UNSWLawJournal )

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

8 years

the man who picked a fight with a simpson's meme page would like us all to sing about the Aussie Value of larrikinism. right.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

4 years

I will watch absolutely every video of UK journalists and politicians dunking on Tony Abbott. Every single one. I can't look away.

Kay Burley

@KayBurley

4 years

“Tony Abbott is a homophobe and a misogynist” Health Sec @MattHancock : “He’s also an expert on trade” #KayBurley JM

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

5 years

Thrilled to have joined @matrixchambers as a member this week!

Matrix

@MatrixChambers

5 years

Congratulations to Tim James-Matthews who has successfully completed his traineeship here at Matrix. Tim is developing a practice in criminal law and extradition, public law and human rights, and media and .

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Tim James-Matthews

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7 years

I received the email response of 4 universities to the AHRC report. @VC_ANU is the only that begins with an important apology to survivors.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Housemate, who lectures in contract law, is delighted to discover that his students apparently refer to him as ‘Contracts Bae’.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

BIG GAY UNCLES! 😍🌈

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Huge day: first time in my life that my answer to my current occupation on the customs form couldn't be 'student'.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

in fairness to Barnaby, Malcolm Turnbull ~is~ inept.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Bad Man Lyle just shared an article complaining that amendments to the Marriage Act “places homosexual acts, forbidden by God, on a moral level with male-female married sexual intercourse.” WHY ARE YOU SO OBSESSED WITH US FUCKING?! Get a less creepy hobby, my dude.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Texting the fiancé about ‘Seven Mile Beach’, and phone keeps autocorrecting to ‘Seven Mike Beach’. I was picturing us on a beach with 7 x Channing Tatum as Magic Mikes. He was picturing 7 x Mike Wazowskis. We clearly have vastly different holidays in mind.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

2 years

I know that you have all been hanging out desperately for the latest edition of the Judicial College Guidance on Reporting Restrictions in the Criminal Courts. Well, I have some good news...

Matrix

@MatrixChambers

2 years

The Judicial College has published the new edition of Reporting Restrictions in the Criminal Courts. Guy Vassall-Adams KC and @tjamesmatthews contributed to this new edition #reportingrestrictions #criminalproceedings #criminalcourts

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Housemate is currently making me listen (for the second time) to the recording of his lecture to hear his students laugh at a joke he made.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

A genderqueer Australian drag queen has defeated a former Tory MP who opposed an equal age of consent in the UK Celebrity Big Brother house. 2018 is wild.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

2 years

Good morning from Inner London Crown Court, where it is -5 outside, and there appears to be no heating in the robing room! ❄️

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

I swear if one more fucken store is sold out of glitter. This is a goddamn hate crime.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

drunk reading all of the #hometovote tweets is a 💯 use of a friday night, tbh. #repealthe8th

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

5 years

Loves pride. Also loves havin’ a vote.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Of all the reasons to be up early on a Saturday, judging the @LGBTmooting is an excellent one. Good luck everyone! 🌈

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

dude looks like the shit Disney villain sidekick who got bullied so much he turned to a life of mediocre crime

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Imagine being part of a community with a history of “being picked on in a very big way”. 🙄

Paul Karp

@Paul_Karp

7 years

Katter "the consistent pattern of behaviour" (conservatives losing votes). Christians are paranoid because "we have a history of being picked on in a very big way" #auspol #MarriageEquality

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

5 years

Congratulations to Tony Abbott, who has just secured a hosting gig on Sky After Dark. #auspol

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

well I mean this is one way to celebrate finishing exams, right?

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Voting online in the NSW state election just isn't the same: 1. No democracy sausage available in my living room. 2. The joy of numbering every box to put Mark Latham last is just not the same when you are just clicking 346 times rather than righteously writing the last numbers.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

5 years

Exciting to see this in print!

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Wedding venue emailed me in relation to my fiance, Mark "Lucky girl getting to live in Melbourne". I dont know which bit they got more wrong

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Tim James-Matthews

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7 years

dude also has several nuclear submarines in his swimming pool just in case the navy get any ideas

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Imagine the sheer and astonishing arrogance of looking at a unanimous jury verdict, given after hearing weeks of evidence and - without reviewing any evidence yourself - declaring them to be wrong. #Pell

Herald Sun

@theheraldsun

6 years

"George Pell is a scapegoat, not a child abuser, in my opinion." Cardinal George Pell has been falsely convicted of sexual abusing two boys, says Andrew Bolt.

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Tim James-Matthews

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6 years

Get home to the fiancé very earnestly studying for his finance exams next week... ...to Ricky Martin’s 1999 hit ‘Livin’ La Vida Loca’. Never been more in love. 😍

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Get you a man who looks at you like my fiancé looks when surrounded by Great Danes.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Here's a riddle for your Monday: Is being deeply incompetent and unapologetically rude a job requirement for residential tenancy managers? Or is it merely a consequence of working in the job?

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

Incredibly damning report into Catholic Church Authorities' handling of child sexual abuse in Ballarat. Particularly strident criticism of Bishop Mulkearns - whose conduct is described as "extraordinary and inexcusable" and "appalling" by the Child Abuse Royal Commission.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Weird PhD-reading fact of the day: In the period 1991-92, the UK Parliament passed three separate pieces of legislation relating to badgers. (My PhD is only incidentally related to badger-law)

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

Packing to move overseas, and we’ve reached the “sentimental ugly useless ornamental spoon set” portion of my husband’s possessions. WHY DOES HE HAVE THESE?!

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

4 years

Proud to have worked with the @libertyhq team on the extremely important #ProtectEveryone Bill.

Liberty

@libertyhq

4 years

Gov says it wants to build back better – but the road map does nothing to #ProtectEveryone already left behind. We’ve teamed up with expert charities, NGOs + lawyers to present a new way forward that supports people to stay safe: THE PROTECT EVERYONE BILL

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@tjamesmatthews

7 years

TOO OVERWHELMED FOR WITTY CAPTIONS

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

4 years

I can fully recommend never reading the replies to this tweet.

Judicial Office

@JudiciaryUK

4 years

The full judgment in Shamima Begum -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department can now be found online

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@tjamesmatthews

7 years

oh, y'know, just doing some wedding planning

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

6 years

We do not need an unapologetic transphobe in the Lodge.

Scott Morrison

@ScoMo30

6 years

We do not need ‘gender whisperers’ in our schools. Let kids be kids.

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6 years

UK leadership spill TV coverage is WILD in comparison to the Australian coverage. The BBC have just crossed live to the Maidenhead Bowling Club where the over-70 set are fiercely competing, apparently with one eye on the TV awaiting the results. These are exciting times.

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Tim James-Matthews

@tjamesmatthews

7 years

So many LinkedIn notifications for “X has commenced as a summer clerk at TERRIBLE CORPORATE LAW FIRM”. RIP/good luck I guess.

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