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Barrister/mediator, law of mental capacity, death, & inheritance, interested in rules of crowdfunding law, history & literature

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Joined May 2012

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@BarbaraRich_law

Barbara Rich

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3 years

I was called to the bar (qualified as a barrister) in 1990, thirty years ago, and half way through my life to date. I've revised something I wrote in 2017 to reflect on reaching thirty years' call - as much about time and place and other lives as mine

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At thirty years’ call

Learning to Read

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3 years

I am a British Jew. My mother was a Holocaust survivor who left Prague as a teenager, and my father’s grandfather left Russia to escape the pogroms of Tsar Alexander III. I’ve lived in London since infancy. I’ve never felt the proximity of ancient hatred here so strongly as today

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I’m not religious and I like living in a secular and plural society, where I have been highly educated and free to practise a profession. So did many of the assimilated Jews of the Third Reich. I tweet not to seek personal sympathy, but to open people’s eyes to what is happening

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Are you what used to be known as a “lady barrister”? Have you ever been mistaken for “a member of staff”affable or otherwise, when in a professional setting? If so, you are in distinguished company

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I have my views about litigation crowdfunding but the animus against J K Rowling for her £70,000 donation to a case which has permission to go to the UK Supreme Court is something to behold. She has a self-made fortune, is extensively philanthropic and can choose how to spend it

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2 years

Literally a professor of gender studies tells a professional woman to go back to her knitting

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“Boycott Gail’s”. The sedentary topplers of Dulwich Village and other middle-class parts of London arise. Aux pains au chocolat, citoyens

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4 years

Suella Braverman is the daughter of parents who came to the UK from Kenya and worked in ordinary jobs. She attended a state school, studied law at Cambridge and practised at the independent bar. Whatever your political views, her achievements do not merit this sneering contempt

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The Secret Barrister

@BarristerSecret

4 years

If this rumour is true, it is up there with Truss as the greatest subservience-to-talent ratio in legal history.

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3 years

An English QC here misquoting Niemoller’s “First they came for...”, which is a meditation on the moral shame that culminated in the Holocaust, in commenting on a ruling made by the High Court in England. The analogy is abhorrent

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2 years

I’m glad that Allison Bailey succeeded in her discrimination claim, but sorry that this outcome does not reflect well on some in our profession. Barristers should not have discriminated against a colleague or allowed personal views to affect a process which should have been fair

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Congratulations to @AllianceLGB who have now announced that they have won the case and defeated the challenge to their charitable status brought by @Mermaids_Gender with the support of @GoodLawProject . I look forward to reading the judgment. This is a good outcome for charity law

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11 months

What to look for in the judgment in Mermaids v Charity Commission and LGBA, to be published at 10am tomorrow - Does Mermaids have standing to appeal CC’s decision? Y/N - If Y, is Mermaids’ argument that LGBA’s purposes do not pass the public benefit test to be a charity right?

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A wave to everyone on my timeline who is here too, against antisemitism

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2 years

A rapid string of sexist and ageist insults this week “fishwife” “prune” “gammony crone”, all from people who appear otherwise actuated by moral purity and self-righteousness, two supporters of the Good Law Project. Glad not to know any of them or anyone like them in real life

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10 months

Former CEO of Mermaids is wrong. They failed on standing because Mermaids could not meet the legal test on the facts, not because the law is “so complex”. The judges gave no reasons at all for their lack of agreement on LGBA’s charitable status. LGBA remains a registered charity

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@billybragg @Jane66588568 @void_if_removed @twtomwilson If you think the Holocaust, following generations of prejudice and countless acts of exclusion from civil life, expropriation of property, arbitrary justice and killing of European Jews, began “with people deciding they could define someone “by their biology alone” you’re a fool

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@garrottecake I haven’t been able to face going into central London at all this weekend. It looks to have been horrible and intimidating. And it isn’t only London, but cities around the UK and around the world. People of good will must speak up against it and express their revulsion for it

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3 years

Thank you to the many people who have responded to and engaged with these tweets. I’m sure the majority of people feel revulsion at these threats and this intimidation and hatred, and a determination not to let it flourish any further

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2 years

How can the director of the Good Law Project claim that the Prime Minister broke the law by failing to comply with the public sector equality duty when the court found he played no part in these two appointments? See paragraph 135 of the judgment at

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@AlexSharpe64 Ah, an “art protest”, the phrase the low-paid people who have to clean it up from the street will no doubt have at the forefront of their minds and mention to each other insightfully as they do so

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Barbara Rich

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3 years

The Bar Standards Board has rejected a complaint about me from “Clare Simms” as managing editor of @rebell_justice . It has upheld my article 10 rights, finding no defamation or harassment in my tweets or breach of Core Duty 5 of the BSB handbook or the BSB’s social media guidance

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One of His Majesty’s counsel learned in the law, a man who professes to use the law to create a better world and who solicits money from the public to do so, commented publicly in a way which was a potential contempt of court during the trial of this grim, appalling murder case

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2 years

I wanted to wait until after judgment was published in her case before retweeting this thread from @mforstater . We barristers have strong and divergent opinions and important but not unlimited rights of freedom of speech. I think some of these comments at least test those limits

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Maya Forstater

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Just for pattern recognition, barristers stand out in my mentions. Most of the people who say nasty things about me online are anonymous anime avatar types. But several barristers have laid in ...

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@Independent This is so insensitive and opportunistic and only crystallises what many people have been thinking about this vigil for some time

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#HolocaustMemorialDay 2021 My grandmother Tereza Kafkova and her older sister Hedvika Wedelesova as young women. Two women of Prague, both murdered in the Holocaust in 1942. Never forget

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@billybragg @Jane66588568 @void_if_removed @twtomwilson And if you think it makes either a coherent or a decent point in the discourse in which you made it, you’re wrong. Have some respect for the fate and the memory of the people whose names are under your feet before you use them as props in a misguided polemic like this

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3 years

If you are moved to donate following the tragic death of Sarah Everard, please be aware that this campaign lacks transparency about its decisions to donate to specific charities, and that you can donate directly, with Gift Aid, to a charity you choose

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One of my parents was a teenage refugee from Czechoslovakia in Denmark from 1939 to 1943. Jewish lives were saved by the Danish resistance arranging their clandestine passage across the sea to neutral Sweden. The people who defaced this memorial today would have betrayed them too

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European Jewish Congress

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We are saddened and disgusted by the antisemitic vandalism that defaced the memorial in Copenhagen honouring the heroic efforts to save Danish Jews from the Nazis. This type of hate cannot be tolerated in today's society.

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@jk_rowling Hostage, meet fortune

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A tsunami of drivel about women’s state pension age and compensation for maladministration from an assortment of politicians and commentators. It’s unfair to younger taxpayers to burden them with the cost of non means-tested payments to a large cohort, some of whom are prosperous

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1 year

Litigation crowdfunding. What could be more indistinct and pointless than this outrage-fuelled campaign, which identifies neither a recognisable cause of action nor a claimant eligible to pursue it?

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If this is the end for HMQ, it is not a bad one, to reach the age of 96 appearing to be cognitively intact, and active and in good spirits, even in the last few days, and to live to know your great grandchildren. We should all be so fortunate as we grow older

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Imagine being a man who gave up a career in order to raise money like a secular televangelist to conduct often unsuccessful lawfare eg urging one charity to attack the registration of another, having the temerity to preach to women about “doing something useful with their lives”

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The women I know personally who care about the Parkrun fiasco include a mental health worker, a teacher, a women's centre director, a social worker and a midwife. Women can care about more than one thing at a time. Go away and focus more on your cases. One day you might even win.

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This crowdfunding campaign has now raised almost £0.5M for “women’s charitable causes”. All that its organisers, who do not even identify themselves by name on the crowdfunding website, will say is that they’ll be announcing which charities they intend to support “in due course”

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3 years

If you are moved to donate following the tragic death of Sarah Everard, please be aware that this campaign lacks transparency about its decisions to donate to specific charities, and that you can donate directly, with Gift Aid, to a charity you choose

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2 months

This is an abhorrent act of violent damage

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@Lorna9100M @billybragg @Jane66588568 @void_if_removed @twtomwilson @nicolelampert Dreadful. These people’s lives and terrible deaths are not props for a polemic which displays its utter ignorance of the origins of antisemitism in 1930s Europe

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Matthew Parris’s vision of euthanasia is one where people of full mental capacity and free of coercive influence will rationally choose to “check out early”. It’s a callous vision and it takes no account of frailty, folly, or loss of freedom in making a life or death decision

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Yuan Yi Zhu

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Matthew Parris says the quiet part out loud about euthanasia: “we simply cannot afford extreme senescence or desperate infirmity for as many such individuals as our society is producing.”

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I imagine that everyone who is and was able to form and retain memories remembers very clearly how near or far they were on 7 July 2005 from the terrorist attacks on London’s transport network that killed 56 people, mostly on their way to work, on an otherwise ordinary weekday

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People who say “never again” as they dutifully attend Holocaust Memorial Day events, people who draw facile parallels between post-2016 politics in the UK and 1930s Germany, people who rewrite Niemoller’s “First they came” for their own cause. There is no “never”. This is “again”

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A crowdfunding story in four episodes. 1. Man sets up GoFundMe appeal with £10,000 target to go to an existing charity for Horizon scandal victims. 2. Makes no contact with charity trustee. 3. Closes GFM at only 10% of target when questions raised about it. 4. Deletes X account

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@LegalGengar

Legal Gengar

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Fascinating that Simon Harris / MBD is now raising funds for victims of the Post Office scandal. Why not just direct them to the charity yourself? We've noticed that he has a habit of doing that: opening up multiple fundraisers and rarely accounting for where all the money goes.

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A boy made a model of Auschwitz to honour the life of his great-grandfather, a carpenter who was one of its few survivors. A photograph of his “eloquent testimonial” was turned into a political meme (now deleted) for clicks. There is no morality in this

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And when the professional woman, who has been nothing but polite and reasoned in her previous tweets, points out that she has some relevant academic knowledge from an LLM degree at the professor’s own university, what is the response? A block, of course

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3 years

Too many men who think of themselves as progressive never seem to hesitate to disparage and deride middle-aged women. The image of us as “dinosaurs” “hoarding” rights, like prehistoric squirrels, is particularly vivid - and inept

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@HadleyFreeman @KateNocera @susandominus “Gestational carrier”, what a terrible expression, like calling a pregnant woman a “bag for life”

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7 months

This is my city too, and one in which I’ve lived very happily for almost all my life, and where I hope to stay for the rest of it. “Please keep the world clean” on the poster shown in one of these pictures is direct repetition of the Nazis’ intent to make their world “Judenrein”

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Dave Rich

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Today people marched through my city with these antisemitic placards. Some called for jihad against Israel & for Israel to disappear. All this after a pogrom killed 1,300 Jews & another 200 Jews still held hostage by those same murderers. What am I supposed to make of this?

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1 year

Today in the court of legal Twitter: anonymous Secret Barrister v Charlotte Proudman, Jolyon Maugham intervening. A titanic conflict of “personal brands” as they variously accuse each other of childish narcissism, condescension, and getting the law wrong for clicks

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7 years

I don't usually like impromptu shrines, but this tribute to Michael Bond at Paddington this evening is very touching

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2 years

A QC and a professor of law embellish a misleading headline about a speech on social mobility. The article is about recognising social mobility more widely than in “elite pathways”, not discouraging people from aiming high. Twitter is a degrading medium for this sort of thing

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4 years

@catrionalewis If I was Director-General of the BBC I’d ensure that you never worked in public broadcasting in the UK again. You haven’t even had the integrity to acknowledge or respond to any of the copious non-abusive criticism which has been made of your earlier tweets

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Barbara Rich

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3 years

Every time a QC sneers at @Miss_Snuffy it jars against what I know of both our profession’s competitive entry standards and stated commitment to increase social mobility. She gives her students a chance to succeed in that competitive entry that they might never otherwise have had

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Chris Daw KC

3 years

This teacher is bonkers and should not be allowed anywhere near young children.

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Barbara Rich

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4 years

The cold fact that assets of people who die with neither wills nor (even quite remote) family are spent for the public benefit, as decided by independent trustees of a charity, & principally in the county where those people lived, would not attract so much attention or outrage

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What the actual fuck

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Barbara Rich

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10 months

I’m pleased to be shortlisted as Court of Protection junior of the year in the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2023, and grateful to those who recommended me, especially as I feel I’ve reached the career stage of vying for a legal awards equivalent of the mums’ and dads’ egg and spoon race

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5 Stone Buildings

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5 Stone Buildings and individual members have been shortlisted in nine categories in the #L500Awards Legal 500 Bar Awards 2023. Chambers has been shortlisted as Chancery Set, Court of Protection Set and Media and Art Set. See further details here:

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1 year

Always be sceptical of the word “technical” when used by someone on the losing side of a judgment in civil litigation

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Barbara Rich

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Judgment of First Tier Tribunal in @Mermaids_Gender challenge to decision of Charity Commission to register @AllianceLGB as a charity to be published, after v long delay, at 10am on Thursday 6 July. A significant case on standing to appeal such a decision, and on the issues 1/2

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A thread on the issue of standing in the legal challenge to the decision of the Charity Commission to register @alliancelgb as a charity, brought by Mermaids and other charities, supported by the Good Law Project, which is progressing through case management towards a hearing

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2 months

Whether or not your principles have led you to boycott Gail’s bakery, you can still cringe yourself into a pretzel at this ridiculous spectacle

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Barbara Rich

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3 years

I am sorry that Allison Bailey had to take the step of suing her chambers and Stonewall, in a case which must be difficult for all the individuals involved. But I hope its outcome will uphold the independence and freedom from external pressure of barristers in private practice

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Barbara Rich

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John Lewis - never knowingly underwritten

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John Lewis & Partners

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3 years

Please see a statement on our latest Home Insurance campaign below:

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6 months

The primary function of professional regulators is to protect the public from practising lawyers who are in breach of rules of conduct. I don’t believe that extending their remit into political speech and conduct would be straightforward or ultimately serve the public interest

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The Secret Barrister

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After disgracing her office as Attorney General and twice disgracing her office as Home Secretary, the Bar Standards Board should now consider whether Suella Braverman’s hateful, divisive rhetoric and record of undermining the rule of law is compatible with membership of the Bar.

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@L_Wastell @SpeechUnion @TonyDowson5 @toadmeister In the light of the judge’s “like” for this intemperately expressed LinkedIn posting (it has been reliably confirmed to me that this is genuine and is from the same judge’s LinkedIn account) I think he should arguably have recused himself from this trial

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1 year

“No one knows better than huge consumer brands what the future looks like” according to the Book of Maugham. Image on right taken by Jill Posner in 1979. And see also Kodak, Woolworths and every tobacco and oil company past and present

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3 months

If you think you live amongst well-informed, compassionate and tolerant fellow-citizens, listen to these people and think again

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Campaign Against Antisemitism

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“You can’t blame them for saying ‘curse the Jews.’” On Saturday, another anti-Israel march will be allowed to take place in London, this time culminating at the Israeli Embassy. Here is what some of the demonstrators at the last march had to say.

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@NicolaJBarker @yvetterusse11 She described the people she opposes as “fascists” and exaggerated her own academic status in an attempt to put a woman in the practising legal profession in her place. Unsurprising that this attracted criticism, and disingenuous to paraphrase it as you have done

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Barbara Rich

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9 months

When the founders of @AllianceLGB started an organisation which became a registered charity, it spent massive time and money fending off an attack on its charity status which this man and his law project played an instrumental part in promoting, raising funds for and supporting

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1 year

Happy Passover signs above a display of pork sausages, bacon and prawns in a London branch of @sainsburys . Enough cultural sensitivity to have the signs, not enough to hide the shop’s bone-headed ignorance of Jewish and Passover dietary laws which makes the gesture meaningless

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1 year

Lawyers who say “the law is wrong” and that by prosecuting or defending someone under an “unjust law” they are “giving credibility to that law” show contempt for the way English law is made and reformed, by an elected Parliament and by decisions of the higher courts, not by them

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7 months

After over thirty years practising as a barrister I always have a feeling similar to entering the parents’ egg and spoon race at primary school sports day about legal directory rankings. But I’m pleased to be ranked in band 1 in my principal fields of practice in @ChambersGuides

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9 months

I’ve read and seen a lot about Lucy Letby’s case: thorough, responsible, informative and from people close to the investigation and trial. But left no closer to comprehending her mind. Debate over compulsion to attend sentencing feels like a distraction from that incomprehension

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5 months

Hostage, meet fortune … again

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@jk_rowling Hostage, meet fortune

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1 year

Alan Rusbridger @rusbridger here, a well known public intellectual, editor of @prospect_uk and forme editor of @guardian misreading my tweet, “and you’re a barrister”ing me, and then blocking me before I could reply to his last tweet to me. For shame

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The Executive Director of the Good Law Project is a long-standing critic of the Charity Commission. He now describes it in delegitimising language as a “pretend” regulator, as it investigates Mermaids, a charity the GLP has supported in litigating against one of its decisions

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De gustibus and all that, but I think the Coronation invitation design is beautiful, a skilful work of modern heraldic art. Contrast some of the puerile, visually illiterate denigration of it, including from people whose thoughts are regularly published or broadcast in the media

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This is why I tweet about crowdfunding and the expectations it raises and how far they are fulfilled by sacrifices made by ordinary people in hardship. How far has the GLP succeeded in its cases, whether or not you believe it is “trying to resist the tide of fascism”?

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@RowlesDavis @yvetterusse11 @BristolUni She commenced the discussion by describing people she disagreed with as “fascists”, both insulting them and trivialising the word. The “go back to your conveyancing” sneer to you is beneath contempt, irrespective of the fact that your firm doesn’t even specialise in conveyancing

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@BoudicaThe @michaelpforan I’m a barrister in England and Wales, regulated by the Bar Standards Board, in private practice since 1991. I am self-employed and independent. Are you *seriously* suggesting I have been asked, persuaded or rewarded in money to express anything other than my own personal views?

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“Happy to send some sourdough starter”. Combining the ineffable air of both the clandestine revolutionary circulating samizdat behind the Iron Curtain and of the enthusiastic contributor to the freezer at a fertility clinic

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A propos barristers’ use of social media, this is dreadful. A serious insinuation about the privately held views of a serving High Court judge, who cannot respond and debate them here, nor should she ever have been put in such a position by these comments being published

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If you have been following Mermaids v (1) Charity Commission (2) LGBA as an observer or via live tweets this week, please don’t write to the presiding judge (female) with your views on any of the evidence. That isn’t how civil justice works. Amazing that anyone should think it is

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The UK Supreme Court has now refused permission to the GLP to appeal this decision because the application “does not raise an arguable point of law”

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Barbara Rich

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1 year

Judgment of the Court of Appeal dismissing the Good Law Project’s appeal on preservation of records of ministerial communications, a case supported by £180,000 crowdfunding. Note the sharp judicial criticism of the way the claim was put, at paragraph 71

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Keeping in mind that the legal test of standing required Mermaids to argue that it was “affected” by the decision to register LGBA as a charity, and its evidence that LGBA was affecting Mermaids by impeding its work, I find this assertion by Mermaids a little surprising

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Deeply unimpressive that Lord Falconer repeatedly referred to “safe spaces” (not statute language) not “single sex spaces” when giving evidence to WESC on GRR(Scotland) Bill and Equality Act, a subject on which precision and clarity of language is crucial

Charlie Falconer's testimony - Sex Matters

Numbers The Equality Act and “safe spaces” “Protecting women and girls” Risk assessment Everyone should agree on the law Let’s not talk about cross-dressers International gender recognition: nothing...

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And the truth turned out to be that Kate Bingham did offer her time and talents in service of the public good, and the cv that was published with the announcement of her appointment made it clear what experience and skills - all omitted from the sneer here - she had for that role

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Izzard feels he was “given the genetics of both” men and women. Drivel. Being a man is integral to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, who could not otherwise have vied for succession to his father as King of Denmark, and who is obsessed with the female sexuality of both his mother and Ophelia

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“I'm trying to track that down the woman in my myself as opposed to the old man in myself.” Eddie Izzard tells #TimesRadio how she channels both male and female characters in her solo performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. 📻 @EddieIzzard | @HugoRifkind

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@crimlawuk You clearly haven’t paid attention to eg the fact that in your and my profession, a set of barristers’ chambers which regards itself as progressive was recently ordered to pay aggravated damages to one of its members for discriminating against her on the basis of her beliefs

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Very proud of my lovely and accomplished niece - a decade between the end of year 7 at school and graduating with a BSc in Chemistry and German today, before going on to postgraduate medical school in September

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The more I read, the more I dissent from this description of this case. She was 44, knew she was pregnant in the autumn of 2019, and took no steps to seek a termination when she could have lawfully done so, months before lockdown. Then lied, to kill a child in advanced gestation

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Chris Daw KC

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One of the most shameful episodes in our criminal justice system in decades.

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The order of the Divisional Court in Bell v Tavistock has been put into the public domain. It includes detailed reasons for the court’s refusal of permission to appeal. These may dispel some of the misinterpretations of the judgment which have appeared in some commentary on it

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Before muting the words “Gary Lineker” forever, here is simply the worst comment on him and the BBC, in a field of very stiff competition. No one cares what many Jews think about their own tragic history, but if you are looking for an echo of 1930s Germany, it’s here

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Roshan M Salih

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The only reason why Gary Lineker got suspended is because the BBC is scared of the reaction of Zionists and their allies. He was allowed to cuss a Muslim country non stop without repercussions during the World Cup in Qatar.

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How many of her critics contributed towards the £83,692 litigation crowdfunding for Mermaids to sue the Charity Commission and LGBA? A case that was unsuccessful and against which there has been no attempt to appeal. People can choose how to spend - or waste - their own money

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This is simply nonsense, and disappointing from someone who has a large public platform. Trusts serve many purposes: joint ownership of land, managing funds for children, or for people who have received personal injuries damages awards, holding charity assets and pension funds

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If one thing is clear from the Kuenssberg Mone Barrowman interview is that trusts should simply be banned as their only purpose is to hide money from the public, the press, and the authorities and enable the owners of it to deny ownership.

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The perils of cross-examination in the world of personalised pronouns

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OD: Claire works in tax policy doesn't she? MF: They

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The one thing worse than a celebrity advocating for a law permitting assisted dying, the eternal well-loved consumer champion exposing a defective product to a large audience … this article. Assisted dying is neither “pragmatic” nor “uncontroversial”

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The Court of Appeal has ruled on costs in Banks v Cadwalladr: Cadwalladr to pay her own costs and 60% of Banks’s. Will money raised by crowdfunding be sufficient to meet that liability? It looks unlikely on current figures and

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It’s not every day that legal Twitter offers an academic lawyer explaining to you a case you happened to win in the Court of Appeal twenty years ago

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We, the largely fortunate British Jews of the post-Holocaust generation, never thought we would see the scenes on the streets of our home city, London, that we have done this year

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Another day when my heart freezes, and I wonder whether wearing my star of david is worth the risk.

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Everyone who comes to Twitter for public engagement with specialist knowledge of a subject knows how rewarding positive engagement can be. But there’s also this. Not “somewhat robust” as its author says, but aggressive, abrasive, slap in the face and totally unwarranted rudeness

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A former member of Garden Court chambers, now a judge, in cross-examination. I would be profoundly unhappy if a member of my chambers said anything about an internal complaints process and chambers meeting concerning me with anyone other than a member or employee of chambers

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I did that. if DR have problem take it up. he didn't do that. BC:P2238 25 Oct Email exch Jay Stewart gendered intelligence. he emailed you 'this is a bit of a worry, link to AB profile'. you replied 'now subject for internal complaints process and board meeting on Mon"

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A woman barristers can pursue a career she began in 1989 (when women barristers were rarer and faced more prejudice), and can be outstandingly successful in her career, but a progressive man in public life will still disparage her as “relatively competent”

Karon Monaghan KC - Matrix Chambers

Karon Monaghan KC practises principally in the fields of equality and discrimination law, human rights and EU law.

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Interesting manner here in which an MP refers to a leading equality and human rights barrister and KC 🤨

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A couple of pages from Kate Bingham’s book “The Long Shot”. Note for future reference the the names of those whose prejudices and whose willingness to believe media stories attacked and undermined the public service of a woman who is a role model for women and girls in science

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Vogue debuts a new look for lady lawyers … “inspired by women in law, and how they’ve shaped our history, citing US Supreme Court justices … as well as British judge Brenda Hale”. Imagine trundling a wheelie case from railway station to court and addressing a judge in this?

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The only man to have killed a fox and found it posthumously mutate into an albatross

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Here's hoping that no animal strays into Jolyon's garden tomorrow

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