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Hemel Hempstead Adoptee.Solicitor. Socialist. Ex-Judge. V Ch. Hemel Hempstead Town FC, Chair Bovingdon CC Cape Town Opera.Nelson Mandela. Elvis. TS Eliot.

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Fixed legal costs are in from today for most cases. I have campaigned for them for 30 years and wrote 3 books on the subject when it was barely discussed. Most lawyers oppose them, but when I ask them if they could afford their own fees the answer is always No. My case rests.
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LAWYERS THREATENED WITH BANKRUPTCY AND DISCIPLINE FOR TAKING ON HOME OFFICE
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LAWYERS THREATENED WITH BANKRUPTCY AND DISCIPLINE FOR TAKING ON HOME OFFICE

In a move which lawyers of all political views are likely to find very disturbing, the government is proposing to force the Immigration and Asylum Chambers of the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Trib…

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“Just a quick phone call” = “I want hundreds of pounds worth of legal advice for nothing.”
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@ElectionMapsUK My work as Labour candidate for Worthing in 1979 General Election is beginning to bear fruit😀
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Tomorrow, 1 May,I will have been a solicitor for 40 years. Profession more diverse by gender and race but less so socially. No regrets about choice, but the legal system and freedom under threat. Lawyers and judges more important than ever. Never give up.
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New football season likely to start on Saturday September 12th - not that I know anything particular :-)
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Lord Denning, when Master of the Rolls, used sometimes to sit unannounced as a magistrate in Basingstoke Magistrate's court, on one occasion having the Lord Chief Justice sitting with him. The current MR should sit as a District Judge now and then,
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The Future For Dispute Resolution: Speech: Master of the Rolls (15 pages)
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Whiplash: New rules to crackdown on fraudulent insurance claims Published7 hours ago - BBC website -not a single mention that damages have been cut by 80% for those genuinely injured Fact check yourselves @BBCNews Share
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Maybe Lord Denning made the odd mistake 😀
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@ElectionMapsUK You mean that there are genuine YouGov polls?
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3 years
I have had, staggeringly, over a quarter of a million views of my tweet re the Home Office’s proposal to presume a costs order against applicants’ lawyers. I will try and respond to all replies. It is heartening that so many realize the evil of this proposal,
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Been asked to speak to a commercial organisation with a turnover of tens of millions, free of charge. The subject? "The law firm as a business".
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No right to a trial in claims worth £10,000 or less from 1 June 2022 in the following County Courts: Bedford, Luton, Guildford, Manchester, Staines and Cardiff. Personal Injury and Housing Disrepair are excluded. PD 51ZC -143rd Practice Direction.
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Master of the Rolls: Whiplash Portal has already dealt with 60,000 cases since it went live last May. Er - no. 436 claims out of 45,718 - not 60,000- received have been settled, ie dealt with. Receiving a case does not mean it has been "dealt with". Ask the Legal Ombudsman.
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UK Govt today brings in law to allow it to ignore court decisions from its highest court on Human Rights. Such cases are against the Govt and laws -from Magna Carta 1215- exist to stop Govt breaches. If passed, UK has no human rights. Saddest day in my 41 years as a solicitor.
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D Day. My Dad landed on D Day. He died 10 years ago aged 96. He will always be my greatest influence. My faults are mine; my qualities are my Dad’s. No better man ever lived.
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From today you have no right to a live hearing - remote or otherwise -if your claim is worth less than £10,000 and you are in one of the 6 pilot area. First time in 1,000 years of County Courts
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Order received today from Central London County Court - without a hearing so no-one knew what was ordered at the time: Defence of 2nd defendant to be served by 4;30 pm on 20 March 2019. Order dated 2 May
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3 years
@slamellie @GeordieJoeHardy 8-10 points ahead in the opinion polls. Never, ever, forget that Hitler won the election in Germany in a free and fair vote. Afterwards was extremely different.
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Well that’s it folks. Get injured in a car crash and you get 80 % less than a minute ago. Nodded through by Donkey Parliament and London Labour. Rump Parliament. Shamed my country.
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7 years
Personal Injury Small Claims limit NOT going up in April. CPR amendment rules laid before Parliament - not included. earliest now October.
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2 years
Between 1979 and 2005 there were 7 General Elections. The electorate voted in as Prime Minister a lawyer in six of them.
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3 years
Earlier this week I tweeted a blog about Immigration Lawyers being subject to discipline and costs for failed claims. I expected 5,000 views. Currently it is at 622,000, 30 times any other post. There is significant resistance to Britain’s slide to Fascism.
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2 years
Court of Protection - urgent matters - now at least a year - used to be a month. Why? Cuts to public spending. If you want a civilised society, then you have to pay tax. It is not rocket science.
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Training contract - Part 2- I send nice email - need to take more care etc. - get apology -lesson learnt - then that we were "not my preferred firm so I might not have put in the time I have for others." These people are going to be solicitors.....
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Courts and Tribunal Service profit of £100 million on Court/Tribunal fees in 2016/17. That is a tax on justice whatever way you look at it
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RTA claims dropped by 46% in 2020, according to Government's CRU figures, widely regarded as very reliable.
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"Fast" Track cases now take 78.2 weeks to reach trial. The justice system in England and Wales is close to collapse. Source: Ministry of Justice Civil Justice Statistics
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4 years
Someone has come in to the office at home to help. What charging rate- that is the issue.
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4 years
Big shout out ( I believe that is the phrase) to my friend @CivilLitTweet - Gordon Exall for his work, blogs etc on remote hearings, work etc during current events.
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My Dad died 7 years ago today. I miss him everyday. Here is my blog from 5 years ago today.
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The average time taken to trial or first hearing for small claims is now 52.2 weeks, up 3 weeks from Dec 2022 and believed to be the longest ever. Source: His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Sevive Management Information Table
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I defy anyone, let alone a Litigant in Person, to understand the new Small Claims Protocol in relation to Vehicle Costs and protocol vehicle costs and non-protocol vehicle costs.
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4 years
My birthday good cheer is over. Later I will publish an attack on the outrageous decision of Truro County Court cheating a claimant out of damages against Royal Mail due to a mistake. It will be savage even by my standards.
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On behalf of Hemel Hempstead Town FC - @hemelfc - I can announce that as a thank you for your loyalty any existing season ticket holder will be able to purchase a full season ticket for next season - whenever that begins - for just £75- so thanks @DBoggins 😀
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6 years
TOP TIP: If applying for a training contract, best not to address it to "Mr Underworld"
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Don't know whether to laugh or cry - BBC checking that I am under 70 before allowing me in the studio....
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Case not issued because of £24 underpaid court fee error, when court counter had moved. As disgraceful a High Court decision as you will ever see.
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Delighted to announce on behalf of Hemel Hempstead Town FC - @hemelfc that anyone currently working in the NHS can get a season ticket for £75 for 2020/21 or turn up and pay £5 on the day as often as you want. Thank you from this club and this town!
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7 years
If the MOJ consultation paper on PI reforms was a pleading it would be struck out as having no reasonable prospect of success.
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4 years
Clocks go forward at 2:00 am. So start work on a file at 1:55 am, work for 10 minutes until 3:05 am and claim 1 hour 10 minutes. #thesearedifficulttimes
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Juries exist - in part - to apply common sense and public feeling to the law. I hope no jury in the land would have convicted the Bristol defendants - and they are right. Let us celebrate, not condemn, this jury's finding that it is unacceptable to celebrate slavery.
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Was thinking of drinking a couple of bottles of wine and then going for a 60 mile trip to see how my driving is. That's OK now isn't it?
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@Ollie_Bayliss Good riddance. Gambling companies should not be allowed to sponsor football leagues, clubs or shirts.
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76 year old gets 6 months prison for contempt of court for exaggerating personal injury claim
One Insurance Ltd -v- Beasley - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

Case No: G91NG313 In the High Court sitting at Nottingham 20 October 2020   Before: His Honour Judge Godsmark QC (Sitting as a Judge of the High Court) Between: One Insurance Ltd -v- Beasley APPROVED...

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Unless I am missing something, the 19 members of the Law Society 21st Century Justice Advisory Group had 3 solicitors- 1 each from Allen and Overy, Weightmans and Hogan Lovells. Nothing against you -but are they the best placed solicitors in the land to advise on Legal Aid etc?
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Practice Direction for Litigants in Person in new sub £10,000 Road Traffic small claims track runs to 79 pages and 832 rules, sub rules etc. Add this to the pre-issue protocol and you have 168 pages and 1,684 rules. @UKSupremeCourt -strike this tyranny down.
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2 recent, ludicrous decisions depriving claimant of 10% damages uplift because only just beat offer. Logic is that claimant must make very lowball offer, allowing D to accept, and therefore undersettle. Mad.
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Bott and Co Solicitors get permission to appeal to Supreme Court against Court of Appeal ruling that Ryanair could respond to clients direct and avoid legal costs.
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Off to the draw for the FA Cup First Round Proper at the invitation of the BBC - in my @hemelfc top of course 😀 Live tweets later! Hemel/Oxford is ball 66.
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Training contract application: Dear Ms Underwood - I attach covering letter. Covering letter - Dear Ms Turley -..interest in training contract at Underwoods Solicitors...I am particularly interested in Longmores Solicitors...
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Shameful day. Court fees up 600%. No pretence that we have a court system for ordinary people now. No party opposed it. On road to Nuremberg
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Delighte to announce that @hemelfc -Hemel Hempstead Town FC will be hosting the big charity match for £ for @NHSuk by @CharityFC2020 - full details in Hemel Hempstead Newsletter - here
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD NEWSLETTER - 169.pdf
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3 years
In this very difficult time I am sure that we can all rejoice in the defeat of Trump.
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Online Road Traffic Accident Small Claims Portal for Litigants in Person has 89 pages and 852 rules, sub-rules, sub-sub rules and sub-sub-sub rules- not including rules if the matter is issued. Any comment "One Rule" SCJustice Briggs?
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Always been reluctant to drink alone at home. Great to be forced to in the public interest. We all have to make sacrifices in these difficult times.
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4 years
My new great niece born this morning.😄😄
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5 years
@RossMcCaff London is a little known suburb of Hemel Hempstead.
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Legal sector in UK worth £36.8 billion a year- 7% of the world's legal spend - - Lord Chief Justice. Second largest legal services market in world.
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8 years
Please RT if you are not expecting your motor insurers to cut your premium as promised.
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2 years
Belsner - para 98: "The client in this case has never had any real or economic interest in the pursuit of this costly litigation. Only checkmylegalfees have such an interest."
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4 years
I have just won a raffle prize of a midweek caravan break in Great Yarmouth.
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I am a claimant in a Small Claim which the court has suggested, very sensibly, should be mediated. I have been a litigator for over 40 years and am really struggling to understand the forms. Good luck courts with the Civil Liability Act.
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3 years
Here is the 64 page guide for Litigants in Person for around 90% of Road Traffic Accidents occurring from Monday onwards
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6 years
Delighted and honoured to have been made Vice Chairman of Hemel Hempstead Town Football Club. Thank you @hemelfc 😀
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Birmingham Regional Costs Judge holds 400 Conditional Fee Agreements valid; capped percentage of damages for all costs is of itself informed consent. No fiduciary duty pre-retainer. Declines to be bound by Belsner, and distinguishes it anyway. Spot on.
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Got my bowel cancer test results back from @NHSuk extremely quickly. All clear. Thought I would share that with you. Joking apart - not much fun - but important - so go poo now!
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@PriorQc I was born in a council house. Remember 40 years ago in the "robing room" - what a disgusting classist term -a public school tosser mocking me - invited him outside- he told the Master who said he deserved a good thumping - and ruled in my favour on the case.
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Litigants in Person portal meant to be suitable for - er- Litigants in Person. Inventors of this portal want Court of Appeal to rule on key issue of mixed claims. Discuss. Will they self-represent or instruct counsel? Discuss. Are they hypocrites? Discuss.
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Rwanda deportations: UK voluntarily submits to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights: they are not "foreign judges" - it is part of our court system. The European Convention on Human Rights is part of our domestic legislation: scheduled to the Human Rights Act.
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@UKLabour That's why the Parliamentary Part voted against the new tiers - oh no wait a minute we abstained ...strange form of decision that.
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@KarlTurnerMP @asda Any chance of them treating their staff half as well?
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@TheVanaramaNL Next week the FA Council meets to discuss what to do following the incident in Sarajevo and the outbreak of the First World War.
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I book flight with @KLM_UK - pay £124.50 to upgrade. They cancel flight and text me in middle of night a few hours due to fly. Don't cancel charge. @AmexUK accept their lies that the plane flew = so now I have to sue both of them. Merry Christmas to the pair of you!
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Am speechless
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(1) Small Claims Portal draft letter: - "Dear Client, I am delighted that the insurance coy has offered £0.00, rather than £0, which means you can continue on the portal and get nothing, rather than wait to get nothing for your injuries" Love and kisses - Ministry of Justice.
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Just passed a million visits to the blog. I am humbled.
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@CivilLitTweet Have a compliments file - you will receive hugely more compliments than complaints. On bad days - there will be some - read it and think of all the people glad of your help.
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5 years
Birthday card from my colleagues......
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7 years
No understanding in PI consultation that taking £1 billion out of economy by cutting damages means less spending, less VAT collected etc.
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Judges enjoy great constitutional protection -rightly so- serious errors and they keep their post and pension. That makes it sickening when they act like rabid dogs if a lawyer makes a trivial mistake.Peterson and the £24 court fee ranks with Mitchell as the century's worst case
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@BritainElects Trump is less popular than Covid?
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My Dad was born 108 years ago today and passed away 12 years ago. Still miss him.
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3 years
Court of Appeal has granted permission to appeal in the Belsner case, where High Court held that solicitors must cap all charges in all cases by reference to damages.
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9 guilty of contempt of court by fabricating RTA claims. Sentence to follow. Well done LVI for bringing the contempt proceedings. Matter for the court but long prison sentences would send out the right message.
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So from April 2024, when a new clinical negligence claim comes in you have to decide whether it is for Small, Light, Standard,Fast,Intermediate, or Multi-Track and if Intermediate which of 4 Complexity Bands. Still not clear to me of Fast whether Complexity Bands come into play.
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l I would like to be doing my job and helping people with legal issues rather than spending most of my time dealing with the useless,pointless and damaging GDPR.
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Civil Procedure Rule Committee Minutes for December 2022 show that it is proposed that all Small Claims- that is £10,000 or less- automatically be transferred to mediation.
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. @Telegraph Apart from sacking 20,000 police officers.....which for most of us is rather naughtier....
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If you drive with your bum facing the windscreen then I think any whiplash injury will be lower torso and outside the tariff system.
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4 years
What a great local paper we have😄
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The Future For Dispute Resolution: Speech: Master of the Rolls (15 pages)
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Is "onboarding", as an expression for getting a new client, the most annoying term in history?
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Speech by Court of Appeal Judge - Lord Justice Birss- re Online Dispute Resolution. Unfortunately, along with the Master of the Rolls, he sings the virtues of the new RTA Small Claims Portal, blissfully unaware that it is an unmitigated disaster - 10 pages
Speech by Lord Justice Colin Birss: Online Dispute Resolution Forum - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

Keynote speech was given by the Deputy Head of Civil Justice

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2 years
You can rob a bank in less than 9 minutes and get a £20 fixed penalty notice and no criminal record, as long as you did not realize it was a bank, or that you were there. [This is not real legal advice]
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Kerry Underwood
@kerry_underwood
7 years
Just voted Labour- postal vote- and with more enthusiasm than since 1974 when I had the privilege to vote for Harold Wilson- a true great.
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Kerry Underwood
@kerry_underwood
3 years
@Ollie_Bayliss Very obvious we need a no confidence vote in virtually every football authority. Rise up EFL, as the @TheVanaramaNL clubs have and get rid of those running, and ruining, football.
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Kerry Underwood
@kerry_underwood
4 years
Road Traffic Accident claims down again and now 21.2% lower than 8 years ago.
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Kerry Underwood
@kerry_underwood
3 years
Costs Budgeting has made litigation so much simpler and cheaper! Here is a 35 page High Court judgment on an application to vary a budget.
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Kerry Underwood
@kerry_underwood
2 years
OK - after - for some - a dry January let's have legal terms slightly adjusted for drink purposes, so I will kick off with Port 36; Clarety of pleadings; Baileys Law Reports;
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