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1 year

The Forestry Act 1967, s 9, which requires a licence from the appropriate forestry authority to fell trees. Even with a licence, the HSE guidance for tree work, which clearly isn’t being followed here

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Men, what's stopping you from looking like this?

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It’s a subtle way of a man reassuring his partner he’ll last longer than Liz Truss

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Maybe I'm just no fun (probably true?) but I hate this. All I want is for our apex court to have just some sense of dignity. The work the Court does is serious. It's not a joke. It's not a meme. It has a huge impact. Lives are changed. Take it seriously.

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1 year

The Supreme Court teddy bear will be accompanying the Court when it sits in Manchester next month, and needs a new name! Comment with a suggestion of what we should call the bear by 1 March, and one will be chosen. For inspiration, here's the teddy at @UKParliament in January...

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@ElfordJon Is leaving your kids fatherless by dying in a preventable workplace accident manly?

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I think I’ve found the least informative statute title ever.

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4 months

The SNP’s illegal conduct of international relations must stop. It’s clearly against the law. If they want to amend the Scotland Act to gain that power, let them make the case for that, but until changed, the law is the law.

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First Minister Humza Yousaf tells reporters why he invited Turkey's President Erdoğan to Scotland. Q and story @andrewlearmonth

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Even by the very low standards of NYT coverage of Britain, this betrays an astonishing ignorance of basic facts about the UK’s constitutional arrangements.

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Bona vacantia (here, in the Duchy of Lancaster ) isn’t remotely secret nor a revelation. This is typical ignorant nonsense.

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7 months

‘The law is really old’: please just sack all the social media specialists

Metropolitan Police

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7 months

@ArchRose90 This incident is being reviewed but it’s worth us explaining why it’s a tricky one for officers. One of the challenges is the law that covers flares is really old (1870s…) and it focuses on firing and throwing flares/fireworks not just holding them. There’s also no law about…

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This should say HM Government, not UK Government

UK Prime Minister

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7 months

Yesterday, PM @RishiSunak announced plans to create a ‘smokefree generation.’ This will mean it will be an offence for anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 to be sold cigarettes in England, protecting an entire generation of young people from the harms of smoking.

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This is *fantastic*: typographer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has filed a witness statement defending the decision of a lawyer who, in accordance with Typography for Lawyers 2d, used *correct* double spacing (24pt for 12pt font) not MS Words’s ‘double’ (not really) spacing.

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1 year

Law memes anyone?

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Today is the anniversary of the execution of King Charles I. Whatever else one may think of him (and he was a complicated king), his speech at trial was perhaps the best ever given by a litigant in person.

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Late night silliness

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If you are a peer of the Realm, and not the younger son of a duke, you cannot and have no right to use the style ‘Lord Forename Surname’. His Lordship should learn correct form before lecturing others.

Lord John Kilclooney

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If you are gay - and it appears that many are - you do not need to mention it every time!

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Very good letter by the Lord Pannick KC in the Times today

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6 months

@BellaWallerstei Sometimes octopuses are just octopuses? (Or, if you prefer, sometimes octopodes are just octopodes?) Octopuses are cuddly and there is nothing antsemitic about them; it’s only when Jews are caricatured as bloodthirsty octopuses (which this plushy isn’t) that it’s antisemitic

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I am one of the few people to have published on terrorist flag law.. I’m also a member of the Flag Institute (though my opinions are my own, and not the FI’s). I am fairly certain the ‘black flag with white shahada’, font regardless, qualifies as support for terrorism.

Metropolitan Police

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While this tweet has been deleted, the claim about flags is still being shared. The flags in the lower left photo are not those of ISIS. They are the ‘shahada’ which is a declaration of faith in Islam. ISIS flags may appear similar but are not the same. We have…

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There’s only one correct outfit for constitutional occasions

Joe Dudek

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Post the outfit you'll be wearing for the constitutional crisis.

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His Majesty the King, our dread Sovereign Lord, has issued in exercise of Royal Prerogative proclamations decreeing that.... there are to be some coins with dinosaurs made.

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5 months

Dr Johnson said it best

The Bar Council

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5 months

Nick Vineall KC, Moira Smyth KC, & @RoddyQC respond to the @Telegraph front page 'Starmer helped free dangerous prisoners' -"The idea that barristers (or advocates) should somehow be associated with the causes of those whom they represent is misconceived."

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Ms Wilson’s complaint against the abominable courtroom behaviour of advocate Lorenzo Alonzi has been upheld. Excellent news. Defence counsel are bound by ethics and it is right they are punished when they go beyond the boundaries of those ethics.

Ellie Wilson

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I fought the law and I WON! After being subjected to a humiliating ordeal in court by my rapist’s defence lawyer, I started the arduous process of submitting a complaint. I had to study the law, compile it all myself, facing off against a team of lawyers… and it’s been upheld!

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An excellent letter in today’s Times

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Jonathan has now been a loyal subject of every Sovereign since William IV…

Governor's Office - St Helena, Ascension & Tristan

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3 months

We're pleased to announce that @CommonsSpeaker Sir Lindsay has arrived in St Helena for his official visit! One of the first stops for the Speaker was meeting our beloved Jonathan, the 192-year-old giant tortoise🐢 The speaker presented Jonathan with his Guinness World Record!

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I’ve probably shared these before, but the Coronation stamps, with their characteristically Carolean aesthetic, are beautiful.

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1 year

To my deep discomfort, Mr Tilley KC’s report into Mr Raab MP repeatedly puts the footnote marker before punctuation rather than after it. In English (but not French), the superscript always follows punctuation!

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3 months

Dear British media, You can just say ‘the King’. Unless otherwise specified, everyone knows that means Charles III and not Willem-Alexander. Yours etc, Elijah Granet

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7 months

Fuck this sexist headline. Ms Wheeler KC is an accomplished & distinguished senior barrister, one of the best in the country, who has done a lot more of substance than her ex-husband. She’s earned being referred to other than by virtue of her former spouse. Shame on the Guardian.

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1 year

@BarristerSecret @andreajenkyns Also, she says only UK courts should be arbiters of UK law, but, of course, the ECHR is only an arbiter of international law (namely, the liability of States under international treaty). It does not decide UK law, nor can it issue declarations of incompatibility.

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5 months

NEW: it’s that time of year and I present the top 15 JUDICIAL SMACKDOWNS of 2023. Be warned—BRUTAL and VICIOUS judicial TAKEDOWNS inside!

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2 months

Disgraceful and undignified. The only proper identity for any law society worth its salt is, of course, heraldic

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We've got a new look 👀

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8 months

Although this may be coloured by the fact he appears to have sold his title several times, the last Byzantine pretender sold his title to the King of France. Applying the Andorra logic, that makes Macron the current Roman emperor.

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8 months

Tell me your favorite fact about the Roman Empire, now

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3 months

For those of you wondering about these scenarios, where the Supreme Court isn’t supreme in the UK, check out my infographic !

Mihir

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3 months

Was looking at the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council’s schedule this term and it is hearing 2 cases from its domestic jurisdiction for the first time in years to my knowledge. Wonder when the last time was? @legalstyleblog

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Scotland ACt 1998, schd 5, para 7(1): ‘international development assistance and co-operation are reserved matters’. Why does HM Govt allow this?

Scottish Government

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5 months

At @COP28_UAE , First Minister @HumzaYousaf announced almost £1 million to not only support health and wellbeing projects, but address climate change in the Global South. The First Minister also reaffirmed Scotland's commitment to a just transition to net zero. Watch for more.

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We’re almost in 2024: surely we’ve long moved past the outdated nonsense of 1649? Modern Britain long since settled on monarchy.

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We’re almost in 2024 FFS… When are we going to end all this nonsense?

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I see why I’m single

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NEW: the Chief Justice of India opened an arbitration case with an analogy to the reception of Joyce’s Ulysses. In this Note, why that’s the wrong way to open a judgment!

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2 months

Excerpts from an 1841 LLB examination for the University of London… how well can you do?

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1 year

It’s a grave, grave error that this time they elected not to list each of the Realms. It wouldn’t have taken long to name check the fourteen, and it would have mattered.

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4 months

When a Lord Justice of Appeal pointed out to the late Michael Lavery QC that he had argued opposite points on successive days in different cases, Mr Lavery QC said, ‘My Lords, I am simply a taxi for hire.’ To which came the response, ‘More like a limousine, Mr Lavery.’

Matt Schettenhelm

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4 months

Last week, Paul Clement told the Supreme Court that its Brand X decision was a "huge embarrassment." What I had forgotten is that the government brief that pushed the Court to adopt that approach was written by. . . Paul Clement.

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1 year

1) I dislike Mr Raab intensely, politically and personally. He is not a good LC. 2) he has fully earned the right to wear the robes of Lord High Chancellor by virtue of being named by the King on the advice of the PM to be Lord High Chancellor

Chris Daw KC

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1 year

Bully Raab in fancy dress. What an insult to those who earned the right to wear judicial robes.

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4 months

God save our gracious King

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🚨 BREAKING: The official King Charles portrait that taxpayers will pay £8m for schools, police stations and councils to hang up

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9 months

Some mild personal news: I’m doing an LLM at the University of Southern California, so my tweet times may be off, but I vow to you that I shall never, never, never change my view that the Bluebook is an abomination against good style.

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9 months

This sort of mocking, joking tweets is disgraceful. It condescends to and insults the victims of crime, is unseemly celebratory, and acts like policing is all one big jolly jape.

Lancashire Police

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9 months

How it How it’s started 🤑 going 🤔

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3 months

This is a disgrace. A pathetic disgrace. The High Court of Parliament was ready to give justice to sub-postmasters, but the present government, unable to resist snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, halts it, for no reason other than cowardice. For shame!

Benjamin Lewis

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Don't worry every one, the handwringers have got their way, we're going for the super slow, maximal cruelty option, instead. And let's be clear: if you think this is better, you are being cruel purely for the sake of being cruel.

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His Majesty’s Horses do not rampage through London. The honourable Equines rather patrol the streets and rude Londoners fail to move aside for the King’s ungulates.

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Moment escaped Household Cavalry horses rampage through London

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1 year

I asked AI to show me a barrister fighting a fox.

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1 year

Sterling work by ⁦ @JoshuaRozenberg ⁩ in getting the sentencing remarks for the cyclist/pavement manslaughter case, which confirm the key fact that this was a mixed path (ie, the cyclist was lawfully on the pavement)

Why Grey got three years

Judge explains manslaughter sentence on pedestrian who killed cyclist

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Lord Denning was counsel for the company in L’Estrange v F Graucob Ltd, and then spent his judicial career fighting against the view of contract he successfully argued in that case.

Garett Jones

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Name other scholars beside Oppenheimer who spent their later years running away from their early work

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1 year

The judiciary aren’t the national audit office . In the UK, that role is taken by the National Audit Office.

Good Law Project

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1 year

From this, and other decisions, it is apparent that (we think disappointingly) the judiciary has little appetite to examine the use of tens or hundreds of billions of pounds in public money in the pandemic.

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@DrJessTaylor Note he remains in prison for a very long time anyway because of California convictions for which he got 16 years and he’ll be retried in New York where he still has a good chance of being convicted again so he’s absolutely *not* walking free

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Oh thank goodness HMG is finally doing something about Scotland openly engaging in reserved matters of international relations and international development

Georgia Roberts

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@David_Cameron writes to Scottish gov threatening to withdraw FCDO cooperation - inc use of Scottish hubs in UK embassies/advice - following @HumzaYousaf ’s meeting with Pres Erdogan at COP28. Told Cameron wants to take a “harder line” than Cleverly to Scot gov activity abroad

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8 months

Amazing, 100% real convo just had w/ Chinese colleague (CC): CC: [after hearing I know French] is bloody, as in ‘my bloody laptop’a French word? Me: no, it’s a British expression CC: oh because when [British Prof. at USC] says that in lectures he says after ‘Pardon my French’

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Edis LJ is my new style icon

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1 year

By popular request (from inter alios @yuanyi_z ), I present the re-typeset coronation liturgy!

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8 months

How dare the photograph of the Prime Minister (which has no place on letterhead) be so much larger than His Majesty’s Royal Arms? Outrageous

Ed Llewellyn

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A message from Prime Minister @RishiSunak welcomed our guests to this year’s 🇬🇧🇮🇹Pontignano Conference #Pontignano 👇

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@Ned_Donovan ‘ Those could be the bones of any two boys locked in the tower’

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I'm not Christian, never have been, no interest in becoming one. It's perfectly fine for the coronation to be very Christian.

UnHerd

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King Charles should embrace the Christian grandeur of the ceremony | @legalstyleblog

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9 months

At [2023] EWHC 2063, Fam, Roberts J repeatedly and incorrectly calls the State to the west of England the ‘Republic of Ireland’, rather than ‘Ireland’. As I write here, that’s an error, against comity and Foreign Office practice.

Why judges need to get Ireland's name right…

A blog about legal style, dealing with writing, drafting, typography, correct terminology, and more.

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@fordm If only there was some medication that could help people keep their attention focused on this issue.... (Sorry, I don't mean to trivialise a serious medical shortage, but I couldn't resist the joke)

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And thanks to @RobertBuckland for the return of the wig. That was the first step in doing the impossible, returning the magic into the daylight.

Dr Nigel Fletcher

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Congratulations to @AlexChalkChelt - the first Lord Chancellor in many a year to attempt the tricky manoeuvre of reversing down the steps of the throne whilst bewigged and robed, without falling over. It’s a core ceremonial skill. #StateOpening

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This is one of the worst written letters I’ve ever seen to the point of near-illiteracy. Some ‘sentences’ border on incoherence. Worst of all, there’s letterspaced lowercase (shudders) at the bottom!

Andrea Jenkyns MP 🇬🇧

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Enough is enough, I have submitted my vote of no confidence letter to the Chairman of the 1922. It is time for Rishi Sunak to go and replace him with a 'real' Conservative party leader.

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@ScottHech She also hasn't read the US flag code which states the flag is not to be worn as an article of clothing.

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4 months

As someone currently earning an LLM (master of laws), and who refers to myself regularly as an ‘LLM’ to distinguish from my ‘JD’ colleagues at USC, I am constantly doing doubletakes when people say things about LLMs and mean large language models.

Gary Marcus

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4 months

People (even smart people) are still not getting extent to which LLMs truly are black boxes. Suggestion below is clever–but nobody has any solid idea how to implement it. in would be trivial in something akin to multiple regression; it’s unsolved and maybe insoluble in LLMs.

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@yuanyi_z What…

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A mixed day. On the one hand, bad news: England loses in football to Spain. On the other, good news: the Treaty of Utrecht ceding Gibraltar to in perpetuity to His Britannic Majesty continues to be in effect for the 113,345th day in a row.

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Adobe Firefly is fun. You can use it to imagine things which don't exist and never happened, like a snail being in a ginger beer bottle. (MRS DONOGHUE'S CASE WAS NEVER PUT TO PROOF).

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France does ceremony right—and let it never be said that Republic cannot have ceremony and pomp and pageantry! British republicans, who seem to hate any form of ceremony or pomp more than the monarchy itself, seem to miss this point.

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A nice touch at the end of the Delors ceremony, as the the coffin was carried out of the Invalides: some soft jazz was played. Delors would have approved. He told me Sonny Rollins, the virtuoso saxophonist, was his favourite.

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@FBIBuffalo @JefferyPetts You’re not cooperating with your Canadian counterparts? You mentioned everyone else but them.

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2 months

Ironically this flyer seems to be setting up a contract law problem

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I find it very disturbing and upsetting that Master McCloud has been hounded out of office for her gender identity, when her judicial performance has been uniformly praised as excellent. This is deeply wrong.

Kirsty Brimelow KC

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Very sad news. She was deservedly a very well respected Judge. She sticks in my mind as someone I met within the legal profession who was decent, kind and supportive.

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@KyleWOrton @BriannaWu Brianna Wu, John Fetterman, and Ritchie Torres have seen their political stock rise like 10,000% in my estimation since 7 Oct.

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Periodic reminder that American Samoa has a House of Lords and the French territory of Wallis et Futuna is a monarchy where the kings have temporal and judicial jurisdiction and are salaried officers of the Republic.

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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer The senate of American Samoa is limited to the nobility and the American Samoans apparently like it that way enough they want to stay American nationals not American citizens

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"A criminal trial is not a game under which a guilty defendant should be provided with a sporting chance. It is a search for truth in accordance with the twin principles that the prosecution must prove its case and that a defendant is not obliged to inculpate himself"–Auld LJ

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This antisemite, with 88 in his username no less, is apparently a lay employee of a law firm. He ought to be banned from working for an SRA regulated entity. I shall make a complaint to the regulator.

Dilly Hussain

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This is the kind of welcome ALL Israelis should be receiving at the airports of Muslim-majority countries.

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This should not be allowed. Very disturbed by Birss LJ's conduct.

British judge uses ‘jolly useful’ ChatGPT to write ruling

Court of Appeal judge says AI-powered chatbots have ‘great potential’

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@BellaWallerstei They literally met two months ago and have met before that.

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@nzsamueltaylor Meanwhile Sadiq Khan on Susan Hall:

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Litigants and counsel and the public before the UKSC are not customers and framing it as a consumer relationship, just like with everything from the NHS to dating, undermines the integrity of the institution. On this hill I will die.

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@legalstyleblog @yuanyi_z The customer service is about the process of receiving your case, how easy it is to submit papers, get advice if needed, pay the fee, book a room for a con, get thru security, log on to WiFi, observe a case online etc etc. Being world leading in the process not the outcome

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Sensible given the Lords is by far the most effective and well functioning institution of the British state at present and the biggest source of scrutiny, a fount of good legislative deliberation, and guardian of civil liberties

Politics UK

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🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has ditched his promise to abolish the House of Lords in a first term as he seeks to make the Labour manifesto "bombproof" of Tory attacks [ @ObserverUK ]

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Bravo to the Times for calling out the Supreme Court's typographical ignorance

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Little known fact, but this means it’s now an admiralty court ;)

Gordon Exall

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Sheffield Crown Court forced to close after all floors flooded | Law Gazette

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@michaelpforan @teresamaryclark Parliamentary drafting is a specialised skill done by specialised parliamentary counsel; there’s a reason the University of London offers a special LLM just in legislative drafting.

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Infamously, ‘to be honest’ is a common verbal prefix which plays terribly in court (‘are you indicating that until now you have not been honest?’). What other common phrases are fine in normal life but dangerous when giving evidence?

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Via Reddit Heraldry: the new Letters Patent for the King use the Tudor crown in the Royal Arms!

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NEW: An info-graphic draft (lmk if there are errors) on a fun point—when is the UKSC *not* the supreme court in the UK?

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Speaking of the Lord Denning, might as well share this gem of when His Lordship decided to evade the HL’s prohibition on citing Hansard by pointing out that you could still cite textbooks which cited Hansard. No one could avoid stare decisis quite like His Lordship.

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@TheLegalSmeagol @Alexand16730477 @san_johannes @casescasescases @Vermeullarmine Did someone say stroking judicial ego?

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Testing whether R v Brown is still good law? 😜

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Today’s work surface. Any guesses what I am about?

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I didn't know until now that in WWI families were informed of casualties by fill in the blank letters...

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@WilliamQuill It’s not tradition but a constitutional mandate, but the bigger point is that the framing of it as newsworthy (when every single throne speech involves things the sovereign probably personally doesn’t agree with) is misleading and misses the point of covering the speech

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I don't quite believe it, but the judiciary has made things worse. The new header is abominable, shrinks the Royal Arms to an afterthought, and the name of the judiciary is HM Judiciary...