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Gather round, children.The Mail on Sunday is pushing some vintage #FakeLaw today, with a classic reheating of some #LegalAidLies in the ongoing war on asylum seekers. Let’s take a brief

Grimly cynical.The Attorney General - who has absolutely no experience of criminal law - is so desperate to exploit this tragic case that she is inserting herself into proceedings that

ASK. ONE. QUESTION. AT. A. TIME. JOURNALISTS. IF. YOU. DON’T. KNOW. HOW. TO. DO. THIS. I. CAN. TEACH. YOU. “Prime Minister - Keir Starmer was right, wasn’t he?”Keep your question

“Seeing justice truly done” is an interesting soundbite.Is it, as this incoherent, sub-sixth-form essay rant suggests, only about locking more people up for longer?Or does “justice truly done” mean a

There’s some odd jubilation in some quarters about the Attorney General citing the Miller judgment in her statement attempting to justify breaching international law.Unfortunately, like the statement itself, the reference

This serves as an important illustration of the danger of #FakeLaw, and how this government in particular is prepared to deploy it.A brief [THREAD]https://twitter.com/barristersecret/status/1304071480687419397 The Attorney General is a barr

There may not be many cases which justify a whole life order - that is, no prospect of parole - but Hashem Abedi, the Manchester bomber, is one.He should spend

This is a remarkably stupid letter by @AthertonNWales. Yes, lawyers are not accountable to the govt. We are independent and accountable to our regulators.Yes, our duty is to our client.

It is perhaps worth pointing out that for anybody aged 21 or over convicted of murder of a police officer or prison officer in the course of their duty, the

The clock has ticked past midnight.In pubs across the North, swathes of people are suddenly committing a criminal offence.Or possibly not.Nobody knows because there are no published regulations and the

A quick [THREAD] in response to some questions raised about this awful case. Legally, what (if anything) could follow?https://twitter.com/bbcnews/status/1288300034640031744 At the outset, it goes without saying that few of us

There has been quite a bit of coverage today about the so-called “rough sex defence”, which the government is claiming credit for abolishing.This is a difficult and sensitive subject, but

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