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Bar & Bench

barandbench

Delhi High Court begins hearing petitions concerning Delhi Riots. Cases listed for hearing before Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan. #DelhiRiots @harsh_mander Court starts taking stock

Chris Harper

CPHarper

The problems with "the courts are COVID secure" as an argument, a thread... @TheCriminalBar 1. It's nonsense. Try having a conference in the tiny, airless rooms in the custody suites.

Noga Tarnopolsky

NTarnopolsky

Short thread on Health Minister @YuliEdelstein. In 2018, he declared (without irony) that “Israel was created by & for Benjamin Netanyahu, & as a homeland for the Netanyahuan people.”https://twitter.com/NTarnopolsky/status/10464

southpaw

nycsouthpaw

The DC USAO announces charges against John Sullivan. Sullivan recorded Ashli Babbitt’s shooting and shared the footage with WaPo; the video’s soundtrack puts Sullivan in the Capitol trying to talk

Lawyers for Choice

Lawyers4Choice

We are exceedingly concerned by this week's ruling of the High Court in the case of Bell v Tavistock. We deplore the immediate harm it will cause to hundreds of

Tom Wainwright

wainwright_tom

List of places which we (in London) should start using for criminal trials to get the backlog down.1. The Globe. Will appeal to drama queen barristers (i.e. all barristers) 2.

Caroline Mandell

cjmandell

5 tips for virtual oral argument, now that I've watched some Zoom appeals: 1. Stand, don't sit. The neuroscience shows we literally think better on our feet, and it's the

Jiraiya

SarkySage

Thread -My take on the Margaret Court thing:It’s not about “freedom of speech”. Never was. If she said black people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because it said that in

Brad Heath

bradheath

A judge tossed the Arizona "Kraken" suit. "Allegations that find favor in the public sphere of gossip and innuendo cannot be a substitute for earnest pleadings and procedure in federal

Jonathan Turley

JonathanTurley

It only took a presidential pardon but Judge Sullivan has finally dismissed the Flynn case. https://in.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-russia-flynn/judge-leaned-against-dismissing-flynn-case-prior-to-trump-pardon-opinion-idUKKBN28I2VP However

The Secret Barrister

BarristerSecret

Thoroughly depressing to see Labour buy into the government myth that uprooting our criminal justice system is the way to deal with the trial backlog.Properly funding the criminal justice system

💧liblawlib🦉

gld301218

#DysonHeydon My letter to Saturday Paper 3 Sept 2015 Dyson Heydon says he does not have a computer and that his personal assistant prints out his emails for him to

Owen

tennisnation

A thread on the value of changing direction in rallies:Crosscourt shots are more common than down-the-line shots because the net is lower in the middle. But crosscourt rallies can coax

SpinningHugo

SpinningHugo

Bell v Tavistock. The subtantive reasoning. A quick summary and reflection.If you read from [126]-[153] you have the lw summarised (accurately) and the court's reasoning./1https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Bell-v-Tavis

Sam Feldman 🌹

srfeld

Judges have some non-obvious incentives for avoiding fights with prosecutors. In some jurisdictions, like CA & OR, one of them is the practice of "papering," or automatically disqualifying a judge

IRAN HRM

IranHrm

#Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of Amirhossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi & Saeed Tamjidi for participating in the November 2019 #Iranprotestshttps://iran-hrm.com/index.php/2020/06/24/supreme-court-upholds-death-se

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