#Legal

New: I understand there is now real concern at top of Labour Party over the number of potential legal actions over leaked AS report.There are now at least 40 potential
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Plenty right now is troubling. But legally? So far, nothing there. To actually WIN a lawsuit, you need (1) a legal claim; (2) to prove up facts with evidence; and
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This year, we will face stronger pushback from the legal, financial, and regulatory world than we've seen thus far. Crypto is going to succeed or fail together.There is no "my
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Being reminded of the battle over criminal legal aid in the last decade or more in Ch 6 of @BarristerSecret's book #FakeLaw was a tough read, not least cos it
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Victimization is a cornerstone political platform of prosecutors. It is formed by (1) lending victims a shoulder to cry on while (2) misleading victims into believing what the criminal legal
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Today the impeachment trial against former President Donald J. Trump begins in the US Senate. I don’t understand why there’s so much hatred for a president who did so much
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I like having conversations about "what lawyers actually do"...so many ppl go into #biglaw thinking they are going to be standing up in court all the time, or reading cases
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“There are several interesting questions here, but the one I will mention is 'reverse palming off." Regular "palming off" sells inferior goods under a famous trademark; it's counterfeiting and easy
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I finally read @n_hold's response to Klare. I recommend it. I particularly like his bit at the end about games and the difference between playing and changing the rules. I
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Jeff Astle died in 2002 aged 59. Coroner's verdict was ‘death by industrial disease’. He had Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). In 2003 his family wrote to FA asking for help
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1/ Perhaps the idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are illusory. Perhaps there is only politics and power. Perhaps the "legal realists" and "critical legal
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I make jokes about inclusive legal positivism, so an explainer about what it is and why it's ridiculousThread /1 Legal positivism is the view that the law is ultimately
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I have written for @timesredbox this morning about why attacking Starmer's past career is probably a mistake. Three main reasons, from our new polling...https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/why-attacking-starmer-s-legal-past-might
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We're kicking off now with our NAIDOC panel discussion to celebrate 50 years of Aboriginal community controlled legal services. We'll be tweeting some of the key comments here. Looking forward
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Disclaimer: I have no legal qualifications and this is NOT legal advice.Here is the section of the Equality Act 2010 that is relevant to the selection of candidates by political
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So much work we need to do in this area. Happy that some pockets of legal education are embracing evidence-based teaching practice (law librarians, legal writing, academic support, & clinics,
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