Barbara Rich
@barbararich.bsky.social
Barrister, mediator (England + Wales) https://www.5sblaw.com/our-people/barbara-rich/ law of inheritance, trusts, mental incapacity + interested in legal history, public understanding of law, crowdfunding. Londoner. https://bleakhouserevisited.substack.com
Worse than ridiculous. This conspiracist obsession with Fabians is rooted in his attack on the impartiality of the Court of Appeal judge who presided over the Bell Hotel ruling. Barrett is not neutral here, but has been involved in urging councils to seek these injunctions to close asylum hotels
September 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Worse than ridiculous. This conspiracist obsession with Fabians is rooted in his attack on the impartiality of the Court of Appeal judge who presided over the Bell Hotel ruling. Barrett is not neutral here, but has been involved in urging councils to seek these injunctions to close asylum hotels
I imagine you must have seen “advice from a random stranger on social mores” before?
September 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I imagine you must have seen “advice from a random stranger on social mores” before?
The GLP had just won a case about publishing PPE procurement contract details on a website in good time. Exactly the sort of thing that would prompt passers-by to repeatedly offer their congratulations to our hero
September 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The GLP had just won a case about publishing PPE procurement contract details on a website in good time. Exactly the sort of thing that would prompt passers-by to repeatedly offer their congratulations to our hero
It just doesn’t have quite the vainglorious improbability of that London park scene. I mean, I’ve spent hours of my life walking in London parks. Have I ever seen anything like the image it conjures up? No
September 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It just doesn’t have quite the vainglorious improbability of that London park scene. I mean, I’ve spent hours of my life walking in London parks. Have I ever seen anything like the image it conjures up? No
Honestly, the platitudes which have flowed from this are as rapidly and completely numbing to the mind as dental anaesthetic is to the jaw
September 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Honestly, the platitudes which have flowed from this are as rapidly and completely numbing to the mind as dental anaesthetic is to the jaw
One for the Little Book of Maugham. This is one of my perennial favourites
September 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
One for the Little Book of Maugham. This is one of my perennial favourites
His organisation has raised £££ millions over the years to pay lawyers to argue cases it supports in the Royal Courts of Justice. But he thinks this graffiti on the walls of that same historic listed building shouldn’t have been removed (as its artist no doubt expected it to be)
September 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
His organisation has raised £££ millions over the years to pay lawyers to argue cases it supports in the Royal Courts of Justice. But he thinks this graffiti on the walls of that same historic listed building shouldn’t have been removed (as its artist no doubt expected it to be)
Of course he does. This is performance for his audience. The tragic pettiness and petulance of it, though
September 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Of course he does. This is performance for his audience. The tragic pettiness and petulance of it, though
Or they could have left Dame Karen Pierce in post
September 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Or they could have left Dame Karen Pierce in post
I wondered if you were being serious or sarcastic for a moment!
September 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I wondered if you were being serious or sarcastic for a moment!
That lost world. I had a friend, now sadly dead, who went to work as a solicitor at an old-fashioned firm in a small town in Herefordshire. Visiting in the early years of this century I was shown the senior partner’s desk standing on its linoleum floor exactly as it had done since the 1940s
September 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
That lost world. I had a friend, now sadly dead, who went to work as a solicitor at an old-fashioned firm in a small town in Herefordshire. Visiting in the early years of this century I was shown the senior partner’s desk standing on its linoleum floor exactly as it had done since the 1940s
I’m afraid not. Another feature of that semi-digital era was that large offices had a post room and messengers who delivered letters within and outside the building, and iirc it was mostly the post room messengers who enjoyed this form of lunchtime entertainment
September 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’m afraid not. Another feature of that semi-digital era was that large offices had a post room and messengers who delivered letters within and outside the building, and iirc it was mostly the post room messengers who enjoyed this form of lunchtime entertainment
Enjoyable read. I’m so old that I can remember working just outside the City in Aldgate in the mid 1980s, in offices now either converted or demolished into apartments. It was the frontier of the expanding City and the old East End, where the local pubs still advertised strippers at lunchtime
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Enjoyable read. I’m so old that I can remember working just outside the City in Aldgate in the mid 1980s, in offices now either converted or demolished into apartments. It was the frontier of the expanding City and the old East End, where the local pubs still advertised strippers at lunchtime
It’s the latest instalment of a fairly long history where this offender is concerned
September 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It’s the latest instalment of a fairly long history where this offender is concerned
At the very least there should be a code of conduct obligation on all Parliamentarians and their staff to delete and correct social media posts which are straight up misrepresentations like this
September 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
At the very least there should be a code of conduct obligation on all Parliamentarians and their staff to delete and correct social media posts which are straight up misrepresentations like this
Some people who are aligned with or sympathetic to Jenrick’s “Lawyers for Borders” movement think it would be better if judges were appointed by the Lord Chancellor as they were before 2006. Would you trust this man as Lord Chancellor making those decisions?
September 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Some people who are aligned with or sympathetic to Jenrick’s “Lawyers for Borders” movement think it would be better if judges were appointed by the Lord Chancellor as they were before 2006. Would you trust this man as Lord Chancellor making those decisions?
Jenrick’s post on X has now been community noted but has not been corrected or deleted. As in this story about another of his social media posts and a court case, he appears to have put political ambitions ahead of the interests of justice www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Justice secretary suggests Jenrick risked collapse of murder trial with tweet
Judge said shadow justice secretary’s comments during trial of Elias Morgan were ‘ill thought through’
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Jenrick’s post on X has now been community noted but has not been corrected or deleted. As in this story about another of his social media posts and a court case, he appears to have put political ambitions ahead of the interests of justice www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Perhaps not with those shoes, though
September 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Perhaps not with those shoes, though
Not even Kim Jong Un would wear those sunglasses
September 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Not even Kim Jong Un would wear those sunglasses
She is the niece of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
September 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
She is the niece of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Compulsive serial offender and a deeply vicious and malicious individual
September 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Compulsive serial offender and a deeply vicious and malicious individual
This trial exposed the use of aliases, all connected with The View, that I first came across in 2021
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This trial exposed the use of aliases, all connected with The View, that I first came across in 2021
Oh yes. I have no doubt. And will never have anything to do with a CIC unless I know the people behind it or can see its work at first hand
September 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Oh yes. I have no doubt. And will never have anything to do with a CIC unless I know the people behind it or can see its work at first hand
Be extremely sceptical of anything from that source or its associated magazine or podcast. I have been vilified by it for exposing her use of it for laundering her reputation and engaging
September 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Be extremely sceptical of anything from that source or its associated magazine or podcast. I have been vilified by it for exposing her use of it for laundering her reputation and engaging
And some more - IPSO complaint against Times article in August 2021 under headline “Fraudster Farah Damji linked to justice campaign” dismissed
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0954...
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0954...
09546-21 Damji v The Times - IPSO
Farah Damji complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that The Times breached Clause 1 (Accuracy), Clause 2 (Privacy), Clause 3 (Harassment) and Clause 12 (Discrimination) of the Edit...
www.ipso.co.uk
September 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
And some more - IPSO complaint against Times article in August 2021 under headline “Fraudster Farah Damji linked to justice campaign” dismissed
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0954...
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0954...