Jane
@jawapu.bsky.social
Criminal Law Barrister - prosecution and defence. NE circuit.
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A cornerstone of so many offences is behaviour that falls below that expected of an ordinary person. Dishonesty is a classic example of this. Reasonable is another.
Ordinary people should therefore be the ultimate decision makers as to whether the behaviour has fallen below such a standard. /1
Ordinary people should therefore be the ultimate decision makers as to whether the behaviour has fallen below such a standard. /1
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A cornerstone of so many offences is behaviour that falls below that expected of an ordinary person. Dishonesty is a classic example of this. Reasonable is another.
Ordinary people should therefore be the ultimate decision makers as to whether the behaviour has fallen below such a standard. /1
Ordinary people should therefore be the ultimate decision makers as to whether the behaviour has fallen below such a standard. /1
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Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files
Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files
Force says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984
Police have destroyed documents relating to the Battle of Orgreave in 1984 during the miners’ strike, which is the subject of a forthcoming official inquiry.
Northumbria police disposed of the papers less than a month before Rishi Sunak called last summer’s election, which brought the Labour party into government with a longstanding manifesto pledge to hold an inquiry into the scenes of violent policing at Orgreave. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
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🔴 For *four years* officials refused to release names of all companies linked to Conservative donors and party figures put in the 'VIP' lane for bumper Covid contracts
Now a judge has ordered them to.
Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government...
Now a judge has ordered them to.
Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government...
Government loses legal battle over Covid ‘VIP Lane’
Exclusive: Judge slams “most unsatisfactory” Cabinet Office and orders release of names of 'VIP' firms to Democracy for Sale reporter - after *four year* wait.
democracyforsale.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🔴 For *four years* officials refused to release names of all companies linked to Conservative donors and party figures put in the 'VIP' lane for bumper Covid contracts
Now a judge has ordered them to.
Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government...
Now a judge has ordered them to.
Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government...
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Thank the lord for Private Eye
January 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Thank the lord for Private Eye
I echo these reviews. Value for money and first rate service.
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January 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I echo these reviews. Value for money and first rate service.
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If you are considering a CrimeLine Membership for the first time, check out what your colleagues have to say about it
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January 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
If you are considering a CrimeLine Membership for the first time, check out what your colleagues have to say about it
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We are happy to announce that we moved from X to here and our X account will be discontinued. Please do follow us and spread the word. This change will not amend our mission to share the most up-to-date and insightful scholarship on the European Convention on Human Rights!
January 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We are happy to announce that we moved from X to here and our X account will be discontinued. Please do follow us and spread the word. This change will not amend our mission to share the most up-to-date and insightful scholarship on the European Convention on Human Rights!
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Your reminder that the under-use of our courtrooms - at a time of record trial backlogs - is deliberate government policy.
It began under the last government, and continues under this one.
Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won.
It began under the last government, and continues under this one.
Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won.
📈Today, 14 January 2025, 109 out of the 516 Crown courtrooms in England & Wales will not be sitting.
That's 21% of them.
#courtstats #CS14012025 courtstats.co.uk
That's 21% of them.
#courtstats #CS14012025 courtstats.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Your reminder that the under-use of our courtrooms - at a time of record trial backlogs - is deliberate government policy.
It began under the last government, and continues under this one.
Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won.
It began under the last government, and continues under this one.
Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won.
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We have a copy of this book to give away. To be in with a chance to win, repost this message
Sentencing Principles, Procedure and Practice 2025
Winner, randomly chosen, will be announced on 17th January
Sentencing Principles, Procedure and Practice 2025
Winner, randomly chosen, will be announced on 17th January
January 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We have a copy of this book to give away. To be in with a chance to win, repost this message
Sentencing Principles, Procedure and Practice 2025
Winner, randomly chosen, will be announced on 17th January
Sentencing Principles, Procedure and Practice 2025
Winner, randomly chosen, will be announced on 17th January
This!!
As you read the newspapers and see serious people seriously suggesting we should abolish jury trial for ‘less’ serious offences please know this:
Those offences wouldn’t feel on ‘the lower end on the scale of seriousness’ if they (or you) were wrongly accused of them.
And you’d want a jury trial.
Those offences wouldn’t feel on ‘the lower end on the scale of seriousness’ if they (or you) were wrongly accused of them.
And you’d want a jury trial.
January 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This!!
@nigelslater.bsky.social Wishing you a very Merry Christmas.x
December 25, 2024 at 7:47 AM
@nigelslater.bsky.social Wishing you a very Merry Christmas.x
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More victims will see justice thanks to an extra 2,000 Crown Court sitting days announced by the Lord Chancellor today (Tuesday 17 December).
December 17, 2024 at 4:46 PM
More victims will see justice thanks to an extra 2,000 Crown Court sitting days announced by the Lord Chancellor today (Tuesday 17 December).
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December 6, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Truth bomb incoming
November 14, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Truth bomb incoming
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Breaking News: President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spread false information about vaccines and publicly contradicted the CDC’s recommendation that communities fluoridate their water, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. nyti.ms/3UREkbK
November 14, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Breaking News: President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spread false information about vaccines and publicly contradicted the CDC’s recommendation that communities fluoridate their water, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. nyti.ms/3UREkbK