Jack Sheard
jpsatthebar.bsky.social
Jack Sheard
@jpsatthebar.bsky.social
Pupil barrister at 42BR with a love for housing law. Editor at @justicegap.bsky.social, contributor for @legalactiongroup.bsky.social Magazine. Often found explaining chess to my dog.
Last night, I played my first chess game for my club in ages, having gone into retirement during the bar course. They were much stronger team, but I fought hard and got an unexpected win.

Excitingly, I later discovered my opponent was a titled player! I’ve beaten a master over the board!

24. Ng3!
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I am also very happy to have a new copy of Megarry and Wade's practitioner text. My previous one was - in my dog's professional opinion - more edible than readable. It was difficult to read about easements through teeth marks - but now, at long last, she can be forgiven.
May 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
(P.S. Shortly after reading this book, I rewatched the 1970s sitcom Porridge, where habitual prisoner Fletcher truculently suffers a great many indignities on the basis of ‘paying his debt to society’. Now, he would be paying the government’s debt to Serco.)
January 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Virgin Media paid the Metropolitan Police after they obtained search warrants for their private prosecution.

Nearly 20,000 people are presently detained in profit-making prisons.

Eleven died in a fire in a Dutch detention centre run by G4S. 2 years later, they were re-awarded the contract.
January 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM