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On Thursday retired social worker Trudi Warner appeared at the a High court hearing to determine whether the Solicitor General could prosecute her for contempt of court. Her alleged contempt was ...

https://barristerblogger.com/2024/04/21/i-dont-stand-with-trudi-warner/

Last week the government published the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill. It receives its second reading in the House of Commons today. Clause 1 (1) provides: “Every conviction to whic...

https://barristerblogger.com/2024/03/20/the-post-office-exonerations-bill-must-also-quash-the-convictions-of-unsuccessful-appellants/

Many family members of those killed by Valdo Calocane are extremely angry. The reasons are: 1. They cannot understand how it was that a paranoid schizophrenic was not compulsorily detained in a p...

https://barristerblogger.com/2024/01/29/calecano-horrific-though-his-crimes-were-the-cps-and-the-judge-made-the-right-decisions/

Wild rocky coves. Crashing surf. Drunken public schoolboys. There is nothing quite like Cornwall in August. And where better to base yourself than a place the drunken Etonians largely avoid: the ...

https://barristerblogger.com/2023/08/12/judges-cant-just-make-up-the-law-the-linford-decree-wont-last-long/

A group of 120 “top lawyers” have signed a “declaration of conscience” stating they will not prosecute “peaceful climate change protestors” and will “withhold services in respect o...

https://barristerblogger.com/2023/03/28/why-i-do-not-support-the-barristers-who-are-refusing-to-prosecute-eco-activists/

According to a YouGov poll nearly 60% of the population believe that the “minimum sentence of 30 years and 239 days” passed on David Carrick was too lenient. Only a contrarian 1% considered i...

https://barristerblogger.com/2023/02/09/the-attorney-general-should-not-refer-carricks-sentence-to-the-court-of-appeal/

Whilst we will not know for some time whether Mason Greenwood will resume his career with Manchester United, it is now clear that he will not be available for selection for HMP Strangeways next s...

https://barristerblogger.com/2023/02/06/the-court-of-public-opinion-will-need-no-rules-of-evidence-before-reaching-its-verdict-on-mason-greenwood/

“Antifacist activist,” Morning Star contributor, author and historian Dr Louise Raw, is raising money through a Go Fund Me campaign to see what legal action can be taken against Jeremy Clarks...

https://barristerblogger.com/2022/12/24/do-not-fund-louise-raws-crowd-funded-attempt-to-prosecute-jeremy-clarkson/

Suella Braverman was wrong to say that yesterday’s High Court ruling “thoroughly vindicates” the policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda. As the judges made clear – they often do in po...

https://barristerblogger.com/2022/12/20/the-breathtaking-insouciance-of-the-rwanda-judgment/

Archie Battersbee’s life support was withdrawn yesterday, and his mother announced that he had died at 12.15 in the afternoon. His parents have fought for his life with extraordinary determinat...

https://barristerblogger.com/2022/08/07/mr-justice-hayden-was-right-to-bring-archies-futile-treatment-to-an-end/