tragic reality that the ordinary morning walk to work or school can be sliced apart by a knife attack anywhere in Britain

just as #r4today aired a package on knife crime 1h36m45f of sentencing for a Somerset knife murder

Our police pick up broken lives

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

April cowslip to the train - always reminds me of A levels and finals ..

“her complaint about the “pretty woman” remark was upheld. The judge said the comment “would not have been said to a man, or an equivalent comment made about a male colleague’s physical attractiveness as a reason for being invited to a work meeting”.”

thetimes.co.uk/article/ea231b…

Couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery, sources

Home Office has until now relied on incentive of free accommodation and a £49 weekly allowance to prevent people from absconding, but officials fear that the threat of deportation would outweigh that.

thetimes.co.uk/article/14561d…

Sunset chasing

CBA Wellbeing
 
We announced on Saturday at the Conference the roll-out of the CBA Wellbeing Protocol. 

criminalbar.com/wellbeing/cba-…

criminalbar.com/wellbeing/cba-…

The CBA Judicial Liaison and Wellbeing Committee have invited chambers on the London and South Eastern Circuit to join…

1985 interview with a defected KGB agent from USSR⬇️
Putin was then KGB in Berlin, today Russian president

Resurfaced autumn 2023 immediately post October 7 when distortion of reality of Hamas attacks was spread, often by “progressive left” to deny & at same time justify rape

𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗕 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧.

#YourSaracens 💫

Social worker Rachel Meade awarded £58,000 after suspended over gender critical views, which judge said were legitimate exercise of free speech & recommended training for council & regulator.
Shazia Khan Cole Khan Solicitors LLP hails 'unprecented' - in The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.co.uk/article/c18e91…

The sun - late arrival platform 1,
732am delayed a month

It’s that time of year

Wisteria watch. Here’s a couple of bloomin’ beauties!

Best time to go for a London walk anywhere north of Camden today

#Arsenal #Spurs

Boom! Surprise no longer ….

Anyone an asylum seeker?

Time for a longer hide and seek

#Rwanda - a £500m game for the
UK taxpayer family.

nao.org.uk/press-releases….

This is absolutely right. Training and considering how to approach witnesses will make all your advocacy better. We should always ask the right questions. It’s hard, but this kind of thought into questioning really helps. The CBA #fundRASSO

75%

That’s the “rate of conviction” for all rape charges brought before a jury

For allegations involving complainant:
Female child under 13
84%
Female under 16
80%
Female under 16 (historic)
78%
Female 16 years or over
67%
Male 16 years or over
63%
Female 16 or over…

Tom Lehrer back in Highgate …

Poisoning pigeons in the park

What more do you want on a Saturday?

Excellent company

Excellent education

(Excellent mugs+ pens!)

Oh and excellent counsel

In RASSO and all crimes+misdemeanours

Why The CBA
Spring conference

Thanks to excellent Tana Adkin KC Mary Prior KC James Oliveira-Agnew Aaron Dolan

Only in Britain - polite request over the tannoy at Blackfriars London Underground for passengers not to shake off umbrellas inside the station rather outside the station. To prevent slips

will go down well with people getting soaked by umbrella shakers, trying to get inside