For the first time trials are being adjourned on the day due to RASSO counsel shortages
We are here today, dedicated to the constant improvement of our criminal advocacy skills, determined to ensure fair trials continue so justice can be done
Chair Tana Adkin KC
#FundRasso …

The CBA Most counsel are happy to provide them but they take time to prepare if done well and we should be paid for the additional work

Due to the unforeseen happening earlier this week, I can’t go but wishing all my colleagues at The CBA all the best & I will miss seeing you and the learning 💛

It’s the last 30 mins or so of this.
Professional, polite, measured, & utterly devastating cross examination by one the great Criminal silks of this era.
For law students & pupils: Edward Henry KC’s advocacy is a reflection of what he’s like too. Client/case first,not ego.

Go Ian Hislop on Have I Got News For You - calling out the delays and backlogs in courts while the Government claims they have 150 judges to deal with Rwanda cases.

Why is it so hard to find space in overhead lockers on a plane ask people carrying an oak dining table, a widescreen TV and a massive suitcase as hand luggage on their flight.

Join my new organisation. CASH. The Campaign Against Sizeable Hand-baggage.

#ActuallyAutistic people - Help please!

I'm putting together some resources for newly dx people* and I'd like to know...

What does the phrase 'Autistic Identity' mean to you?

(You don't need a dx to answer the question!)

Bar practice management & tech:
I’m going to have to re-read the BSB guidelines on AI because so many productivity/workflow/file-manager/note/mindmap etc apps use it.

Or perhaps they are behind the curve already.

We’re still here…

Funeral notice for Miss Margaret Robertson:

1100 on Thursday 2nd May at Sefton Road United Reforned Church in Morecambe.

Margaret Robertson has no family, if anyone can attend would be lovely.

She was 102, a former PMRAFNS McIndoe nurse,looking after Guinea Pig Club injured

Would encourage the reading of this thread - please note it’s from Australia but the ideas presented are universal especially about perceptions when there is an ongoing relationship.

A reminder that solicitors are officers of the court.

Our members are professionals without whom the courts could not function .

We, along with other court users , expect to be treated with respect and dignity at courts .

Our letter of complaint to HM Courts and Tribunals Service about treatment by security

lccsa.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Chuckling at Jess Phillips MP poking fun at herself about eating olives…

GUYS! GUYS!

I just used a cable from my boxes of random old cables that must not be thrown out, and saved the day.

Trying to write something for criminal practitioners and divine the relevant parts of the BSB handbook is making my head hurt as it feels as if the basic principles though obviously right & proper,don’t reflect the realities of modern criminal practice.

Tonight at a world heritage site, Stonehenge, found that someone had decided to flytip broken windows and frames. Shameful just shameful that someone would do it at all let alone there.
Wiltshire Council #WiltshireTogether
#flytipping

My face is perpetually stuck on “what fresh hell is this ?”

Legal aid practitioners just think about this ⬇️

Last year my fear for forensic science was ISO requirements, but to be honest (and I say this with a heavy heart) ISO is the least of our worries.

Everything at the moment is like moving through mud. In the World of digital it is constant disclosure issues.... 1/