EXCLUSIVE: Duty solicitor pinned down by security staff at Stratford said he ‘could not breathe’.

The Gazette speaks to the duty solicitor involved in the Stratford Magistrates Court incident - who says he does not feel safe to return.

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This is extraordinary stuff. I've been a business hack for 30 years and never seen the like

Great reporting by John Hyde on a fairly miserable day for former Cartwright King solicitor Martin Smith. CK were external solicitors handling Post Office prosecutions. lawgazette.co.uk/news/post-offi…

'Annual Thames swimming race cancelled over sewage fears.'

And that my friends is what 33 years of regulatory failure looks like.

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Where are the free speech warriors? Where are the Intellectual Dark Web folks? They spent a decade losing their minds over students renaming food in college cafeterias & now are totally fine with armed agents of the state coming on campus to assault unarmed nonviolent academics.

Help we gerrymandered the wrong demographic

Insolvency practitioners lining their pockets.

Liquidations started 0-5 years ago and not finalised, 56,363.
5-10yrs, 10,042.
10-15yrs, 8,189.
15+yrs, 20,822.

Longer duration = bigger fees. Workers, unsecured creditors milked.

Regulators do nothing.
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Compare the way the BBC and other media are covering the US campus protests with how they covered the protests in Iran and before that Venezuela (remember 'interim president' Juan Guaido?!). Remember the wall-to-wall, headline coverage? Quite a contrast.

Is it about that though? This is being announced when Labour is 25 points ahead.

The simple fact is the Labour right isn’t interested in enhancing workers rights. It’s not that complicated.

Thanks to Trades Union Congress for this compilation - people have always reckoned that others are workshy. (Tip, if you can't find enough workers, raise wages, or mechanise. There is no third option). 1/2

What a wonderfully principled person who obviously had absolutely no way of knowing what a Tory government might do to the NHS prior to this precise moment. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

It’s incredible how quickly liberals are willing to trash values they claim to uphold - freedom of speech, human rights, international law, etc - the minute these conflict with the objectives of Western hegemony and capital accumulation in the world economy.

This is remarkably sinister. Is nobody important bothered?

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

As I discovered when addressing the judge in this case, there are no open justice and/or public interest arguments which will override Legal Professional Privilege. More to come when the judgement is released. In today's Law Society Gazette magazine
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• Long division •

Seven years on, the verdict is in on the potency of gender pay gap reporting in the law.

Plus: Post Office Inquiry • SLAPPs • Bar regulation • Technology • Mother in Law - all in this week's Gazette 📰⬇️

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No it’s not a casino, it’s a London Underground train carriage. I took this photo. A child in school uniform was sitting below this gambling advert. ⁦TfL⁩ ⁦⁦Sadiq Khan when is this going to stop? ⁦Gambling Related Harm APPG⁩ ⁦Peers for Gambling Reform⁩ ⁦The BMA⁩ ⁦Coalition Against Gambling Ads⁩

These are War and Pestilence.

Death and Conquest are unavailable after fourteen years of cuts, and have been sub-contracted to SERCO who are sourcing a pair of Shetland Ponies as we speak.

We have our live blog going on Law Society Gazette following all the latest from the Post Office Inquiry. You can read it all here: lawgazette.co.uk/news/post-offi…