Nearly 17 years since Sir David Clementi was commissioned to recommend reforms to the 'maze' of legal profession regulation, it's time for government to take streamlining it seriously - my blog for the Law Society Gazette: lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and…

Lady chief justice heralds 'careful expansion of broadcasting hearings', to increase openness & transparency & announces judicial board to promote increased court access & reporting, chaired by media law judge Sir Matthew Nicklin - speech Society of Editors UK: judiciary.uk/keynote-speech…

The author, Robert Verkaik, told The Sunday Times that his claims were 'more on the balance of probabilities, than beyond reasonable doubt'. I'd have thought a historian would be keen to debate the evidence. I also understand that you were invited to read an advance copy.

Miranda (MJ) Carter Robert Verkaik A thread: It is perhaps a trifle disingenuous of Miranda Carter not to mention that I approached her weeks ago to see if she would like an advance copy of The Traitor of Arnhem. She said she had not the ‘inclination’

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…

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…

Client Rachel Meade in The Times and The Sunday Times today
Social worker suspended over gender critical views awarded £58,000 Catherine Baksi Shazia Khan Legal Feminist

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Watching some of Post Office inquiry - callousness & inhumanity of Post Office's treatment of innocent people is encapsulated in email below. Its first response to learning that a postmaster had walked in front of bus was to 'line up a specialist media lawyer' to deal with press.

Failing bar regulation -- the BSB pays a City law firm an undisclosed 'commercially sensitive' fee to tell it what many barristers have been telling it for years for free -- it's doing a pretty poor job - my latest column in Law Society Gazette edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader/p…

Failing bar regulation -- the BSB pays a City law firm an undisclosed 'commercially sensitive' fee to tell it what many barristers have been telling it for years for free -- it's doing a pretty poor job - my latest column in Law Society Gazette edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader/p…

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An insight in to the work that goes on at the academy ! youtu.be/s4V-Oauosew?si…

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Who's up for Compline by Candlelight Temple Church tonight at 9pm?

Lawyers have complained about 'over-zealous and heavy-handed' searches by court security staff, which one barrister likened to being assaulted - in ⁦Law Society Gazette⁩ lawgazette.co.uk/practice/solic…

Top family judge highlights 'apprehension' among judiciary about security in court, in Times Law. Sir Andrew McFarlane sys a pilot of judge wearing robes was response to “relatively high” number of incidents — including knives being confiscated at court. thetimes.co.uk/article/family…

‘I’m not going to be a bystander. Next time I will be stronger’ - protester Trudi Warner, who won her court battle with the solicitor-general, talks to Times Law thetimes.co.uk/article/im-not…

'Trust your gut instinct, listen to your client and never give up.' -- words of wisdom from Julian Ribet - Ribet Myles LLP, of Ribet Myles, Times Law's Lawyer of the Week. thetimes.co.uk/article/julian…

A judge who brings her dog to court - please let us know about others; Growing clinical negligence volumes; The Bar Council conference is back; Caste your vote for The Times and The Sunday Times Best Law Firms -- in Times Law today. thetimes.co.uk/article/a-dogs…

In The Brief from Times Law: Japes in the Inns with comedian & actor Harry ter Haar; The Law Society headed east; Degrees of contempt in the High Court. Sign up here for the latest legal news, comment & gossip: home.thetimes.co.uk/newsletters

'Nobody knows what is going on! Court staff cannot access info about cases. Case records duplicated.' - some of the findings of Transform Justice's Court Watcher research on magistrates' courts, trailed in Law Society Gazette. Full report out later this month. lawgazette.co.uk/features/crowd…