“The scale of PPE waste and corruption is sickening, over £10bn lost – more than four in every five pounds spent. If you’re serious about looking after public money – yours and mine – you want those billions back.” – Jo Maugham goodlaw.social/n0t

When you see - every single day - the experiences of barristers going above and beyond to prop up the justice system, blaming them for prison overcrowding is just insulting.

Last weeks headline V this week’s headline. It’s almost like water privatisation and profiteering combined with zero accountability hasn’t really worked.

I wonder what the Home Office will say when they realise a large number of those sleeping on the streets are ex-servicemen and women, often with PTSD. Might be a tougher culture war than usual.

Tories have been in power 13yrs Rough sleeping is up 75% (Labour cut it by 75%) Homelessness up, housing in crisis Support & addiction services cut Neighbourhood policing cut And Suella Braverman thinks the answer is to pick a fight over tents…..

Here's another for you Suella Braverman MP. 18 year old boy from Enfield. His Mum dies and he has no family. He ends up homeless living in a shed. He gets my contact details and I help him. I put him in the Travelodge on the A10 for 2 weeks until I can find him a room in a housing

Yes these are far right nationalist thugs literally storming the Cenotaph on Armistice Day. Suella Braverman whipped up this frenzy. I call on her to resign, immediately. Please RT if you do too.

CBA vice-chair Mary Prior KC highlighted the ever-changing nature of RASSO work. ‘There is no area of criminal law which develops as quickly,' she said. 'A combination of changes in governmental approach to offences and sentencing, combined with developments in case law requires

“It’s not a question of harsher sentencing, or softer sentencing, that’s a sterile question Madam deputy Speaker, what we really ought to be talking about is smarter sentencing…” Sir Bob Neill KC (Hon), chair Justice Committee, to UK House of Commons on the Sentencing Bill and #rehabilitation

Unless this is sufficiently widely disseminated via social media, it will never gain traction. Few, if any, mainstream papers or news outlets will touch the subject.

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Seven people arrested during a demonstration at a UAV Tactical Systems site in Leicester had their cases dismissed on Friday following a successful submission of ‘no case to answer’ from GCN’s Mira Hammad & Alexander McColl. Read more: gcnchambers.co.uk/uav-tactical-s…

CBA chair Ms Adkin KC called the 24/7 idea "almost laughable" due to "decades and decades of underfunding" in the criminal justice system. Sky News “But is prioritising protest cases the right way to go when the problem in court backlogs is so much wider? Prominent KC and chair

#IWD in Counsel Magazine If we fail to nurture women’s collective talent, half the population of this country will not be properly represented – from the junior Criminal Bar right up to the senior Judiciary. We cannot let all the hard work be undone, says Tana Adkin KC on

Representation without identification. Fair trials. Justice. Criminal barristers provide independent legal expertise in the courts of England and Wales and pride themselves on that independence. Any criminal barrister that also brings their own personal or political views into

Reminder today that Yaxley again crowd-funded his “defence fund“, then pleaded guilty. So that cash? Yeah, that’s his now. This is what he does for a living.

Ultimately, it’s always the customers who pay the fines.