The last leadership election was like one of those ‘you choose the outcome’ books. It didn’t actually matter whether you chose Truss or Sunak for PM on p.100, because the story has Sunak by p.105 anyway.

Am I allowed to use the word hogwash asks the minister. He is.

Q: If deputy judge X made an order when she was a QC, should we still refer to the order of X QC, notwithstanding now KC?

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a [civil barrister to get through security to be allowed into the Old Bailey]”

Wide-ranging findings by IPT against MI5/Home Office in judgment on MI5’s longstanding non-compliance with safeguards for handing personal data. judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl… 1. Serious failings by MI5 in breach of its statutory obligations under RIPA and IPA from late 2014 onwards.

Just a bit of Competition Appeal Tribunal banter in paragraph 556.

“No cake was eaten, and no-one even sang “happy birthday”.”😔

Think I have a pretty good idea how this entire conversation went.

Huge if true.

Note that, on Tuesday, Allan Dorans MP (SNP) proposed that the 90-day suspension be replaced by expulsion. That proposal was defeated 4:2.

👀@thebrieftweet Ben Jaffey

A great example of how meeting a ‘policy problem’ with a ‘legal problem’ answer is no answer at all. The same is often true in reverse.

California school term starts in August. If I were up-rooting my family to move there, think I’d probably want to leave my previous job in early July.

In one of the more bizarre approaches to fundraising, Oxford law faculty has started sending Pokémon/Top Trump cards of graduate students.

A Yes Prime Minister quote for everything…

Full order:

Might Ed Sheeran’s ‘Old Phone’ be the first pop song about compliance with a court-ordered disclosure protocol?

Fascinating start to our 22nd Annual Conference today in partnership with Blackstone Chambers & Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. Reflecting the theme of Strengthening the Constitution, our speakers this morning included Mr Justice Chamberlain & Marcia Willis Stewart KC (Hon). #PLPConf25