This guy was arrested in December 2020 and now won’t be tried until 2027. Seems like a functional justice system to me.

Good time for a Hillsborough Law and an INDEPENDENT public advocate

The Supreme Court is excoriating about the Criminal Appeals process and the Court of Appeal in particular: a minithread:

This is my nephew in Gaza. He hasn’t had a proper meal in days, only a small portion of lentil soup . His small body is a witness to a massive deliberate man made starvation.

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters Published: 24 July 2025 “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. For many months, these independent journalists have been the world’s

The duty solicitor ‘crisis,’ does not merely affect solicitors, but ‘places the entire criminal justice system at risk’ - in the Law Society Gazette edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader/p…

I called on the GOV.UK to fully implement the Hillsborough Law and not to dilute the proposed duty of candour, equality of legal representation and an independent advocate. Hillsborough Law Now, UK Parliament Human Rights Committee, Shabana Mahmood MP Attorney General's Office, Andy Burnham Steve Rotheram

Pensioner, 82, convicted of not paying car tax while in hospital having toe amputated #SingleJusticeProcedure It's now been eight months since the government promised reform. Still no action Your constituent Maria Eagle MP standard.co.uk/news/crime/pen…

After Double Jeopardy - The Law and Politics Podcast kindly mentioned my post about Lucy Letby’s waiver of privilege, I’ve looked into the rationale and history of the Singh decision case, which I am not sure is the purest distillation of existing caselaw. Ken Macdonald KC Tim Owen jollycontrarian.com/index.php?titl…

Latest update to the IOPC report over Hillsborough finds Bettison guilty of gross misconduct and throws dead SYP chief constable under a bus. Another reason why we need a duty of candour open.substack.com/pub/tonyevans9…

Incredibly relevant to the times we live in

Go and spend a few hours in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division and taste the buffet of human and legal errors on offer. Then add in the jeopardy that people might die. Might be killed.

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

You know Jeremie Frimpong definitely meant that 😉

IDF says it’s killed Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif ⁦Committee to Protect Journalists⁩ and others warned of his death a few weeks ago. Entire AJ crew in Gaza City has been killed with him cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-ca…

From Anas’s pre-written final message, to be posted upon his killing. ‘May God be a witness to those who remained silent, who accepted our killing, and whose hearts were not moved by the remains of our children and women, and who did not stop the massacre of our people.’

Israel says it killed these Palestinian Al Jazeera journalists, claiming - without providing any evidence - that Al Sharif was a terrorist. Previous Israeli claims about him were rejected as unsubstantiated smears by Al Jazeera and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

I think Brexit was first.

For all Jota is commemorated, it’s almost unsaid the champions are coping with grief. No one knows how that manifests There are few comparisons in modern football. It frames the whole season, even if tough to discuss A piece on LFC, football and grief independent.co.uk/sport/football…

I wrote about Liverpool for The Observer, and how important it is that we — fans, media, everyone — treat them as humans first, rather than athlete/machines. Grief isn’t linear and it isn’t predictable and we need to try to remember that. observer.co.uk/news/sport/art…