Eight years ago today we lost this talented and beautiful bastard. He brought so much joy to so many. Please give Rik a Retweet if you miss him 💔❤️‍🩹💔❤️‍🩹💔 #RikMayall #RikMayallDay

It is not “left wing” to ensure that legal representation is available to those who need it. It is not “left wing” for judges to ensure that politicians act within the laws that Parliament enacts. And it’s a pretty humiliating self-own for the “right” to think otherwise.

Today, Adam David Dawson hosted a mental health charity breakfast in Chambers this morning. Delighted to have welcomed as a guest of honour Lord Pannick QC. Jami #MentalHealthAwareness #Charity

Suella Braverman wanting to be PM proves that stupid people really are too stupid to understand how stupid they are.

Johnson currently trying to decide which family to spend more time with.

The Secret Barrister 🦋 Oh mate 🥹

What is it with Tories and Arable fields?

By all means, let’s talk about who has held justice to ransom over the past twelve years. Bring it on, Dominic Raab A public debate between you and the Chair of the The CBA. With fact checkers. Let’s put our arguments before the public. Are you in? Or are you scared?

The National Trust are giving away free family passes this week 🍃 These can be used up until 30th November. They allow up to 2 adults and 4 children free entry to one of their sites this autumn. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 nationaltrust-tickets.org.uk/category/33142…

We are excited to share that we are now Deka Chambers. The merger between 9 Gough Chambers and 1 Chancery Lane has completed, launching our new leading common law Set of 110 barristers including 14 Silks. To find out more about our new set, visit dekachambers.com

@RichardMoorhead The £600,000 costs are the sting. Given that fake injury claimants go straight to prison as do experts who produce dishonest reports, i am staggered that he didn’t get 6 months.

Interesting decision on OR today. Pt 36 offer made in SIIIA case, claim months later allocated to M/T. Offer accepted 9 months later. Court awarded open costs even though was fixed costs on expiry of Pt 36. With thanks to pjm1kbw for a top tip which helped enormously. 🥳

🕯️🕯️🕯️ My latest cartoon for tomorrow's The Telegraph Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to receive my unseen cartoons: telegraph.co.uk/premium/matt/?…

Stuart McKechnie KC analyses in his latest article the recent quantum decision in Riley v. Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust [2022] EWHC 2417 (KB) involving amputation injuries. Click the link to learn more. #personalinjury #catastrophicinjury dekachambers.com/2022/10/14/amp…

St Pancras just now. Almost missed my train. Watch to the end for a nice surprise

I keep thinking about this Matthew Parris column from August 20.

School nativity play: Shepherds' strike: 16-20 Dec Wise Men's strike: 15 Dec Inn Keeper's strike: 6,7,10 Dec My latest cartoon for tomorrow's The Telegraph Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to receive my unseen cartoons: telegraph.co.uk/premium/matt/?…

Prisons are a disgrace but no one will say so thetimes.co.uk/article/prison…