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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 5h

But bloody hell his garden was cold in winter.

Thanks Bill.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 5h

Although he was decades older than me, he had a far more radical approach to law and how to assess it than I do.

He was one of our last links to a radical C20 era of reassessment of what the Victorians left us.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 5h

A lovely man Bill Twining. Oddly, I got to know him best during lockdown, and would go see him, at a distance, in his back garden overlooking the Thames

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www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/profess...

Professor William Twining: an appreciation

It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of Professor William L. Twining (aged 91) peacefully at home on 9 October 2025.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23h

God yes. There was a 15-20 year period that, for me, was magical.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23h

2 in this case

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23h

Un

All thimbs

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23h

"Giving reasons is bad..."

Imaginable that a Supreme Court in any other common law jurisdiction would do this.

What does that tell you?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 23h

British post war classical music was brilliant.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

Which is best depends unfortunately on how rich you are. If you're rich, London is still imo by far the best.

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up in Belfast during “The Troubles”. The highest number of deaths from violence was in 1972. That year the rate per million people was higher in Detroit, St Louis, Baltimore, and Washington

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

It was, you know, good. Well done.

SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

"In the mid-town area?"

She was so funny. Obviously, clever and beautiful.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

la-di-da

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

It is one of the oddities of US contract law, that the second Restatement is so much worse than the first.

Law isn't always progress, "working itself pure."

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 2d

This is ridiculous. The authors should have just said no.

SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 2d

Why are we having this AI slop forced on us?

Sweet & Maxwell have always been a fairly grubby outfit, but this is a new low.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 2d

Or this from the 14th showing the interesting image of The Peerless (amusingly we dont know which one).

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 2d

Compare the 12th edition, with A Showing at Tattersalls on the cover.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 2d

Peel (the author) makes a good (law) joke about this in his preface:

"a depiction of Salisbury Cathedral, not by Constable, as was also the case in Leaf v International Galleries."

But he must be furious.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 2d

It is ridiculous that Sweet & Maxwell insist, contrary to the author's wishes and his willingness to pay for any cost, on having an AI image on their books.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 3d

Feel guilty "plagiarising" from something I wrote 20 years ago. Feels like cheating (I have no memory of writing some of this stuff).

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 3d

They managed to get away not just with Chitty on Contracts, but Dicey, Morris and Collins on Conflicts as well.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 3d

[Law]

I don't always agree with him about everything, but this piece by Edelman J on statutory interpretation is truly excellent. You can, imo, apply it to the interpretation of any other legal words. Or indeed, words in general.

www.hcourt.gov.au/sites/defaul...

www.hcourt.gov.au

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 4d

*sighs*

open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/n...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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