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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 9d

I know right. Nearly spat out my tea.

Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 9d

🥲❤️

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 9d

Oh HELLO YOU. Huge love to you, you cheeky rascal ❤️❤️❤️

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve paid my humble brag for this insufferable post. You can do the same for your humble brags here:

bsky.app/profile/sean...

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 9d

Indeed there is: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Billable Hour Appeal

Help Sean Jones raise money to support Save the Children

www.justgiving.com

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 9d

These are exceptionally generous words from my professional colleagues in the year I took time off to have and raise my baby.

Thank you, you lovely people - I adore working with you all 🥹

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Law Paw Calendar (Billable Hour) @lawpawcalendar.bsky.social · 13d

URGENT UPDATE! WE NEED YOUR HELP
Thanks to everyone who has entered, we've had some amazing pictures.
BUT we have not received enough entries!
We know social media is a mess & that you're all very busy, but we need your help.

Entries are now open until *5th October*

Law Paw Calendar (Billable Hour) @lawpawcalendar.bsky.social · Sep 5

The legal world’s favourite (/only) pet calendar is back for 2026, and looking for your entries!

Email [email protected] by 26th September to secure your pet’s place in the calendar.

A number of calendars featuring pictures of pets in legal themes

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Sep 2

It’s not me lads. ✌️

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Sep 2

I see.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Sep 2

Gromit is dead 😖

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Jul 21

Need some summer #reading inspiration? Join writer @horatioclare.bsky.social criminal defence barrister @joannahs.bsky.social & presenter @harriettsg.bsky.social to hear about the #books that have inspired them. A Good Read 3pm Mon 21 July @BBCRadio4 or @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Joanna Hardy-Susskind and Horatio Clare

Writer Horatio Clare joins barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind to discuss favourite books.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · Jul 31

Link to women's Tees: billablehour.teemill.com/product/man-...
Link to men's Tees: billablehour.teemill.com/product/man-...

But customisation is on, so you can choose your own shirt, colour. You can put the design on kid's clothing and bags. You can even buy a print of the design.

Man on the Clapham Omnibus (by @gailmyerscough) M

You can't be more reasonable than that.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · Jul 31

BIG NEWS!! The second BillableHour Summer Tee is now available with all profits going to @savechildrenUK. It is a banger from design superstar @gailmyerscough.co.uk and a must have for any lawyer (link to shop in reply). As you'd expect from a tee this reasonable, it comes in many colours. BEHOLD!!

Violet T-shirt picturing a London bus headed to CLAPHAM with a man visible through the top deck window.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · Jun 19

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Jun 8

normalise going into the softplay centre in a hazmat suit

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Jun 6

Just a little sip of water to gather everyone’s thoughts and silently scream into the abyss.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Jun 6

‘And what happened after…that?’

*winces*

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Jun 6

We are all on this voyage of discovery together, members of the jury

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Jun 6

When defendant four realises, mid-trial, that he’s toast and decides to raise the temperature a bit by dropping the cutthroat in cross-examination :

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Jun 4

I can assure you I’m not deliberately ignoring that 🫶

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Jun 4

I’ve just seen someone posting their ‘ancestral’ history to confirm they are a ‘native’ so that was completely normal and not at all weird

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Jun 4

Ha that’s so nice! Thanks. I have no idea how to do that!

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Jun 4

It gives the impression that fairly extreme anti-immigrant views are mainstream. Are they? Who knows? But the moderate politicians seek to throw them a bone. To appease. They move *towards* them and not away.

Which is dangerous if they’re real.

And monumentally stupid if they are manufactured.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Jun 4

Either way, they make the background mood music higher in pace and higher in volume. You start to acclimatise to it. A year or two ago you’d be horrified if someone felt able to say online some of the stuff these accounts say every 20 minutes.

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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · Jun 4

Maybe they are real. Maybe they follow eachother because they share these ‘interests’. Maybe they don’t have identifying features because spewing these views would get any reasonable person sacked. Maybe they are organising via lists.

But. What if they aren’t.

What if these are convincing bots.

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