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Nick Johnson KC
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Barrister with financial crime specialism. Exchange Chambers. NEC Silk Rep on Bar Council. Roots in London and Kent, home in Yorkshire.
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RIP Roy Ayers. Picture from 2014 after the best night at Ronnie Scott’s ever.
March 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Enjoying Vaujany with great snow!
January 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Important intervention from senior lawyers in support of the #AssistedDying bill 👏

Including
- The Rt Hon. The Lord Etherton GBE KC (former Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice)
- Lord Falconer PC KC (former Lord Chancellor)
- Lord Ken Macdonald KC & Sir Max Hill KC (former DPPs)
“We write in support of the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill 2024. Our current law does not serve to safeguard the sanctity of life. By criminalising assisted suicide, it can cause people to end their lives before they require help to do so. Our law does not protect weak and vulnerable people: it requires people to take decisions about their end of life out of sight, alone and without the help of professionals. It encourages dangerous and traumatic attempts at suicide and denies many people dignity and autonomy in how they live out their final months of life. The bill will protect the vulnerable and the sanctity of life much more effectively than our current law. It will allow terminally ill people in the last six months of their life to make free, informed and settled decisions about their end of life through a robust process involving two doctors and a judge. The bill will strengthen the role of the criminal law: assisting suicide will remain an offence other than where assistance is offered through the new formal process. New offences will also be created. There is no reason to suppose litigation will broaden the ambit of the bill: every decision of the European court of human rights and of our domestic courts has said that this is an area which is a matter for parliament in which courts will not interfere. It is time for the sake of the vulnerable, for the sake of safeguarding the primacy of human life, and for the sake of constitutional good order that the law is reformed, and that decisions about end of life are brought out of the shadows.” Screenshot from this letters page, also includes names of signatories for which I have run out of character space in this alt text - apologies (https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/theobserver/2024/nov/24/the-assisted-dying-bill-safeguards-are-essential-to-prevent-suicide)
November 24, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Reflecting on this impressive, principled advocacy

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Sen. Kamala Harris to Christine Blasey Ford: 'You are not on trial'
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November 8, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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So thankful to my clients for their continued support - Legal 500 UK Bar rankings 2025
October 2, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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September 26, 2024 at 9:47 PM