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Richard Moorhead

@richardmoorhead.bsky.social

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Law prof in UK, and Australia (Exeter and Monash). Empirical and conceptual work on lawyers regulation and ethics. Especially the Post Office and all who billed her. Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. Plastic Geordie. Novice cello player .. more

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Richard Moorhead is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics at the University of Exeter. He leads a team working on the British Post Office scandal and that work led to Moorhead’s appointment to the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. He is giving the 2024 Hamlyn Lectures on "Frail Professionalism: Lawyers’ ethics after the Post Office and other cases". .. more

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 25d

Spaundau Bolly

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it’s just all the boring stuff in and around very occasional funny bits that means I am giving up on it

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 1d

Hell hath no fury like Dan Neidle quoted out of context

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 1d

I. Think. Traitors. Is. Boring.

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Jean-Paul (JP) Jassy @jpjassy.bsky.social · 1d

Ninth Circuit just ended appeals from denial of anti-SLAPP motions in federal court, overturning 20+ years of precedent. From a practical standpoint, massively consequential case. From a principled standpoint, major blow to free expression. Bad.

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Prof Robert Barrington @csc-barrington.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent from @richardmoorhead.bsky.social on aggressive defamation law firm's interactions with police, SRA and others when defending a client on FBI's most wanted list. If professional ethics fail, tough regulation is the only alternative. lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/s...

SRA v Carter-Ruck, the stories begin to emerge

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has written an extended piece on Carter-Ruck criticising them for “an increasingly aggressive strategy targeting one London [Police] officer” who was investig…

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 2d

It is worth keeping an eye on the SRA v Carter-Ruck (CoinBase) case. Here are some thoughts on an early story...

SRA v Carter Ruck, the stories begin to emerge

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has written an extended piece on Carter-Ruck criticising them for “an increasingly aggressive strategy targeting one London officer” who was investigating what has been described elsewhere as a Ponzi scheme. I quote liberally here from that piece, which I am sure will be of interest to many lawyerwatch readers, to try and explain the key elements of the story.

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my. I am sorry to hear that.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

Oof. 🤡

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 5d

Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney, says the report that Deloitte prepared for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations contained “hallucinations” because of an initially undisclosed use of generative AI. Now the government is getting its money back.

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 5d

No. Same problem yesterday

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 11d

Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 12d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 11d

Morrison Foerster settles Trump related trans case. Edi investigation ongoing? www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

US law firm in London settles claim over "u-turn on helping trans man"

Morrison Foerster has agreed to pay damages to the Good Law Project and the trans man it supported in a discrimination claim against the US law firm’s London office.

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 12d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 13d

Neidle seems to say the ST story on Starmer is rather weak.

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 13d

When Keir Starmer gave a field to his parents, he used a "life interest trust". This meant that, as its value grew from £20k to £300k, it was outside their inheritance tax estate.

How did this work? And was it tax avoidance?

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 13d

Have now read the blog. ¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 13d

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 13d

You are BUSY

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 14d

Very interesting on a bunch of things including reparations

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14d

New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social

On Russia's provocations in Poland, Romania, Denmark and elsewhere.

And what NATO and the EU can do to respond.

(£/free trial)

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Russian provocations

How should NATO and the EU react?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14d

Russian provocations

How should NATO and the EU react?

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 15d

Yep. He looks classy to me.

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 15d

Keeping lawyer discipline under wraps... an issue coming into stronger focus

Behind Closed Doors

Screenshot from Tax Policy Associates. Secrecy in professional regulation is starting to become the focus of more attention. Two cases this week throw that into sharp relief. One is the story of Robin Makin, which appears to be ongoing, with practice limitations imposed already, but with an allegation of vexatious private prosecution apparently in train. The journalist, Charlie Moloney, says…

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 16d

This is good from @samfr.bsky.social on the imminent eclipse of the Tory party samf.substack.com/p/last-rites

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 16d

Troubling hairdos so far

Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 16d

What’s the hack like then?

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social · 18d

After Wellcome changed their #openaccess policy in 2021, they saw that publishers modify their workflows to detect WT funded papers and closed certain routes to publication. They also gave exceptions to "prestigious" authors while ECRs were not given the same opportunities 🤯 #OASPA2025

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 18d

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 21d

Unrelated, probably

The Onion @theonion.com · 21d

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 21d

Have googled.