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Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman. Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth• Also writes thrillers as S.J. Fleet. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · Aug 28

🎉IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!🎉

My first legal thriller, #TheCutThroatTrial!

The mutilated body of an old man is found in the street. Three teenagers nearby, caked in his blood.

Each points the finger at the others.

Each has his own story.

Available NOW in the links below 👇

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 24m

Ooooh! You cheeky cheeky monkey!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 19h

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14h

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 19h

Jenrick complains that there are immigration judges (presumably he means the part-time ones) who spend the rest of their time representing immigrants.

Wait until someone tells him about Recorders (part-time Crown Court judges) who spend the rest of their time defending the accused.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

You’d have to ask the foaming race-baiters. From his incoherent babbling, it sounds as if Honest Bob is going to decide every criminal sentencing and immigration decision himself.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

And of course, your reminder that the Conservatives in government enthusiastically approved every single one of the Sentencing Guidelines that they now claim are evidence of the far-right “two tier justice” myth.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

It’s largely academic, because @KemiBadenoch is on a Liz Truss trajectory towards the US Nutter Circuit. But that the Leader of the Opposition would spread such utter lies - adding in her ignorance by suggesting the Sentencing Council has any role in immigration - is pathetic.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 1d

“… a sort of mad McCarthyite scream of paranoia and anxiety of the sort which he has now branded himself… he is living entirely inside of his little mind…”

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social nails Robert Jenrick’s plans for “activist” judges during Sky News’ Press Preview.

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 2d

Chris Philp on R4 yesterday making 3 false statements about the ECHR and the GFA.
1. “The ECHR is mentioned only in the Multi-Party Agreement not the UK/Ireland Agreement.”. Wrong: the latter agreement requires the UK to support the former: they can’t be pulled apart like that.

George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 2d

Summary here by @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social of the so far unpublished but apparently “circulating” “legal advice” by Lord Wolfson to the Tory party. open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...

How UK could leave ECHR

Withdrawal would allow EU to end criminal law enforcement co-operation

open.substack.com

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 3d

Batshit.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 3d

Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.

E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 4d

I know, right?!

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 4d

Rabbit, by Chas & Dave.

Film: Fatal Attraction.

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 4d

question for the timeline

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful. Did you oblige?

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 4d

Incredible work.

Reminds me (on a much smaller scale) of the client who drove to court to be sentenced for a large fraud and false documents conspiracy and told me he’d only paid for 3 hours’ parking.

As he’d previously been advised, he’d have needed 3 years’.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

WOW

The Assistant US Attorney tells the judge at Diddy’s sentencing hearing that Diddy has booked speaking engagements in Miami next week.

The AUSA calls it the “height of hubris.”