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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 2d

And with that unusual image firmly implanted in the mind, I wish you a chag sameach as we prepare to eat in the crisp fresh air of a British autumn, shake some plants and smell a lemon costing 100 times more than your standard Tesco version!

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 2d

When this came up as a notification I thought (given our earlier discussion) you were referring to Fordham J!

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 3d

Though most are less impressed when you cite appellate judgments in which they are overturned... (Except HHJ Cotran, at the old Clerkenwell CC (or was it Shoreditch?) who gleamed when I raised a case where the Court of Appeal had torn him to shreds).

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 3d

I recall sitting in the back of the Court of Appeal as a bar school student and Laws LJ citing to you a section from De Smith, Woolf and Jowell on Judicial Review as Lord Woolf grinned widely.

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 3d

It was always top of the box whenever I attended hearings with him. Not sure we ever had a hearing in my 3 months where he didn’t refer to it mid-submissions!

Though the greatest thing about Mike Fordham was his wall of colour-coded folders of cases in alphabetical order!

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 3d

I used to love Fordham’s book back in 3rd edition days for how supremely organised it was and how helpful it was as an opening gambit for researching a point as his pupil and finding a killer quote to try to impress him. I think (rather sadly) I might have a signed copy somewhere!

Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 3d

“Sorry to be pedantic” but given the disjunctive etc etc (accompanied with a classic lawsplaining suggestion to read Bennion)

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 3d

Looking at FN2, I wonder which lawyers contributed but were too shy to be given credit for their contribution.

Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 4d

As an Essex boy merely in my late 40s who saw Tony Hadley and his band perform it live at a birthday party last year, I know where you’re coming from.

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 4d

I see a duck hiding under those drawers.

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 4d

This is abhorrent. And whilst the Tories will never form the next government, it's scary that this inhumanity is what their polling gurus think the British electorate want as a choice at the next election, & what many will seemingly vote Reform to fulfil. I despair.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan

The party unveils new policies on illegal migration as its annual conference begins in Manchester.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 4d

Didn't Boris get rid of all the Tories who would have defected to the Lib Dems in response to the floating of such abhorrent policies?

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 4d

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 4d

He seems to have lost his hat.

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 5d

And best of all, Kitty.

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 6d

Ours is being spayed this morning and will have to wear a cone for the next 10 days. I'm trepidatious about how she will feel about us when we pick her up later!

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 6d

I wish it was a surprise, but then I remember that the PSC put in an application for permission to hold a protest march before lunchtime on 7 October 2023, whilst the murders we’re in the middle of taking place.

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 6d

I’d just finished taking a service for 25 6-year-olds when I was told. I don’t think I even paused emotionally when told, because it’s just something we expect. That’s among the most awful realisations of all.

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 6d

There must be a pun here. Even a little pun. A punnet if you will.

Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 6d

✅ Labour HOLD

Strawberry (Cheshire West and Chester) council by-election result:

LAB: 35.8% (-32.9)
REF: 32.0% (+32.0)
IND: 13.7% (+13.7)
CON: 7.8% (-16.8)
LDEM: 7.2% (+0.5)
GRN: 3.4% (+3.4)

+/- 2023

Estimated turnout: ~41% (+7)

andrewteale.me.uk/previews

Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack

"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

andrewteale.me.uk

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 6d

It's a great consolation. There are thankfully far, far more decent people who recoil at this sort of horror than those who (whether in respect of antisemitism or a whole host of other issues) glory in the hatred of others.

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 6d

I also wish that I could take my kids to school without security fences, security guards, invacuation and evacuation drills, police visits, etc.

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 6d

Every year I fear that when I turn my phone on after Yom Kippur I'll learn of a terrorist attack on some part of our community. Every year I breathe a sigh of relief to learn nothing happened. I know many others who do the same. This year we are empty, we are silent and we are mourning our loss.

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 7d

@adamcreme.bsky.social @dinahrose.bsky.social, rev up your engines. Tribunal fees may be back on the agenda...

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Labour considering charging workers for employment tribunal claims, sources say

Exclusive: Reintroducing tribunal fees would be ‘a gift for bad bosses’, says TUC chief Paul Nowak

www.theguardian.com

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 7d

Wishing a g'mar chatima tovah and well over the fast to all those who aren't eating, drinking, wearing leather shoes, washing past their 2nd knuckle and the like for 25 hours from this evening.

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Jason Braier @jasonbraier.bsky.social · 9d

I think you mean “5’6”” (ps It is a great book. The best I’ve read on showing the reader the real rhythms of a trial. Disappointing lack of gavel action though)

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