Criminal Barrister at KCH Garden Square.

Joined October 2012
Glad I left home at 6.20am and -7C to beat the train strike and get to court in time to meet my client for a 10am sentence hearing - which the court has now moved to 3pm because the prison didn't bring my client to court and the court's prison video link is broken.
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Jonathan Dunne retweeted
This is what I call professionalism. I’d have collapsed ten seconds into this. xitter.cf/isitreallymoira/status…
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I publicly confirm: - I will be following No Returns. - I will never join a Public Defender Service. - I fully support and believe in @TheCriminalBar - I fully support a united campaign, working with all arms of the legal profession.
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“Officials at the Criminal Bar Association say that they “stand with criminal solicitors in the need for a substantial and accelerated injection of funds for their pay rates” @TheCriminalBar chair @JoSidhuQC in @thetimes @TimesLaw 4 square with criminal #legalaid +solicitors
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Today is probably as good a day as any to remind us of the extraordinary coincidence that the following were all born on the 23rd March. Sir Roger Bannister Sir Steve Redgrave Sir Mo Farrah Sir Chris Hoy Jason Kenny CBE
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Crocodile tears. All of these politicians - Buckland, Patel, Johnson - openly supported the defunding of criminal justice that led directly to this situation. We have begged you for *years* to fix it. You refused, cynically calculating that the public wouldn’t notice. Shameful.
"I'm sorry... we've got to do a lot better" Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says the criminal justice system was "not good enough" when it came to dealing with rape allegations bbc.in/3vAwPq6
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#MartinBashir s.16 Theft Act 1968 (1) A person who by any deception dishonestly obtains for himself or another any pecuniary advantage shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
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(2) The cases in which a pecuniary advantage within the meaning of this section is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where— … (c) he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration in an office or employment…
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Jonathan Dunne retweeted
Replying to @DrBrianMay
Twitter please help. I have a mint October 1964 AC30 which I cannot sell for the price it’s worth. So I’ve bet my wife that I can give it away to J Page, D Gilmour or J Beck. Absolutely no strings. I’d rather it was with someone who would appreciate it. Collection only. Lincs UK.
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Twitter please help. I have a mint October 1964 AC30 which I cannot sell for the price it’s worth. So I’ve bet my wife that I can give it away to J Page, D Gilmour or J Beck. Absolutely no strings. I’d rather it was with someone who would appreciate it. Collection only. Lincs UK.
When you can’t even win Orange County, it’s time to go. ocvote.com/results/current-e…
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How can you protest en masse against a Government, when you can’t get together and march on London? Asking for a nation.
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As a self-employed person who has had zero help from the government since March, I’d love someone to give me two thirds of my 2019 income. Stop moaning.
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I know nothing about Art. But went to the Ferens Gallery in Hull today. Saw this. Meredith Frampton - A Game of Patience  - 1937. Blew me away. How can you make colour like this with no brush strokes whatsoever? Photo doesn’t do it justice. Up close, no strokes at all. Amazing.
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"Pointless and purely decorative" - Judge at Maidstone gives his verdict on the Covid-19 perspex screens along counsels' rows, which are too low when standing and block off microphones.
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An oldie but a goodie. Ask any guitarist.
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Watching the UK Internal Markets Bill debate is like watching series 7 of the box set having forgotten what went on in series 1-4. Looks like they shouldn’t have killed off Theresa May in series 5.
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Jonathan Dunne retweeted
Shout out for help from foreign lawyers: Does your country have a time limit within which people held in custody have to be tried? Are your jury trials back to anything like normal? What measures have you put in place to run jury trials during COVID? Thanks in advance.
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In his latest ruling, HHJ Raynor really doesn’t pull any punches in respect of the MoJ’s wholly inadequate response to the COVID crisis. To read this from a serving judge, is really quite extraordinary. Good on him.
“In the Crown Court at Woolwich R-v- Tesfa Young-Williams T20190789 and T20200442 Ruling by HHJ Raynor dated 8th September 2020 refusing an extension of the custody time limit on Counts 4-7 of the trial indictment” [thread all words of this excoriating judgment @TheCriminalBar]
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