Barrister specialising in trusts and inheritance (New Square Chambers), baritone, editor of legal textbooks, Pic (c) samgibsonphotography
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Alexander Learmonth KC retweeted
🎙️ New Talking Family Law episode! We’re marking 50 years of the Inheritance (Provision for Family & Dependants) Act 1975 with @EmilyRoskilly & @alearmonth, covering s1 claimants, s2 powers, reasonable provision & cohabitees.
🎧 Listen buff.ly/05KscV1
Alexander Learmonth KC retweeted
We shouldn’t trivialise and stigmatise mental health diagnoses. It’s enough to just say that Trump is just a terrible person.
Alexander Learmonth KC retweeted
Was it for this that the US spent 80 years building power and alliances? Not to be a force for good. But instead to impoverish neighbours, threaten those it protected, rob minerals from war-torn countries, and break its promises to 100s of millions of the poorest in the world? 🧵
Alexander Learmonth KC retweeted
This February, our Contentious Probate 2025 conference is taking place at @CalClubLondon.
A pertinent and ongoing issue that many legal professionals encounter several times throughout their career.
Chaired by STEP’s ‘Advocate of the Year’ @alearmonth ⬇️
I’m leaving X now. Musk is either evil or insane and either way he’s dangerous. You can find me on LinkedIn if you’re a colleague or on Facebook if you know me socially. (Very tempted to leave Facebook too, mind.)
It’s just occurred to me. Why has it only just occurred to me?! Elon Musk is going to run the US now and for the foreseeable future.
#Trump: “You’re not gonna post that are you? I didn’t have my hair on.”
Musk: “Of course not.”
Musk: …
I've #justsponsored sam nicholls, who's fundraising for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity on @JustGiving. Donate now justgiving.com/page/sam-nich…
I would not have watched this anyway.
While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow, by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team. That obviously means it’s not right for the interview to go ahead. It’s very frustrating, and there’s no point pretending it’s anything other than embarrassing and disappointing, as there are plenty of important questions to be asked. But red faces aside, honesty is the best policy. See you on Sunday.
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Dangerous man
CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election. It was a Disgrace to our Nation! Therefore, the 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again. We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T! Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.
The Grenfell Report Phase 2 is almost 1700 pages long but there is an excellent and readable summary at the start of volume 1, pages 9-32 here: assets.publishing.service.go….
So many things going wrong, all ultimately about government and regulators pandering to private interests.
Blair is right of course. We don’t just elect people to do what we’ve already decided should be done. Ina representative democracy, we (should) elect them to make better decisions on our behalf, devoting their energy, time, experience, and political judgment to that task.
My mate Alastair Brookshaw: "It's Hard To Speak My Heart" from Parade youtu.be/F4IYaK2iYZY?si=hvm7… via @YouTube worth a watch!!
Two tier justice? Cutting through the online myths – The Secret Barrister thesecretbarrister.com/2024/…
Alexander Learmonth KC retweeted
Yesterday the @Telegraph published a comment piece by Viscount Matt Ridley about renewable energy, littered with misleading claims.
What to make of it? 🧵
Alexander Learmonth KC retweeted
It wasn't just that they failed it was that they *deliberately chose* not to process claims on the absurd basis that 100k people could be sent to Rwanda.
A decision cheered on by many of those now complaining about the number of asylum seekers in hotels.
