Counsel & pro bono head @Freshfields, tweeting about access to justice, modern slavery & other human/fundamental rights. Chair @AIRECentre. Personal account.
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Great to speak today alongside @richardsusskind @NatalieByrom @CEOofHMCTS Yvonne Gallagher @NAOorguk and others at a #WLPFEvents forum on court modernisation.
My topic: “the missing heart of the reform programme”.
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@BFI hi, do you know when tickets for 11 sept onwards are likely to be released? Like many others, hoping to see the odyssey! Thanks
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I’m mostly on Bluesky now along with most of my fav legaltweeters (not yet @Joanna__Hardy 🙏) but just dropped by to say GOOD MORNING from NYC
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I moved to the other place. Lots of familiar faces. @Joanna__Hardy come join us, please!
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The ‘cab rank rule’ has become a parochial distraction from the important underlying principle it purports to express.
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Paul Yates / now at bsky retweeted
Woman simply explains why Shamima Begum should not be allowed back in the UK:
Please retweet if you live in London. Does anyone know an Alice M Swan? If so and she’s missing her bag + contents - I found it and have handed it in to Holborn Police Station.
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Exciting Research!!
Last night we launched The Public Understanding of Law Survey (PULS) Vol 1 - Everyday Problems & Legal Need by Pascoe Pleasence (@UCLLaws), Hugh McDonald (@VicLawFoundn), Becky Sandefur (@SanfordSchool) & I
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Here's a mega highlights🧵
Powerful judgment out today in the case of ECPAT v Kent CC & SSHD
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov…
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And interestingly there are several references to the fact that, when Kent CC reached capacity and announced it would no longer accept newly arriving UAS children in its area, it *continued to accept other children*.
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Congratulations to our fantastic client
@ECPATUK and counsel team: Martin Westgate KC, @shushinluh , @A_C_Benfield. 10/10
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Paul Yates / now at bsky retweeted
Powerful judgment out today in the case of ECPAT v Kent CC & SSHD
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov…
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Paul Yates / now at bsky retweeted
8/8 I cannot contain my excitement. It feels like January of 2020 with a huge wave coming that no one realizes yet, but in a much better way. What a time to be alive!! Check out the original paper: arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008
