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Criminal barrister plying his filthy trade in the dark Northlands

Joined September 2023
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Opinions can not be taken to be my own unless all of the following are proved not to apply: (1) I have misread or misunderstood something, (2) I am quoting an obviously ludicrous opinion for comic effect, (3) I have had a tough week, and I want a fight, or (4) I am drunk.
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I wonder what Keith Blakelock had been assigned to do the noght he was murdered. Short memories it seems….
Firefighters reportedly attended an automatic fire alarm at the Radcliffe Camera library in Oxford this morning. During previous demonstrations, police have asked firefighters to help remove protesters. Firefighting is a humanitarian role. The FBU advises members not to assist with law enforcement activities.
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I've been quiet on here because my life has been turned upside down. My daughter Zoe is in prison 💔 She's being treated like a terrorist for taking action against an Israeli arms firm Read the petition or this 🧵 1/ Bit.ly/Filton10Petition
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Zoe Rogers is accused of participating in a violent raid which left police and employees suffering injuries having been attacked with a sledgehammer. Although “aggravated burglary” is the charge it was politically motivated, hence the suggestion it constitutes terrorism. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Your periodic reminder that armed police officers almost never fire their weapons on duty. Last year (2023/24) there were 17,589 firearms operations in England and Wales, in only 2 of which were shots fired at people. gov.uk/government/statistics…
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Clarkson or Starmer?
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3 votes • Final results
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Yup.
What you are witnessing in Britain today is the direct result of failed policies that have been imposed on the country for much of the last 30 years. Mass, uncontrolled immigration. The refusal to do what needs to be done to regain control of our borders. The failure to integrate newcomers. The refusal to counter radical Islamism and even recognise the very obvious failings of multiculturalism. The continued promises to lower mass immigration only to then lie to the British people by doing the opposite. And the growing tendency among the radicalising "liberal" left -as we see again this weekend- to try and silence and stigmatise all those who have been pointing to these very obvious causes as "racists", "xenophobes", and "grifters". My view is this. If you are idiotic enough to break the law then you should be arrested. And if you are stupid enough to use violence against police officers and emergency workers then you should face the full force of the law. Much like those antisemitic, pro-Hamas, Black Lives Matter protestors and Islamist sympathisers should have faced consequences when they too broke the law. But what is also crystal clear is that these protests are just the tip of the iceberg. What lies beneath are millions of decent, hardworking, patriotic British people who have simply had enough of these disastrous policies, of being told they are "racist" or "far right" for wanting to change course, and who are routinely shut out of the national conversation. They are sick of an elite class that after watching British children be blown apart at pop concerts, murdered at dance classes, and sexually assaulted by Muslim gangs on an industrial scale continues to gaslight them by saying what this is really about is "social media", "misinformation", "disinformation", and "right-wing grifters coordinating riots from their holidays". As I say below --and no, I won't delete it--a serious response to these events begins with acknowledging that the status-quo is completely broken. No community in history has pursued this level of mass immigration and demographic change while having no integration strategy and come out on the other side as a healthy, vibrant, strong, high-trust, prosperous society. So what do we need to do? We need to end the policy of mass immigration. We need a freeze on all non-essential migration so that we at least stand a chance of absorbing and managing the record migration of the last quarter-century. We need to leave the ECHR, reform the Human Rights Act, and do whatever we can to regain control of our own borders. A country that cannot even control who is coming in and out is not a serious country. We need a new debate and policy on immigration in this country which, in my view, has now become far too dependent on people from outside Europe, who neither share our values nor way of life. We need to protect and promote free speech, free expression and free assembly so that people feel they have a voice, not rush to shut it down because the ruling class no longer understands what is happening. And we need, in short, to be doing the very opposite of what the current Labour government is doing, and what the previous Conservative governments accelerated. And we need to start doing it now. mattgoodwin.org
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I am a Grade 4 RASSO prosecutor, meaning that I prosecute the most serious sexual offences, including rape and child abuse in all its hideous variety. My diary is now full with back-to-back trials for the next 12 months. This is unsustainable. @BarristerSecret
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I am finding that I am now increasingly opposing defence counsel who just don't have the experience to do this difficult work. 5 years at the Bar is nowhere near enough to defend in a rape trial.
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I am seriously wondering what could possibly be criticised in this cross-examination: putting the Crown's case and giving the defendant the opportunity to respond.
oh MY GOD??? how was this allowed? in what totally insane crazy psychodrama is this line of questioning admissible in a real court of law?
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The notes to Rule 25.11 of the Criminal Procedure Rules explain that leading questions are only prohibited for examination in chief, not cross-examination, which this is. legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/759/…
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The genius touch! Well-buttered bread, hot fish fingers, cheddar, ketchup.
Cheese in a fish finger butty?
32%Yes
68%No
2,115 votes • Final results
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These figures demonstrate that with the Crown Courts firing on all cylinders, with all advocates overwhelmed with work and with not an ounce of slack in the system, we are still going backwards. That’s what happens when you defund an entity over decades.
#justice 30/9/23 23 year high crown court case backlog 66,547 🆙102% from record low 31/12/18 of 32,899 Rape case backlog record high 2,591 🆙 356% from 31/3/19 (record low) 568 🆙9% on 30/6/23 2,383 Part of record sexual offences backlog 9,792 🆙up 226% from 31/12/18 3,005
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Tricky: By the time you get to, "but it may [sic] harm your defence ..." they've gone.
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My Friday has been poisoned.
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Tricky: By the time you've got to "but it may harm your defence," they've gone.
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Provincial Hack retweeted
BREAKING: Super Puma helicopters carrying National Express coaches will be used to connect Bradford (Derbyshire) to Leeds (Chesire) as part of new #HS2 (Heli Shuttle) plans, reducing the travel time from 80.085hrs to just 7.175mins! Photographed from a Canberra
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BREAKING: The first HS2 train for the North of England runs today, the new service will link Birmingham (Warwickshire) to Manchester (Chesire) and Barnsley (Lancashire) in just 71.75hrs and cost only £800.85bil to build. Tickets will cost £717.5 (Off-Peak) Filmed from a Canberra
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I regret to inform you I just heard a tour guide outside of my work tell a bunch of tourists that ‘barristers get allocated their wigs by an expert in the way Harry Potter gets allocated a wand’.
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Bosh! Nothing full English here but still a great start to the day. As @fryuppolice would say…git some: fruitpig.co.uk/black-pudding…
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