No acknowledgement of the damage he's done to 1. Trust, upon which academic life is based 2. Attempts to correct the imbalance of who gets top University jobs 3. Cambridge 4. Liverpool John Moores 5. The discipline he works in. Where he chooses to make the announcement is very appropriate.

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 47m ago

An update from Professor Arday https://goodlawproject.org/an-update-from-jason-arday/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=glp_post_27503&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=05-08-2026

I participated in this BBC Radio 4 series on inheritance in England and its contemporary problems presented by Tony Hawks last year. It’s being repeated this week at 11.45 on weekday mornings www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

BBC Sounds - Tony Hawks Is Giving Nothing Away - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Tony Hawks Is Giving Nothing Away on BBC Sounds.

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This grim, sad case of the son who kept his dead mother’s body in a freezer and continued to claim her benefits has been quite widely reported in the news. There have been a number of similar cases in other countries with an ageing population eg Japan, Italy www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

I don’t think the Charity Commission would let Amnesty International UK get away with describing any other charity organised around beliefs which are protected in English law as “anti-rights”, nor should it do so.

31 July is the end of the English legal year, but I won’t be returning this autumn with the metaphorical new pencil case as I am retiring after 35 years in practice at the Chancery Bar in Lincoln’s Inn, London open.substack.com/pub/bleakhou...

In Chancery no longer

Retiring from a career at the Chancery Bar between 1991-2026

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I’ve written for my long-neglected Substack on the story of Actaeon and Diana, and Metamorphoses at the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond open.substack.com/pub/bleakhou...

Metamorphoses at Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond

Sex Matters v The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London [2026]

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I really deplore this sort of thing. GRKC has, with respect, either not read the published judgment & sentencing remarks or, if he has, has ignored them. For example, it was the defendants' lawyers who sought restrictions against the public knowing about the pre-trial "terrorism connection" ruling.

You may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law | Geoffrey Robertson

The jurors who found the pro-Palestine activists guilty of criminal damage had no idea their verdict would be treated as a verdict on terrorism, says Geoffrey Robertson KC

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I’ve written for my long-neglected Substack on the story of Actaeon and Diana, and Metamorphoses at the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond open.substack.com/pub/bleakhou...

Metamorphoses at Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond

Sex Matters v The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London [2026]

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The Assisted Death bill is revived: @laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social will take the Bill under her name. Division ahead: this hastily drafted Bill was opposed by medical colleges and disability groups. And it had fierce criticism on its risk to women 🧵

I’m trying, but failing, to imagine any of the many student protesters of my day disrupting a *law* lecture. “What do we want?” “Liability for nervous shock in tort”. “When do we want it?” “Before the extended limitation period under the Latent Damage Act expires”. “No, now”.

rickypo.bsky.social@rickypo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oxford University is facing questions over its handling of repeated disruption of public talks by Dr Michael Foran, associate professor of law and tutorial fellow at Keble College, after trans activists interrupted two events linked to his recent work. thecritic.co.uk/the-screamin...

Despite the ornate setting of Westminster, this press conference has the ineffable air of the sad-faced losers’ gathering in the cafe at the end of each episode of The Apprentice. We need and deserve better legislation than this Bill would have been. I’m glad it failed

Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Campaigners and parliamentarians who support the assisted dying bill are holding a press conference about next steps, insisting that they will bring the bill back. “There is appetite” to do so, insists Kim Leadbeater.

I am very much saddened to report that my friend, @nearlylegal.co.uk passed away this weekend. nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/04/gile...

The Bar Standards Board sent the GLP a detailed determination rejecting the complaint of harassment on 27 March 2026. Yet it has taken the GLP almost a week to update its followers on this outcome, and to do so with redaction of examples of the complainant’s own abusive language cited by the BSB

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 4mo ago

Barrister Sarah Phillimore repeatedly deadnamed and misgendered a trans woman online. Her regulator has rejected our complaint – but we won’t be giving up: https://goodlawproject.org/bar-standards-board-fails-to-act-on-barrister-harassment/

For anyone looking for a long read on the WASPI campaign. The government was right to say “no” to WASPI, who have inflated women’s expectations and resisted any form of means or merits testing and whose campaign would benefit numerous women who neither need nor deserve compensation. I am one myself

Dr Julie Doughty@juliedoughty.bsky.social · 6mo ago

this is helpful, by @barbararich.bsky.social Full Restitution, Empty Promises - Bleak House Revisited share.google/r6fYfMADVNys...

this is helpful, by @barbararich.bsky.social Full Restitution, Empty Promises - Bleak House Revisited share.google/r6fYfMADVNys...

Full Restitution, Empty Promises

The WASPI campaign and increases in women’s state pension age

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A man dressed as for court in wig, gown, wing collar, and bands in order to judge a moot run by the ICC Bar Association in The Hague may not be what he seems. This individual is an unqualified paralegal from the Netherlands with a fantasy aspiration of becoming an English barrister

RollOnFriday@rollonfriday.bsky.social · 6mo ago

EXCLUSIVE Bloomsbury withdraws legal textbook after author's CV unravels www.rollonfriday.com/news-content...

Quite appallingly, the shadow Lord Chancellor and shadow Secretary of State for Justice has posted to X an inaccurate and misleading statement about the Court of Appeal’s judgment, mistakenly quoting and describing paragraph 114 of the judgment it overruled, not the Court of Appeal’s own reasoning

Barbara Rich@barbararich.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Full judgment in appeal on Epping Bell hotel interim injunction now published www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Could I take this opportunity to suggest to all my followers that they follow Barbara? She comes from a different political perspective to me but she is always worth hearing even when (especially when) we disagree.

Barbara Rich@barbararich.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Full judgment in appeal on Epping Bell hotel interim injunction now published www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

A little excursion into legal history. The effigy of Sir William Gascoigne, Henry IV’s Lord Chancellor, who died in 1419, and his first wife, and a memorial to Sir Thomas Denison, an 18th century judge of the King’s Bench Division, All Saints’ Church, Harewood, Yorkshire

Full judgment in appeal on Epping Bell hotel interim injunction now published www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Two important omissions from this story The reporting barrister, Steven Barrett, is associated with “Lawyers for Borders” who encourage and assist local authorities seeking these injunctions Complaints about judicial case management decisions are outside the remit of the conduct body

This is really excellent on our understandings of - and the reality of - intergenerational inequality.

Martin Robbins@mjrobbins.com · last yr.

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

Not tired of London, not tired of life

Farah Damji, the offender who the judge described as having spent her life “harming others” “, has relied on the use of aliases and on the willingness of people to trust appearances and support social justice campaigns to launder her reputation over and over again. Lawyers and judges - be warned

Nigel Gould-Davies@nigelgould-davies.bsky.social · last yr.

Personal news, which I rarely share here. My stalker was sentenced to 6 years for a "campaign of psychological cruelty". She has a "long and truly appalling" criminal record, and has spent her life "harming others". My deepest thanks to everyone who has supported me through this ordeal.

Sentencing remarks or HHJ Joanna Greenberg KC in R v Farah Damji. A sentence of six years immediate custody for various offences including “psychological torture” of her victim www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-...

This is the most compelling, closely-argued case against the Assisted Dying Bill that I’ve read.

Jess Asato MP@jessasatomp.bsky.social · last yr.

Tomorrow, the Assisted Dying Bill returns to the Commons chamber. It is not safe to become law and I will vote against it. Here's why 👇

A plea for a sense of proportion. Criminal damage is criminal damage. Guilty defendants shouldn’t be sentenced as if the inanimate objects they’ve damaged or destroyed had human qualities and had read out their victim impact statements in court

Next Friday (16 May) the #AssistedDying bill returns to the House of Commons chamber. So we sat down with @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social to discuss the state of play with the Bill and what further amendments she thinks are still needed. 🎧 Tune in now: buff.ly/GAExxWv

Dr Nitschke’s working on a couple’s Sarco pod. It sounds like a grim reaper version of a couple’s spa day: scented candles, plinky-plink music, fluffy towels, massage a deux, exfoliation, a slice of cucumber over the eyes, hold hands, and press the red button for extinction

Alona Ferber@aloner.bsky.social · last yr.

"In the pod, there’s a red button. This is what you’d press to die. What a crazy way to go, is all I can think. Nitschke’s face looms outside the plastic windows" A fantastic piece by @emilylawford.bsky.social from our new issue @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

On #VEDay80 a small handful of mudlarked artefacts found on the foreshore, a timely and poignant reminder today that the Thames was at war too. Military buttons, cap badges, collar badges, anti-aircraft shrapnel, bullet fragments (no longer live.) London suffered huge losses during the Blitz and 1/