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“Well-known tweeting Barrister” Bar Council “Popular anonymous Barrister” Daily Mail “Possibly cabin crew” my neighbour

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 23h ago

“Who did you ask to peer review you” “Can’t say” “What did they look at” “Can’t tell you” “But you’re the best yeah” “Yep”

Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 2d ago

Posted without comment, but credit to Jail Tales on Instagram #Liam

Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 3d ago

Alright it’s my regular call to arms- please share and donate!! Cost per special forces interpreter is £11k (this is bargain compared to the amount govt waste) and we have only raised £5k of our £55k target. Also I’m walking up mountains for 10 hours 🙏 thank you www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Legal Futures @legalfutures.bsky.social · 3d ago

In-house solicitor struck off for sexually assaulting colleague zurl.co/wG0aX

In-house solicitor struck off for sexually assaulting colleague

A veteran solicitor who continues to dispute his conviction for sexual assault has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5d ago

hello from Britain where I'm in the pub with a group of friends and I would say we're now on minute 20 of them sharing stories about the nonce teachers they had at school

Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · last wk.

You did it! Smashed £5k and on way to £6k!! If you know anyone who might donate please share. Had some amazing support from current and ex special forces guys and families as well as you all and the legal community 💪

Crime Girl@crimegirl.co.uk · last wk.

Thank you so much you wonderful people - nearly smashing £5k which is a tenth of the target! You rock. Please keep sharing and proving everyone else wrong - together we can do this & bring them to safety www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · last wk.

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · last wk.

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 2w ago

Sofía Vergara, Salma Hayek or Kim Cattrall

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2w ago

I regret to inform you that we have reached the “Broadmoor is a holiday camp” stage of right-wing discourse.

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.” “You are not numbers or case files.” “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 2w ago

I object to the notion that we now live in a racist country. My team and my friends haven’t changed, so I don’t expect anyone else has either. The minority’s voices may be emboldened but the majority remains strong

Crime Girl@crimegirl.co.uk · 2w ago

Despite being told ❌ no one will donate ❌ 2026 is “VERY different” to 2021 We have raised over £4k of our £55k target to help 5 SF terps with 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 lit degrees left behind in an undisclosed dangerous country. 🇺🇸 evac theirs 🇫🇷 evac theirs Please help us get 🇬🇧 out www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 2w ago

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2w ago

Raise the Colours, an organisation which has had one of its founders charged with murder, has been heavily implicated in a hit and run (currently under investigation), and another "leading light" faces trial for 22 indecent images charges.

Anna H@athenepallas.bsky.social · 2w ago

This may be a relatively minor thing for people, it may not but the whole phenomenon of 'Raise the Colours' and the shrug with which the government greeted it (IIRC at one point RtC was even tacitly endorsed?) continues to blow my mind.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Mom is gone...We don't have a mom anymore.I wish this were just a nightmare..." Last night,a Russian missile strike on Odesa killed the mom of 3 boys as they were rushing to a shelter.Her sons survived but were injured One more person was killed. Deepest condolences. Russia must be stopped

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3w ago

A very difficult moment. Another one in these terrible years of war. It feels especially acute because the political turbulence in Ukraine comes against a complex backdrop: hope for peace had been growing, driven by Ukraine's military successes, its seizure of the operational initiative, and

Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 3w ago

Whoopsie daisy. 🤣😂🤣😂

Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 3w ago

We broke £3k! Just £52k to go 🙃 please spread the word ❤️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · last yr.

What was true in 18th century France is still true today! Happy #BastilleDay 🇫🇷 #Liberté #égalité #fraternité

“Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law.”

Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 3w ago

12 people have been arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected extreme right-wing terror plot against an Islamic gathering in Suffolk The UK Ijtima, which hosted 15,000 Muslims for a programme of talks and discussions, was closed and evacuated by police on Sunday

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 3w ago

What is now the Crown Court at Minshull Street was built as a Police Court. It was marked for closure after Crown Square opened so maybe it was used as overspill during that period? Or perhaps there was another building used for the Quarter Sessions or civil trials which was used?

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 3w ago

I've never really looked into this before. I can see that the Assize Courts were ruined in 1940. It was 20+ years before the new Crown Court (on Crown Square) was opened. What did they do in that period?

Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Manchester Assize Courts, 1864, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, who also designed Manchester's Town Hall and London's Natural History Museum. Severely damaged in 1940 Blitz, remains demolished 1957.

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Manchester Assize Courts, 1864, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, who also designed Manchester's Town Hall and London's Natural History Museum. Severely damaged in 1940 Blitz, remains demolished 1957.

Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 4w ago

www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Barrister faces jail for helping gangster in revenge attack

Samreen Akhtar, 37, was considered one of the brightest new barristers on the circuit as she built a profile by speaking out against prejudice suffered by young black and Asian aspiring lawyers.

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here we go again - this time it's the CPS using AI generated fake cases and then not actually checking the output properly "The episode highlights the risks of its use without appropriate oversight particularly for legal research." www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

Postcript

Prior to the hearing of the hearing appeal an issue arose concerning the accuracy of certain authorities cited in the Respondents' written submissions.

In grounds of opposition prepared by the Crown Prosecution Service ("CPS") dated 3 June 2025, reliance was placed on a number of authorities said to demonstrate the continued application of the reasoning in Pilecki. Those authorities included cases cited as: Vlad v Romania [2017] EWHC 2060 (Admin) and Jeziorski v Poland [2019] EWHC 3885 (Admin). Neither of these authorities exists.

The same erroneous material had also been carried forward into a further document in the appeal, prepared by junior counsel dated 12 June 2025 headed "Respondent Submissions", such that the non-existent authorities were relied upon in more than one document before the Court. The error was not identified at the permission stage, notwithstanding that the relevant submissions had been before the Court at that point. The erroneous citations were not relied upon in the Respondents' skeleton argument dated 2 February 2026, settled by junior and leading counsel. Equally, the Respondents' skeleton did not explain (as is clear now, see below) that the false citations had by then been identified by those acting for the Respondents.

Initially, it appeared that the error was not identified by the Respondent or its legal representatives, but by those acting for the Appellants, who were unable to locate the cases despite searches of the usual legal databases. The matter was therefore raised with the CPS, first by email on 3 February 2026, and then by letter dated 5 February 2026 and brought to the attention of the Court.

The CPS responded the following day, acknowledging the error. An apology was offered, and it was made clear that there had been no intention to mislead the Court. The CPS indicated that enquiries were being undertaken into the circumstances in which the citations came to be included in the submissions. Leading and junior counsel for the Respondents provided a Note to the Court dated 9 February 2026 which stated that the two cases did not exist and that the Respondents regretted and apologised for the fact that the erroneous citations were placed before the court in the documents dated 3 and 12 June 2025 and that they had not been included in bad faith. The Note stated that an investigation was underway into the circumstances in which the citations came to be included in the two documents and that the matter was being considered at senior levels of the CPS. A fuller explanation was subsequently provided in a letter from the Chief Crown Prosecutor dated 3 March 2026, which proceeded on the basis that the error was not identified by counsel instructed until it was raised by the Appellants.

In its letter, dated 3 March 2026, the CPS accepted that the citations were inaccurate and explained that they were likely to have originated from the use of artificial intelligence. However, the CPS identified the critical failing as the fact that the reviewing lawyer did not properly check the accuracy of the document before it was filed and served.

The position of the CPS was therefore that, while the immediate source of the error may have been the use of generative artificial intelligence, the operative cause was human error in the failure to verify the authorities relied upon in formal submissions placed before the Court. The CPS emphasised that this was not a deliberate attempt to mislead, but rather an isolated incident arising from inadequate checking of written work.

The CPS indicated that, once the issue came to light, it had undertaken a series of steps.

i) First, a full internal review was initiated in order to establish how the error had occurred.

ii) Secondly, in order to assess whether the issue was confined to this case, senior managers reviewed a substantial number of other cases (78 in total) conducted by the same lawyer. That review did not identify similar issues, and the lawyer's work was otherwise assessed to be of a good standard.

iii) Thirdly, the CPS used the incident as an opportunity to reinforce professional obligations within the Extradition Unit. In particular, lawyers were reminded of their duty, as officers of the court, to ensure the accuracy of written submissions. Internal processes were also reviewed, and the learning points arising from the incident were disseminated more widely across the organisation.

iv) Finally, the CPS indicated that the matter would be raised with instructed counsel, noting that the error had not been identified prior to being drawn to its attention by the Appellants. (In fact, and as below, this subsequently proved to be incorrect: the error had already been identified by junior counsel.)

The CPS concluded that, in light of these steps, the risk of recurrence was low.

In summary therefore, at the outset of the appeal hearing the Court was faced with a situation in which non-existent authorities had been cited in formal submissions on behalf of the Respondent. The error appeared not to have been identified by those responsible for preparing or reviewing the submissions, nor by counsel, but was instead brought to light by the opposing party. The CPS had explained the matter as arising from the use of artificial intelligence combined with a failure of proper verification, and has taken steps internally to investigate, review and mitigate the risk of repetition.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4w ago

Daily Mail poll going hilariously south for Nigel Farage.. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Who would you vote for in the
Clacton by-election?

Nigel Farage

17%
1546 votes

Count Binface

72%
6391 votes

It's all a waste of time and
money

1 1%
941
votes

8878 votes. 72% of others agreed with you.

Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 4w ago

I know it’s supposed to be a sweet story but I am hung up on… “after he amputated it” he did THAT with it 💀 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...

Vietnam war veteran reunited with long-lost arm

A former North Vietnamese soldier is reunited with his arm after more than 40 years, when the US war doctor who amputated it returned the bones in person.

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · last mo.

Nearly £3k come on guys 😭 www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · last mo.

Nearly £3k come on guys 😭 www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £55000 to bring our remaining caseload to safety and provide the support they need. – JustGiving Crowdfunding

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · last mo.

Now I'm just a simple country lawyer but this guy sounds like a criminal

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump: "Every time I see a crypto guy where they dropped an investigation, I said, 'You're lucky I'm president.'"