Fantastic result at the RCJ yesterday - privileged to work alongside Amanda Weston KC and phenomenal Jennifer Twite. We represented a boy who was a victim of child criminal exploitation having been trafficked by a county lines gang. @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social

✨ Huge thanks to Amanda Weston KC for chairing & Amanda Meusz for speaking at our seminar. We were pleased to hear from Kat Edwards (Elfrida Society) & Nicola Lewis (Intermediary Co-operative), who highlighted the barriers parents with learning difficulties face & the need to push for best practice.

Happy International Women’s Day 2025!!! To all the wonderful women who are holding up more than half the sky - thank you to my mother, sisters and daughters xxx

📣‘Unlocking potential: Lawyers Who Care’ published in Counsel Magazine The article is co-authored by Kate Aubrey-Johnson (@kateaj.bsky.social) of Garden Ct & Lucy Barnes (@cepbarrister.bsky.social) of Lawyers Who Care for this issue of Counsel Magazine. gardencourtchambers.co.uk/unlocking-po...

Fantastic closing by Mrs Justice May, judicial lead for children. It’s not about being “soft” but about complying with the law which says the welfare of the child is a principal aim, & requires us to understand the reasons (not excuses) for behaviour #worldchildrensday @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social

Charlie Taylor @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social conference on the current state of youth custody states that it was not what he intended when he proposed the secure school, which was to be instead of YOIs. We now have 4 types of custody, with 4 different inspection frameworks for around 400 children

Keynote from Charlie Taylor @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social who stands by his 2016 “take” on the youth justice system but notes that the secure school took eight years to open

100% of children involved in county lines in 2019 had been excluded from school says Kate Aubrey-Johnson opening @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social conference on ending the school to prison pipeline #worldchildrensday

Shameless self promotion ftw! Using my first post to promote my new #London tour of #holidaygifts and #history promoting good independent stores with affordable stuff: dannylang.co.uk/london-indep...