We are one step away from seizing gold teeth. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I have two PhDs and honestly managing to successfully connect to the university printing service is probably my greatest accomplishment

Cant see too many people weeping over this. The turnout at last PCC election averaged something like 23% www.theguardian.com/uk-news2025/...

Book Launch! Please join us on Wednesday 19th November @qmul.bsky.social at Queen Mary to hear the wonderful Alan Norrie discuss his latest book. Tix available online or in person - see below! Please repost.

Book Launch! Please join us on Wednesday 19th November @qmul.bsky.social at Queen Mary to hear the wonderful Alan Norrie discuss his latest book. Tix available online or in person - see below! Please repost.

Once when I reviewed book proposals I was paid actual money. For the last five years at least I have been only offered books. Today for the first time the offer has been e-books, which are already free to me. I imagine next I'll be paying them?

I’ll be in London next week to launch my new book about LGBT rights. Come along for good chats and refreshments! 🍷📖 📆: Tuesday 11th November ⏰: 6.30-8.00pm 📍: Council Room, King’s College London, The Strand It’s free to attend. Just register for a ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/queer...

In two separate trials relating to the same protest, one group was able to use the "reasonable excuse" statutory defence of public nuisance that included stating agreed climate facts to the jury and were acquitted and the other group were not permitted to use the defence and were convicted.

From yesterday: Some appeals should still be listed for a hearing even where an unrepresented appellant has not asked for one | Sonia Lenegan

the only "evidence" against this person is a confession obtained when he was 17 when he was interviewed without family members or legal representation present and was vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Ministry of Justice convicted of a crime after they failed to enter a plea via their own online plea entering system, unaware of their conviction until notified by a reporter, but they reassure us it's all working great 👍

Ministry of Justice convicted of a crime after they failed to enter a plea via their own online plea entering system, unaware of their conviction until notified by a reporter, but they reassure us it's all working great 👍

Sending a mass invitation to academic staff. clicking send, then immediately receiving 40.000 out of office responses.

I was sad to learn of William Twining’s death. He was my partner’s LLM supervisor; we spent time together most recently in 2019 before the world locked down. I’m sure I have a better photo somewhere, but this one captures that one simple day at his home. My deepest condolences to Penelope and family

‘The​ current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.’ In his final piece for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, Conor Gearty writes on the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the HRA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Looking forward to joining the pre-show debate about the lure of the courtroom for theatre & filmbefore the new play by Katherine Moar about Patti Hearst, Ragdoll @jstheatre.bsky.social

Terrible pics but fantastic to be at launch of Lucy Welsh's Nuffield research into experiences of applicants to the Criminal Case Review Commission. Great panel chat with law commissioner Penney Lewis, Dame @verabaird.bsky.social CCRC chair, Kim Johnson MP, Danny Barrs and APPEAL's Emma Todd.

🚨BOOK LAUNCH🚨 at the Criminal Justice Centre QM @qmul.bsky.social @crimjusticecentre.bsky.social Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice: Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology 📅 Wednesday 19th November 6pm - 7.30 📍QMUL Mile End, Room 313 Tix: FREE at tinyurl.com/2s4bf3py Please share!

Might try an experiment in criminal law this year where for my public order offences lecture I just read through all the current and proposed protest offences and the students can place bets over whether I can cover them all in 2 hours or if I run out of time.

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

The safety of minority groups is never ever achieved by giving police greater powers.

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants. Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

The Home Secretary is now planning to find a way to criminalise the "cumulative effect" of protest.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Spilled water on my son's school bag this morning. Pretty sure he'll be the only kid in reception today with a John Shuttleworth tote.

My ILR cost something like £1200 in 2013, what then felt like a huge amount for a PhD student. Citizenship then cost £700 a year later. This now looks positively cheap compared to the current costs of £3k plus for ILR and £1700 for citizenship.

Registrations are now open for our workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism'! The workshop will be hybrid and take place on 30 & 31 October at Melbourne Law School. See the draft program: drive.google.com/file/d/1YbYn...

"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

This week's lunch with the FT is Tom Hollandander. Not Spiderman. Or the historian. The one of Rev and the Night Manager. That one. And it's a really good read. Includes references to noisily masticating bread. www.ft.com/content/2a02...

Today's post delves a bit into the history of #sociology, memories of Erving #Goffman, and his use of #metaphor as method makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/26/e...

Politics is hard. You never know how people are going to react. But I really feel "do not appoint the guy who's best friends with a paedophile to a big embassy" is not a hard one to get.

This is just to say I have eaten the swans that were in the duck pond and which you were probably saving for the King Forgive me they were delicious so white and so necky

BREAKING The backlog of cases in Crown Courts in England and Wales has reached a record high of 78,329.

The Times once again excelling itself at picking a serious subject and then amplifying only cretinous responses. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Both the Tylenol stuff in the US and the ILR stuff in the UK are equally deranged and perhaps speak to the dangerous way in which conspiracy theories are distorting politics. These announcements should be seen as no different to senior politicans coming out in support of flat earth.

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

My article “Current Approaches to the Use of Generative AI in Australian Courts and Tribunals: Should Australian Judges Have Guidelines Too?” is now out in the Journal of Judicial Administration! Short answer: yes. Slightly longer answer: nobody should be using it for legal research or writing.

In our research, we spoke to experts in human trafficking who were uniformly clear that raising a modern slavery defence requires resources and quality representation that is simply not available to most defendants in first instance proceedings. This is why it's usually only dealt with at appeal.

Check out the Sutton Trust's Elitist Britain 2025 report. Link to report: www.suttontrust.com/our-research... @suttontrust.bsky.social

It’s launch day for No Is Not A Lonely Utterance! So I shared some of my reasons for writing the book 💜💜

i'm on a writing retreat (i've retreated from writing)

It is 20 years since Conor Gearty gave the Hamlyn Lectures on Can Human Rights Survive? As a mark of respect following the dreadful news of his, Cambridge University Press & Assessment has made these lectures Open Access for the remainder of the year. You can find them here: lnkd.in/e5Xrt2G5

This is great news and props to my brilliant colleague at Warwick Law School, Vanessa Munro, for playing such a huge part in this.

This is a brilliant piece and well worth your time ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

So let me get this straight. Last month a barrister was DISBARRED for lying about going to Oxford and this week an anaesthetist has been allowed to stay on the medical register despite LEAVING HIS PATIENT UNDER GENERAL ANAESTHETIC TO GO HAVE SEX WITH A NURSE www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...