Canary Wharf looking good in the sun

What a result! Well done Spurs #COYS

Happy Australia Day! 🇦🇺

I told you: now the bill's sponsors (this is the disgraceful barrister-Labour MP Jake Richards) are saying that the High Court approval should be dropped because there aren't enough judges to approve the applications (as we told them).

Happy Thanksgiving!

The birth of a star as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

Just reposting my piece from yesterday on the constitutional questions raised by the assisted dying Bill. The more I think about it, the odder the Cabinet Secretary’s position on ministerial neutrality seems. publiclawforeveryone.com/2024/11/18/a...

Please do car parking apps

Its a fair question www.avclub.com/weird-al-ask...

Good article - makes a lot of sense. There’s needs to be more devolution and mayors are the (now) obvious way to do it open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...

This is not a serious politician - please do not elect him leader of the opposition www.politico.eu/article/tory...

Struggling to see how she wins the election while losing her own seat

Had no idea this existed

Why can’t Werner score?

Oh Spurs

A trio of somewhat depressing blog posts about open justice not going quite as it ought to in the family court… First up, our legal blogger @maggotlaw.bsky.social's account of trying and failing to observe a family court hearing in the magistrates court transparencyproject.org.uk/keep-out-whe...

0-1 after a minute. What’s going on Spurs?

No reason why GHR couldn’t exist for counsel www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/talks-o...

The new champions league format sucks www.football365.com/news/new-cha...

Well that changed. But Spurs so poor tonight

Glad Spurs got the goal but this is still pretty embarrassing

New social media platform, same old terrible Spurs performance

In a shameless attempt to grow my following on here, I'm going to be giving away a GE2024 poster to one lucky winner who retweets this post (and is following) in 24 hours time. Best of luck!

Although arising out of a statutory duty, the approach to consider mediation at the outset, as opposed to consideration of whether a refusal to mediate was unreasonable, is one that merits consideration civilmediation.org/ireland-high...

This article by Lord Sumption is very good on the US Supreme Court www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

📝 The government's approach to civil service appointments has been an unforced error There are clear and established ways for ministers to bring in outside expertise into government, writes @drhannahwhite.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/civi...

Merry Christmas!

Another step on the path to mandatory mediation? CoA decides that the courts can “lawfully stay proceedings for, or order, the parties to engage in a non-court-based dispute resolution process…” as long as it doesn’t impair the right to a judicial hearing www.judiciary.uk/judgments/ja...