NEW - 'Not Proven' 🔍 🏛️ This week, Scot Parl passed the Bill which will abolish Scotland's Not Proven verdict. Today @jameschalmers.bsky.social, @fionaleverick.bsky.social, Prof Vanessa Munro revisit the argument they made for it in 2021 and crucially - what's next. 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

A new report from @uofglasgow.bsky.social researchers reviews evidence on rape myths and jury decision making, and how these can be addressed. Authors @fionaleverick.bsky.social, @jameschalmers.bsky.social, Eamon Keane, Jacqueline Kinghan share more in a new blog: 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

You’ve probably seen this before but it is always worth reposting. Please always check in with friends. People’s struggles are not always evident. And be kind to yourself too. youtu.be/tX8TgVR33KM?...

MacCormick Fellowships: Deadline 15 Oct 2024 Early to mid-career researchers (usually <10 yrs post-PhD) Visit Edinburgh Law School for 1-3 months 2025/26. Award supports travel & stay. Check details online before reaching out: www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/res... #AcademicChat #Law #Criminology

Protestors outside the Sandyford in Glasgow on the last day before the safe access zones come in. They cannot arrive soon enough. No “silent prayer” today. Loud protest that would be distressing for any woman or girl accessing the services 😭

I know many of you will know Dr Emily Cooper (criminographer): if, like me, you still have a Twitter/X account but never use it, please consider making an exception to send her and Darren your love, support, prayers - whatever you want to offer.

He’s here 🤩🤩🤩

This is so good. Full of killer quotable lines. eg “He's managed to turn […] Tesla from an icon brand catering to well-off environmentalists to […] one instead associated with impotent try-hard faux-masculinity.”

Could someone please persuade @dieworkwear.bsky.social to start posting his cool stuff about men’s fashion on here? It’s literally the only thing I miss from X/Twitter.

I think the time has come to leave Twitter/X. But I can’t do it without one last hurrah for my finest moment. I am on the Blue Place with the same username but nothing I do there will ever top this 😭 #WhenTwitterWasGood

Aberdeen University alumni can sign an open letter to protest the proposed scrapping of modern language degrees here - www.gaudie.co.uk/post/save-ou...

This man grabbed his penis when Spain won and forcibly kissed Hermoso on the lips without her consent. All on live TV. Now they are trying to gaslight us into believing “she wanted it” by publishing pictures of her body language. I feel sick. ...

Watching the Wimbledon men’s final and remembering six years ago when N relegated the winner of Wimbledon to a side story 🤩

Heaving into ⁦@UofGlasgow⁩ on another scorching day for the annual Sir Gerald Gordon Seminar in Criminal Law. Remembering Pete Duff and Gerry Maher, who both died this year. Both were supporters of the seminar right from its inaugural event in 2009. We will miss them.

Ta dah - a cheeky little chocolate and vanilla fudge number for @UofGLaw #CakeDay

What can this mean? There’s only one explanation - it must be ⁦@UofGLaw⁩ #CakeDay 🧁🧁🧁

I have a blue passport. I am very sad 😭😭😭 Could an EU nation please adopt me?

It’s a winter wonderland out there today @UofGlasgow

Currently sitting in Kelvingrove Park and can hear the Jesus and Mary Chain sound check in one ear and THREE separate piping groups practising for the Scottish Piping Championships in the other. It’s an … interesting mix.

Fab day yesterday holding the Gerald Gordon Seminar in Criminal Law in person for the first time in 3 years. Huge thanks to our wonderful speakers ⁦@jcollinsbristol⁩ ⁦@CyrusTata1⁩ ⁦@MrFass⁩ ⁦@roxanna_law⁩ Louise Kennefick, Peter Reid and Stephen Skinner.

Just discovered @PayGapApp - every time an organisation tweets about #IWD it retweets with their gender pay gap 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 The results are … illuminating 😳

There’s terrible things going on in the world this morning but as a bit of light relief Scotland’s gritters never fail to make me smile ❄️❄️❄️

Gruntasnorus Poo Face 0 Gruntasnorus Poo Face’s Daughter 2. But I Will Win The War.

Ha - daughter’s evil plot foiled as I spotted this just in time! #GruntasnorusPooFaceMarkTwo

At Glasgow Central Mosque getting 12 year old a second dose. Slight queue (maybe 10 mins) but not too bad. Open until 7pm if anyone wants to do the same before school goes back.

My daughter appears to have won a school award for her personification of evil 😳 This is … concerning.

I feel desperately sorry for Mrs Harper. However … Is this to apply to causing death by dangerous driving/careless driving? Even applying it to manslaughter cases drives a coach and horses through the principle of reflecting culpability in sentencing. ...

I missed @bbcstrictly last week so tonight was the first time I’ve seen Johannes and John and I’m 😭😭😭 Two men dancing together, hugging, holding hands on mainstream tv. This will mean so much to so many young people. Just joyful in a week where there’s not been a lot of that.

Well having just sent an email to a colleague saying I “know how busty you are” my day is going just swimmingly, thank you for asking 😳

Yeah yeah Men’s Euros meh but tonight someone got to hold the @GlasgowCityFC SWPL trophy at U12s training 🤩🤩🤩

This week’s BBC Radio 4 - Law in Action has a segment on the Scottish not proven verdict (starting at 08:25) featuring me and ⁦@EdithAdvocate⁩. Many thanks to ⁦@JoshuaRozenberg⁩ for inviting us on. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wjql

We’ve seen the best and the worst of my adopted home city this week. It’s a beautiful place with lovely people and I’m going to focus on that today.

I popped into my office today to collect some things. I’d forgotten this was pinned to my door. She’s now a grumpy almost teenager who doesn’t want to spend time with me because I’m “too embarrassing” 😭😭😭Lockdown has been .... long.

1. So today I got my first dose of COVID vaccine. I didn’t know until I got there that I’d be one of the first in Scotland to be given Moderna (woo!) But I’d have taken any one of the vaccines. Why? Because I had COVID just over a year ago. This thread is my story.

I’ve just been for a little walk around the University and I saw Eddie our lovely lovely janitor for the first time in over a year and it’s been so long and I’ve missed him and all my lovely colleagues and I want to cry 😭😭😭

In today’s epic fail I have just accidentally registered for a conference as “Princess Fiona Leverick” 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ Well I guess it is a step up from Professor Gruntasnorus Poo Face 🤷🏻‍♀️

The gates to Kelvingrove Park. People stopping and reading and nodding silently. It’s taken my breath away.

There’s a lot of reasons to be upset and frustrated today. But here in a little corner of Kelvingrove Park, spring is coming 🌷🌷🌷 #WhereThereAreCrocusesThereIsHope

Oh happy days - I’m reunited with my PC from work after a laptop malfunction. Just look at that lovely big screen 🤩 Now all I need to do is get it working before my 3pm class. Simple ...

Um ... isn’t that normal? 😳 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jan/15/experience-i-drink-more-than-50-cups-of-tea-a-day?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

So far my “working day” has consisted of being an involuntary participant in a pillow fight, having my desk taken over by llamas and trying to read my email to the sound of Boppi the Booty Shakin’ Llama in the background. How’s your day going?

So upset about Erasmus. For the UK students’ lost opportunities but also for the loss of EU visiting students. Really valued having them in my classes - we learned so much from each other about different ways of doing things. It’s an insular narrow-minded spiteful decision.

In other news the @UofGLaw Stair Building was looking lovely but lonely this afternoon. Here’s to being back in 2021 🥂

I’m never going to be allowed to forget this, am I??? 🦖💩

OK so the world may be crumbling around us but on the plus side I’ve just discovered @YorkshireTea biscuit brew and things are looking a tiny bit brighter 🤩🤩🤩

Right I’ve carved out a little bit of precious time to bash on with the huge pile of marking and ..... oh. It seems Moodle is off line. Nice timing guys 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

No. Not the schools 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Well whatever Nicola says now, at least she knows how to start a briefing at the right time.

When, when, when will journalists learn to ask ONE QUESTION AT A TIME????