The Holly v The Ivy [2025] KB 24 A heart-warming Christmas legal thriller in which the owners of two neighbouring pubs, locked in a long-running boundary dispute, discover the real meaning of Christmas before the Kings Bench Division. 🎄🎄🎄

I’ve got a growing fondness for the layout of the Pupillage Gateway.

Four laws good, two laws bad.

Sometimes things get out of hand. Feels like only yesterday I was learning to write and now I’m drafting pupillage applications. ‘There are three reasons why…’

People often question decisions of the Magistrates’ Court but I challenge anyone to name a single mags decision successfully overturned before the Court of Appeal. I’ll wait.

The woke terrorists made me do it

The naming of a Goodyear indication is just a little too on the nose imv

Another training, another opportunity to indulge in feedforward.

Are problems inherited from the previous government tax deductible?

I have concerns about Cork and the people of Cork.

It’s crazy to me that there are no other common law English-speaking countries with a codified constitution the UK can look to apart from the USA. It’s either the USA or nothing.

Soldier F found not guilty.

‘What’re your thoughts on adverse possession post LRA 2002?’ I ask as my last remaining friend sighs deeply.

Fun fact: in Irish, Wales is called ‘Little Britain’. Who knew?!

Can a vessel enter into a common law marriage?

No I don’t want R v Donoghue No I don’t want R v Stevenson No I don’t want Timpson v Strawbridge for some reason

A dark day for those of us who enjoy critically acclaimed, gritty, inauthentic crime and legal thrillers. Boo!

It was cow bell time in Kent.

Trying to decide how the Inns of Court match up with Hogwarts houses. So far my thinking is that Inner obviously is Gryffindor for reasons which don’t even need explanation. Gray’s Inn is Ravenclaw I think?!

Came up with a simple mnemonic to remember the gateways for admissibility of bad character evidence under s101(1) Always Bring Crisps Down Even For Ginny Won’t be forgetting them in a hurry now!

If you get kicked out of Fetter Lane just before using the royal prerogative of mercy has the prerogative been unfettered?

Struggling to make ends meet this month. Can anyone help me budget? £450 rent £256.87 on groceries £3750 on legal texts £47.90 on transport. I’m literally fighting to tread water here.

You must cease and desist in your attempt to aid and abet anyone to give, devise, or bequeath anything under this last will and testament as it is null and void.

“Application to dismiss, your honour,” I say, leaning towards the mic. “The prosecution case is all circumstantial evidence.”

The new ‘ingenious’ dropped to chill all our souls.

If in the course of submissions it becomes clear to the tribunal that the aggregate sum of the damage done to property, real or chattels, exceeds the regulated sum the court will have discretion to… God help us do you have to love reading to do this job! Luckily I do.

Haha, we showed that so-called Secret so-called Barrister guys @barristersecret.bsky.social

My LLB is finally finished and awarded 🍾🍾🍾 My requests to my children to call me Daddy LLB (Hons) have so far fallen on deaf ears and rolled eyes.

You’re rewatching Harry Potter for the magical story line set in a British private school. I’m rewatching it for the crash course in late 00s and early 10s fashion. We are not the same.

Just started my new PR consultancy. What do you guys think?

Coming from a common law background I can’t understand this whole ECHR living instrument thing. The idea of the law changing and morphing due to judgments made over time is all a bit mad isn’t it?

Did you know that New York, London, and Asia are all Gaelic counties?

Carrying my copy of the White Book around

Brb getting called to the bar so I can be an authentic tour guide around legal London.

Non-political opinion? Hurling is the sport of the gods.

For science I am trying to find two points in Cork which are four hours drive from one another.

Across Ireland thousands of television producers are preparing montages to the tune of the Rocky Road to Dublin. At this very moment.

I actually did it while full of reck, reckfully if you will.

If you start Ulysses today you’ll give up just in time for Bloomsday!

I can’t stop thinking about a detail in Ulysses: Stephen’s ashplant walking stick. I have two theories running in my head and decide between them.

The Rocky Road to Dublin is an allegory for a legal case wending its way from a local court all the way over to England.

Proofs! In the next issue of Public Law, @colinmurray.bsky.social and I discuss things the Supreme Court has to confront as it hears the first successful Windsor Framework challenge later this year. Grateful to @aileenmcharg.bsky.social and @rogermasterman.bsky.social for the rapid turnaround!

If you equate lawyers and their clients you have to spend eternity being haunted by Ghost Barristers

Guys I just sat the last exam of my law degree and now I’m bereft. What in God’s name am I going to meme about now?!

I’m so going to do the Keble Course. One day!

Ok so anything which belongs to someone is property and just about anything can be property. But, is there anything which can’t have an equitable interest arise?

What’s a secret trusts case I should know about which is guaranteed to get me a first?

German adherence to art 1 GG seems as inexplicable to Americans as American adherence to the second amendment is to Germans.

See below good reasons for labelling a party as extremist:

Something deeply fishy about being able to buy citizenship. Residency seems fine, but citizenship?