Rachel Wilkinson-Duffy

@IanStreetersays @Minderbinder8 @BirgitC @Justice30 nhs.uk/conditions/mmr…

@Minderbinder8 @BirgitC @Justice30 How did you having that vaccination protect other people?

@BirgitC While I was never taught advanced maths, I was definitely taught this level and the answer would unquestionably have been 44. Why on earth would you start halfway through and go back on yourself? 🤷‍♀️

@BirgitC @legaltechIRL @sumolaw @Ahlesaadat @alexgsmith The first response describes my mental response perfectly. 😉

@legaltechIRL @BirgitC @sumolaw @Ahlesaadat @alexgsmith Far too techie for me. I’ll stick to good old fashioned oil dug out from a dust heap at a car boot. 😂

@sumolaw @legaltechIRL @Ahlesaadat @alexgsmith Huh, yes that does seem completely pointless. Unless perhaps if at a really small price to pay for the easy availability? 🤷‍♀️

@Rachel__WD @legaltechIRL @Ahlesaadat @alexgsmith But some people have been talking about NFTs relating to museum collections without permission of museum and even when these are out of copyright!? What would be unique here - I can get tea towel with some of these images, Google the images, print off copy for free etc....

@sumolaw @Ahlesaadat @legaltechIRL @alexgsmith Presumably you could have some digital setup which displayed it? If not, agree it does seem pretty pointless.

@Ahlesaadat @legaltechIRL @alexgsmith But you can’t put an NFT on the wall. Unless you only buy modern art for how much it’s worth?

@legaltechIRL How is this anymore limiting then buying traditional art? When you buy a painting you don’t generally get the copyright in the painting too. Genuinely curious if this is different.

@sumolaw @EsmeBanksMarr @_sim2011 Hear, hear!!

@EsmeBanksMarr @_sim2011 I don’t know - I’m totally fed up working from home. Keen to get back for at least few days a week. Flexibility will continue but I reckon lot of people are missing human interaction that comes with being in an office

The average office is not going to draw employees back.

@hsmall All very true! At this point in time though, while we are glued to home desks, I should like to point out that yoga, while not curing cancer, can help keep you from staying folded up like a rusty old picnic table after months in the garage. 😃

@sumolaw Gorgeous! But then he would be in any size or level of scruffiness. Mine deny me the fun of haircuts, being shorthaired.

@Rachel__WD I think photo may be misleading. He now looks like a fawn. I miss scruff bag

They have given Scully a crew cut. He’s unrecognisable

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@sumolaw If they vote it through, I think I will cry. So, so, so shameful. 😢

Goodness they can’t win. Last time they lost the whip for rejecting the deal which the government wanted them to sign. It signed it and now wants to renege and they lose whip if they vote against rejecting the deal.

@stiggle @ip_leyland @BarristerSecret That’s an accident. Manslaugher requires criminal negligence.

@ip_leyland @BarristerSecret A fight breaks out outside a nightclub as you're leaving, you step away from the door and the bouncers responding, but collide with a police officer who falls over backwards hitting their head on a kerb breaking their neck and they die.

It is perhaps worth pointing out that for anybody aged 21 or over convicted of murder of a police officer or prison officer in the course of their duty, the law already provides a starting point of a “whole life order” - i.e. life in prison without parole.

@BarristerSecret That would be hugely disproportionate, but my understanding is the campaign wants a possible starting point to be whole life for anyone of the age of criminal responsibility, to be applied to manslaugher only in extreme circumstances. Is that not workable (genuine question)?

It means that somebody who throws a single punch, not intending to cause injury but resulting in a police officer banging his head and dying (manslaughter), would get a whole life order, whereas someone who intentionally stabs a victim to death gets a minimum term of 25 years.

@Roblev0 @BO3673 @wastefighter @westrowhendo @BarristerSecret To clarify, I do not at all blame the judge or jury. They did they best they could with what they had to deal with I’m sure. I just support the Thames Valley statement that the system needs to be changed, as this is not justice.

@Roblev0 @BO3673 @wastefighter @westrowhendo @BarristerSecret That may be and I’m not usually a fire and brimstone person. But I’ve followed this case closely and do feel in this instance justice was not done. Life would have been appropriate. 10-16 years away is highly unlikely to instill a basic regard for human life.

Prompt publication of the sentencing remarks in today’s sentence of the killers of Pc Andrew Harper. Anybody with an interest in this case should read these.

@Roblev0 @BO3673 @wastefighter @westrowhendo @BarristerSecret ...illegal that they would have known there was a high risk of killing or seriously injuring an officer or member of the public. This sentence leaves me worried for the safety of society when they are released. 😔 2/2

@Roblev0 @BO3673 @wastefighter @westrowhendo @BarristerSecret Agree that that’s a bad starting point. Perhaps a better one is that it is a travesty of justice that our sentencing guidelines don’t allow for stiffer sentences in extreme cases like this where there was clear premeditated intent to do something so extremely dangerous and... 1/2