Tom Short

MPs! An important event on how our elections are at grave risk from foreign interference while Russia continues a campaign of sabotage across Europe. Tonight: Committee Room 11, 7pm. Please join @alexsobel & @peterjukes & the star of the Sergei & the Westminster Spy podcast

A complaint made by @LibertyHQ and @PrivacyInt, represented by Leigh Day's Tessa Gregory and @Tom_Short_LD, over the legality of government ‘backdoor’ access to Apple data will be heard by a tribunal. leighdaylaw.info/3R2R5xQ

New - Why I am challenging Yvette Cooper’s ‘secret back door’ order against Apple’s encryption computerweekly.com/opinion/Why-I-… via @computerweekly From Gus Hosein @privacyint #Apple #encryption #ADP #investigatorypowers

BREAKING Liberty, @privacyint, @benwizner & Gus Hosein are challenging the Gov’s SECRET data access order to Apple The Gov wants to create a back door to users’ private iCloud data. This could put BILLIONS of people's personal data at risk of hacking and access by foreign Gov’s

. @privacyint @libertyhq Gus Hosein and Ben Wizner are challenging the Home Secretary’s apparent decision to secretly force Apple to give the UK Government access to users’ secured data stored on iCloud. Represented by Tessa Gregory and @tom_short_ld leighdaylaw.info/3FqAyky

The Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory has found that Tamil Sri Lankan asylum seekers held for over three years on Diego Garcia were unlawfully detained, @BBCNews reports. Solicitors @tom_short_ld, Tessa Gregory, @ClairePowell94 and Josh Munt represent. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

NEWS: Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse of rat poisons ☠️ Our new report, Collateral Damage, shows a Government scheme isn't working for wildlife. Today it's reported in @newscientist Read it here: newscientist.com/article/245564… @ChrisGPackham @RuthTingay @MarkAvery

Asylum seekers who have been held for more than three years on the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia will be offered the opportunity to transfer to the UK @tom_short_LD, @ClairePowell94, Tessa Gregory and Josh Munt represent. leighdaylaw.info/4hzUFLW

As reported by the @guardian, asylum seekers who have been stranded on the British Indian Ocean Territory of Diego Garcia for three years will be offered entry to the UK. Tessa Gregory, @tom_short_ld and Josh Munt represent theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n…

Sri Lankan asylum seekers stranded on Diego Garcia are represented by Tessa Gregory and ⁦@tom_short_ld⁩ in their claim that they are being unlawfully detained on the island bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The British Indian Ocean Territory Court of Appeal has upheld the granting of bail to 47 asylum seekers stranded for nearly three years on military base island of Diego Garcia. @tom_short_ld @ClairePowell94 and Tessa Gregory represent leighday.co.uk/news/news/2024…

Thx to those donating to bring the body of #KrisMaharaj back to UK for burial after 38 yrs of Injustice on death row & in prison. Undertakers are very understanding but it's an expensive business, vital for his loyal wife Marita, paypal.com/donate?campaig… We'll still exonerate him!

Leigh Day's Carolin Ott was interviewed on @SkyNews about Agnes Wanjiru, whose family have called on the Defence Secretary to pursue justice for her alleged murder by British soldiers in Kenya 12 years ago. Watch here youtube.com/watch?v=4jN27k…

Tonight somewhere out there are five cells with sleepless people in them . Elsewhere there are empty beds , empty homes and broken hearts . Fear and tears . Anger and confusion . A bunch of good people whose lives have just been smashed by injustice . We hold you in our dreams .

Fighting for a liveable planet - 5 years in prison Pumping shit into ecosystems - £2m plus a £727k bonus

The decision to allow an oil drilling operation in the Lincolnshire Wolds has been quashed following a concession from the Secretary of State weeks after a landmark Supreme Court judgment on fossil fuel production. @juliaaeriksen and Ricardo Gama represent leighdaylaw.info/3xIvK6R

Lawyers have written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy asking him to urgently consider the plight of a group of asylum seekers stranded on Diego Garcia and to intervene to avoid a diplomatic row with the US. @tom_short_ld and Tessa Gregory represent

. @tom_short_ld and Tessa Gregory have asked the Foreign Secretary to urgently consider the plight of Tamil asylum seekers stranded on Diego Garcia after a hearing on the island was abandoned at short notice following US government intervention. leighdaylaw.info/3W0M6Q3

"The conditions on the island are deplorable and we are extremely concerned about the impact of this delay on the rapidly deteriorating mental health and wellbeing of our vulnerable and traumatised clients." - @tom_short_ld rozenberg.substack.com/p/us-blocks-br…

US blocks British judge She is told she would be refused food if she visits Diego Garcia New post, free to read: rozenberg.substack.com/p/us-blocks-br…