Lucy Garrett KC

@Dam_McCarthy @mcdermottkc_ Wow. It seems that you were disbarred for dishonesty. barstandardsboard.org.uk/disciplinary_f… and lawgazette.co.uk/news/public-ac…

@mcdermottkc_ I was a pupil at Doughty Street chambers. I found him creepy, vacuous, weird and dishonest. I think anyone who is being honest (who isn’t part of a weird lobby interest group) would say the same.

I have never met Keir Starmer (as far as I am aware) but I know a good number of people who know him well. My impression is of someone who is in politics for the right reasons … essentially to improve life for others. He doesn’t get everything right … 1/

Here’s the letter reported in this Times article (share token). Good Law Project’s conduct in this affair has been reprehensible. I hope the minister will at least acknowledge as much. I’m pessimistic. thetimes.com/article/95e0f1…

@Joanna__Hardy @atomicjoy They would definitely be full, we do it now in civil cases and it is excellent.

@atomicjoy No. They’d be full. Just not with the trial listed in that particular court. At any given time there are trials (long) and interlocutory hearings (shorter: pleas, mentions, bail, sentence, proceeds of crime, appeals). The court would still be utilised. Just not with the trial.

I could literally reduce the Crown Court backlog in 9 steps starting tomorrow. And precisely none of it would involve tampering with jury trials.

@Joanna__Hardy I had no idea you don't do this in crime. Normal in commercial cases.

I won’t trouble you with ten because it sounds counter-productive but, for anyone still interested, the option of a 4-day trial week with a 1-day ‘free’ listing day for other matters (for judge and counsel) would actually speed up the flow of the entire system considerably.

@dj_forrester It's the epigraph to To Kill A Mockingbird and it's from an essay by Charles Lamb.

True. Printed as a preface in Jane Gardam’s “Old Filth”.

@helenlewis I absolutely love it. It's like The Spire on steroids, on heroin, on LSD.

"The world’s largest cruise ships would glide through a gate as tall as London’s Shard over a deepwater harbour carved from the desert. Suspended above it, like a chandelier, a 30-storey glass-and-steel building would hang from the arch..." Link here: ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-lin…

Thoroughly enjoyed this piece on the mad physics-defying boondoggle that is (or rather might never be) The Line in Saudi Arabia. Birds? Screw them! Gravity? Not our problem. Money? Oh . . .

@tonkolili And the response attached.

Look at these idiots! There’s a crisis in the country & capital requiring a concerted response. Yet what worries them? Their integrity. Someone needs to tell them. In forever fighting the mayor, rather than working with her for the common good, they long ago lost their integrity

Very sweet. youtube.com/watch?v=wgapmd…

@mrianleslie @PrivateEyeNews AND they had to admit at the end it's great. One to frame surely?

I made it into @PrivateEyeNews! No higher accolade.

@John__Phipps thank you, this was utterly brilliant

The LRB sent Rosa to Crufts and she wrote an incredible piece lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

Knife crime and youth violence have been a problem for years, long before smart phones and Andrew Tate. The latest discourse - following Adolescence - is as predictable as it's depressing, as many choose to ignore the facts and head to where they're comfortable (1/n).

The waters have been sufficiently muddied on this platform by people selling snake oil about The Alien Enemies Act and these deportations to El Salvador, so a few important clarifying points: 1. We don't know who got deported. We literally don't have their names or allegations against them. No evidence has been presented. We know close to nothing about them, except the admin's claims they were here illegally and are gang members. 2. No court cases have happened. There was no trial or hearing or evidence. Some Venezuelans legally seeking asylum here have claimed their family members were deported despite having no affiliation with the Tren de Agua gang, or despite having scheduled court appearances for their asylum cases they were planning to attend. Obviously, if we deported Venezuelans legally seeking asylum to one of the harshest prisons in the world in El Salvador without any due process, that'd be very bad. 3. ICE officials have said in sworn testimony in court that some of the deportees had not been accused of any crimes. They also said they determined they were members of TdA through investigative methods like financial transactions or victim testimonies, but are yet to present any of that evidence. 4. The Alien Enemies Act has been declared just 3 times ever: The War of 1812, World War I, and World War II. In each of those cases Congress declared war, which is constitutionally their power alone (not the president's). 5. The AEA is triggered “Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government.” Again: No declared war here. But also, the TdA gang is not a foreign nation or government. So it's not just that Trump needs Congress to declare war, he needs them to declare war against Venezuela. All of the above are just the basic facts of this story. Trump is going to lose this in court and his admin will almost certainly comply. No judges are going to be impeached for following the law despite the ridiculous theater from members of the House (it takes two-thirds in the Senate to convict and remove a judge, anyway) and Judge Boasberg is another well-respected member of the judiciary, not some radical leftist activist. People on this website are feeding you ridiculous, absurd, over the top nonsense. Go outside.

International Women's Day 2025 thread. In Darlington this man thought that the public sector equality duty requires censoring of gender critical speech to "foster good relations". 🙄

@drewsparkley @DavidPGCSE @madameask Hah like that iron triangle thing - for anything you want, you can have any two of cheap, fast and high quality.

@DavidPGCSE @lucifee @madameask You can have cheap and light...oh no sorry you can't

Mad how Avatar, the highest grossing and most successful movie of all time, has literally no cultural footprint and no ongoing points of reference or debate. There aren’t even any notable quotes or memes. It’s like a billion dollars just appeared and then instantly disappeared

@drewsparkley @madameask @DavidPGCSE I do construction disputes and make jokes about unobtanium whenever possible. But I am quoting The Core, a truly excellent film which Avatar obvs copied.

@madameask @DavidPGCSE My father-in-law is a materials scientist. He is insanely gifted. We were watching Avatar together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to make unobtainium today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”

1/ I wanted to write something about this surrogacy /adoption case involving two 70 ish old women. I know that most legal judgments are hard going. Here I think the Rt Hon Sir Andrew McFarlane has the general public as his intended audience. judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…

@DavidMuttering I was forced to put this blanket down

"I have representations to make regarding the level of heating..."

@BristOliver eeeeek!

@Rave_Gahan @BertDalziel I like that one a lot

@BertDalziel Cazalet Chronicles. Unputdownable.