SpinningHugo

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    Jun 12

    New Post May's Duty to Resign

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    Oct 5

    Lawyers on Twitter, please can you check if you've been blocked by ? Please RT.

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  3. Oct 6

    Would have been a bit odd to make him a life peer, when the 'lords' in the UKSC have only a courtesy title.

    Sir Ian Burnett will be the first lord chief justice of England and Wales since the 19th century not to be a lord:
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    Oct 6

    I ♥ LGx

    121 replies 5,438 retweets 17,877 likes
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    Oct 5

    Comprehensive new study on the effects of tuition fees

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    Oct 5

    Have we seen the last of the legally-qualified lord chancellors? And does it matter? My column for

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    Oct 5

    The nightmare assumption in the public finances causing a nightmare for the Treasury

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    Oct 5

    May I ask, Andrew, when you last attended a Crown Court to watch a judge passing sentence? And how many times in total you have done so?

    No. Judges say they agree but do opposite, fearing tabloids. Change needs top judges to practise what they preach in Garrick/dinner parties
    19 replies 55 retweets 182 likes
  9. Oct 5

    This is mildly amusing.

    Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling can't keep it together in their funniest interview yet via
  10. Oct 5
    Replying to

    Lord Hope's Stair lecture. Also interesting on judicial appointments.

  11. Oct 5

    "Occasionally there would be the noise of a rusty gate swinging open, and it would be the Lord Chancellor laughing at his own joke."

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  12. Oct 4

    ie for threatening to cause a hullabaloo. "Breach of the peace is an offence inconsistent with the rule of law." Discuss.

    Seems Mr Brodkin was arrested for "breach of the peace" - an ancient law and a very elastic concept -
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    Oct 4

    If male writers were marketed in the same way as female writers. Via Christopher Hamilton-Emery.

    253 replies 8,643 retweets 19,255 likes
  14. Oct 4

    Eden? She didn't personally cause Brexit.

    Theresa May will probably go down as Britain's worst post-war prime minister. But she gave us two unforgettable moments.
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    Oct 4

    Those in born in 1980s have only half the wealth by age 31 of those born in 1970s. Remarkable reversal.

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    Oct 4

    When ppl say there's no way Brexit can be stopped, I say: 'Look at the quality of the ppl trying to accomplish it.' Today was case in point.

    83 replies 1,012 retweets 2,495 likes
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    Oct 4
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    Yes, and in decades since then, growth in stock has outstripped growth in population ...

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    Oct 4

    Net increase in housing stock during the 1950s-70s housebuilding boom was lower than new supply levels as large no. of homes were demolished

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  19. Oct 4

    The pursuit of the millennium: A strange disease has taken hold of British politics via

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  20. Oct 4

    The last paragraph is obviously true. Indeed, trivially so. The big question is why no major party is able to offer this.

    Tackling housing crisis: govt should build more houses, reform planning, & tax property properly. Me in
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    Oct 3

    Your Honour, my learned friend makes a point I can't really argue against so I'm just going to block him at this juncture.

    16 replies 36 retweets 128 likes

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