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In case my bookshelves are scrutinised during this week’s video link court hearings, I should confess that it’s possible that I may be harbouring - and may even have read - some books with which I don’t completely 100% agree.
(Full disclosure: there may also be a shelf of Russian language translations of Stories of The Law and How It’s Broken, the contents of which I can’t vouch for as my Cyrillic is not the sharpest)
To save time, I’m afraid I won’t be responding to anyone incapable of understanding the distinction between reading a book and writing an approving foreword for a book, thank you have a nice day.
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As well as being breathtakingly stupid, this appears to amount to a clear breach of the regulations. Unless anybody has any suggestions as to how “Performing the conga” might be said to amount to a reasonable excuse for leaving the house.
Whatever you think of the government’s overall strategy, their early fears that, as a country, we’d quickly tire of simple measures designed to minimise the risk of death to ourselves and those we love, are proving grimly well-founded.

We are a nation of idiots.
PITCH: Replace the daily briefing hosted by Dominic Raab with a daily public shaming hosted by Cat Deeley. The public vote on their favourite out of ten videos of idiots defying the law. The winner has to do everyone’s shopping for the next day.
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The Home Office has responded to my earlier tweet by claiming that I have said something “completely untrue”.

I take defamatory attacks on my character seriously.

So let’s break down what has happened here. [THREAD]
On 29 April 2020, the Home Office sent this letter to the President of the First-Tier Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber. This is the senior judge responsible for overseeing immigration and asylum cases in the First-Tier Tribunal.
What does the Home Office wish the judge to know?

Well, it ostensibly wants to discuss “the high level of bail hearings taking place recently” in immigration proceedings, and the approach that “presenting officers” (legal officers who represent the Home Office) are taking.
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I can reassure Mr Hitchens that this “change of great importance” is no such thing.

Juries have for decades been directed that they must be “sure” of guilt in order to convict. “Beyond reasonable doubt” has not been used for as long as I have been in practice.
As for the risk that juries are somehow applying a lesser standard, again, this is just fanciful. Walk into any Crown Court trial and you will hear defence advocates drone on about the importance of the standard of proof, the meaning of “sure” and how it is the highest standard.
Finally (for now - the silliness keeps hitting me in waves), jurors cannot choose unilaterally to “stand aside”. Volunteering yourself as too incompetent to serve on a jury just isn’t an option.
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