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The PM tells today’s Telegraph that it is “perverse” that Shamima Begum is eligible for legal aid to challenge the govt stripping her citizenship.

Given that @BorisJohnson is no stranger to plagiarising my blog, here’s one he’s welcome to have for free: thesecretbarrister.com/2019/04/15/sha…
From today’s Telegraph interview.

It only seems “odd and perverse” to grant legal aid to British citizens who have their citizenship deprived by the government if you have neither understanding of nor respect for the rule of law. Image
(Re plagiarism, ICYMI I’m referring to this: newsweek.com/boris-johnson-…)
Apparently the link above doesn’t work. Try this: mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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Following yesterday’s first episode with @Channel4News, a quick follow-up to the @MoJGovUK’s response.

The MoJ said: “Crown Court waiting times were at their lowest since 2014 prior to the pandemic.”

This is dishonest.

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While it is right to say that the backlog peaked at over 53,000 cases in 2014, and started to fall, it increased sharply again at the end of 2018, and was continuing to grow well before Covid-19.
The length of time between the date of an alleged offence and the completion of a trial in the Crown Court has soared. The way the MoJ claim that “waiting times have fallen” is by including in their figures the cases where defendants plead guilty - ie where there is no trial.
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There has been quite a bit of coverage today about the so-called “rough sex defence”, which the government is claiming credit for abolishing.

This is a difficult and sensitive subject, but I think it’s worth a brief [THREAD] looking at the truth behind the headlines.
The first thing to note is that there isn’t actually any such thing in law as a “rough sex defence” to murder - or indeed, to any form of assault causing injury.

It is a long established principle of the common law that a person cannot legally consent to being injured or killed.
This has been confirmed by the Court of Appeal in several high-profile cases, most famously (for law students) the case of R v Brown in 1993. This involved the prosecution for ABH of a group of men who inflicted injury on each other during consensual sado-masochistic sex.
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Trials are how criminal barristers make a living. We’ve earned nothing for months. The best thing for us financially would be to support the govt’s plan to replace jury trials with trials by judge & magistrates

We vote against our own interests because it’s the right thing to do
Basically, I’m very proud of my profession. And I think we’re all entitled to be. Even though many of us are struggling to pay rent or mortgage, we are prepared to go without for even longer in order to defend the justice system’s first principles.
In the words of the eponymous hero in his powerhouse speech in Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie:

“That’s marvellous. Well that’s what I think, anyway.”
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