It has been a career highlight and a privilege for me to work with @HumanRightsCtte on five detailed reports over a year. An amazing team of parliamentarians and staff who have managed to scrutinise the human rights impacts of the pandemic “live” as they happened. No small feat
I have worked on five reports but I think there have been at least 7. 7 reports during the pandemic - many evidence sessions as well. And govt has listened (sometimes) and responded. Kudos to the committee which is such an important part of our human rights framework
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The one people will be most interested in I imagine is allowing people attending the G7 conference to avoid hotel quarantine and self-isolation
I haven't tweeted for a while on the hotel quarantine regulations - I have been doing quite a bit of work relating to what is happening in hotel quarantine which I hope to be able to speak about in general terms soon. Some pretty extraordinary things happening in these hotels.
The problem is that because Twitter allows you to set up an endless number of accounts without verification the block and report function becomes a bit redundant and useless against determined harassers
I know that other people with large followings get this far more than I do - particularly women and people of colour - so I feel a bit awkward even mentioning it, but it has got to a stage where he is contacting institutions I am giving lectures to and god knows who else
I'm thinking of forming a Bar Super League where I get to argue all the big cases against a small fixed list of superstar barristers. Also I get £10m to redecorate my home office and buy some really cool screens and a nice chair. I can't see any possible downside (for me)
Who's in? I'm Chairperson by the way
Before you all start moaning there will be benefits to the whole Bar because I am going to give away all my old court dress and books once I'm done with them
I had this somewhat bizarre but lovely experience meeting Helen McCrory. She was the lead in Deep Blue Sea at the National and was on the northern line on her way in, as was I (going to Temple). I was banging onto a friend about some issue I had in a case, obviously too loud.
On the platform at Embankment up came this tiny woman wearing a tracksuit and baseball cap. “Hello, I’m an actress and couldn’t help overhearing your conversation...”. Turned out she was about to appear in an ITV show playing a human rights lawyer. She very graciously asked if I