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Jan 16 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Some observations about this very short (two clauses) bill...
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Image It is regrettable that the bill’s title refers to ‘joint enterprise’ and its supporters continue to describe this form of liability as ‘guilt by association’. As the Supreme Court observed in Jogee at [77]:
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Nov 18, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Some thoughts on the mooted claims for compensation from Everton following yesterday's points deduction (NB I am not a sports lawyer and welcome input from anyone who is).
1/12 The PL referred Everton to an independent Commission under E.51 of the PL Handbook because it calculated (correctly, as the Commission later found) that Everton had exceeded the permitted losses of £105m for the 2021/22 season by £19.5m.
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Jul 29, 2022 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
Some thoughts on the failure of Allison Bailey's complaint against Stonewall, sparked by @Broonjunior's thoughtful tweets on the subject yesterday.
1/21 The complaint was made under s. 111 of the Equality Act 2010, which provides that it is unlawful for a person (SW) to instruct, cause, or induce another person (GCC) to discriminate against a third person (AB).
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Jul 22, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Some thoughts on the recent Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust case. The judgment and reasons are here:
1/12 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62cff057… Good summary from Sex Matters here (my only quibble is that we don't know whether C was in fact naked from the waist down in the communal area because, as with the abuse C is said to have experienced, it wasn't something the ET had to decide.)
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Jul 6, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Just a couple of quick points re Forstater v CGD, as I'm sure there'll be plenty of detailed analysis to follow over the next few days and weeks.
1/6 First point: there's a line doing the rounds that this was somehow not a win for @MForstater because "60% of her claims were dismissed". This is nonsense and I defy anyone to find a practising employment lawyer who would put their name to it. Why?
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Jun 27, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Geeky planning law follow-up re the Pride flags on Regent Street: many people have commented that they would find the rainbow flag less objectionable. The original rainbow flag was designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978. It looked like this:
1/10 In 1979, Baker designed the 6 colour version which became the dominant version until the late 2010s:
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Dec 10, 2021 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
Why parties on Crown property were not exempt from the Covid regs: a response to @SBarrettBar's blog for the Spectator.

1/22 We start with the general principle that a statutory provision does not bind ‘the Crown’, i.e. ministers and those who work for the govt, unless it is expressly stated to do so or it is necessary for it to do so. The principle is well explained here:
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Nov 15, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Encouraging a child with gender dysphoria to wait and see before embarking on life-changing medical treatment is not remotely the same as trying to "convert" those who are same-sex attracted.
/1 That is why many people — including gay, lesbian and bisexual barristers — oppose Stonewall's push to ban "trans conversion therapy".
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Nov 4, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
"Orwellian"? Seriously? I can't be alone among employment lawyers in thinking that some of the criticisms made of this process have an air of unreality about them. Let's compare and contrast the procedure Owen Paterson faced with a typical employer's disciplinary procedure.
/1 OP: the Standards Commissioner writes to him setting out the allegations against him and inviting him to respond. Typical employee: called into an investigatory meeting with no advance warning of the allegations.
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Jun 9, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Howard Beckett and miners' compensation: a short 🧵 The ST reported in 2016 that Howard Beckett was fined £5,000 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in 2009 for misconduct in connection with miners' compensation. Beckett was, at the time, a partner in the Wirral firm of Beckett, Bemrose and Hagan.
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Jun 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The government's award of a contract worth >£500k to Public First Ltd to conduct focus groups was unlawful on the ground of apparent bias. The govt was entitled, in the exceptional circs of a pandemic, to award the contract directly i.e. without notice or competition, but the absence of competition made it all the more important for the govt to use a fair process for selecting Public First.
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