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Cat Rubens
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Senior Associate Solicitor in the Human Rights department @ Leigh Day, trustee @maxability2. Tweeting in a personal capacity. 👊⛰🌍
Nov 25 • 35 tweets • 6 min read
1. I don’t often tweet about my personal life, but on 1st November, my mum Jane was hit by a large vehicle as a pedestrian in St. Louis, USA. She suffered a severe brain injury & remains in a coma in hospital.

Here's Jane & me in happier times. Image
Image 2. This thread is aimed squarely at my mum’s travel insurer, AXA, and their failure to take account of my mum’s best interests when considering repatriating her home to the UK.

@axa @axainsurance @AxaUK
Jun 27, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
As @MoJGovUK publishes its draft #VictimsBill, it's a good opportunity to review how rarely learning disabled & autistic victims of crime see any "justice".

@CommonsJustice is scrutinising the Bill this week

Thread 🧵 1/ The purpose of the Bill is to improve "the end-to-end support for victims of crime" so that they can cope & recover from crime, and engage with the criminal justice system (CJS).

Full draft Bill here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Mar 26, 2022 • 26 tweets • 8 min read
A short thread 🧵 about Samuel & Jacob's case, and the use of #restraint against children with autism, learning disabilities or #SEND.

The parents Annie & Mark aren't on Twitter but want to raise as much awareness as possible.

leighdaylaw.info/3tHEuoZ 1. We brought a civil & #HumanRightsAct case against Kent County Council for the use of mechanical restraint chairs against Samuel & Jacob while they were at a specialist primary school for autistic children, Five Acre Woods School.
Mar 25, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Pleased to speak to @bbcsoutheast about the experiences of my clients Sam & Jacob who were subjected to mechanical restraints at an autism specialist school.

Story here from 1:17

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

@ICARSBanRandS
@CBFdn
@PABSScot Mechanical restraint chairs used in this manner are inhumane, degrading & traumatic for children.

@shakespeare_d

Fully support #harryslaw
Feb 3, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The consultation by @MoJGovUK on 'Delivering Justice for Victims' closes today (thread 🧵) :

gov.uk/government/con…

@CBFdn @mencap_charity @AQuinnUnbroken This is an opportunity to reflect on the dismal position faced by learning disabled and / or autistic people who are victims of crime & abuse. Far too often, there is no justice in the criminal justice system for them.