Exciting stuff from The Labour Party Nationalisation of rail. VAT on Public Schools. And more to come.

Why reviving more Nightingale courts distracts Government to divert public money from a tried and tested way of reducing record backlogs - using that money to pay for more criminal barristers to prosecute and defend criminal cases.
John Cooper of 25 Bedford Row explains to…

Oh Lord, #DrWho is going to be “fun”. BBC Breakfast BBC One

Crap Legal Accuracy Alert. This guys bands go right down to his crotch ffs! #thetwelve

Here is hoping that the horses alive today will be alive by the end of the weekend #GrandNational

Guests on my pond #Spring2024

Who drafts this legislation? Criminalised for excessively smelling on the street? Even worse, who scrutinises it? #crimebill #criminaljustice

As always, an amazing achievement, Oxford and Cambridge both make the final for the most relevant televised sports event of the year #boatrace

Looking forward to the Put the Clocks Forward Day Honours List on Saturday #honourslist

Lady Carr, Lord Chief Justice expresses some profoundly ill thought out and poorly reasoned ideas about reducing trial by jury. Has she considered which offences will have reduced sentence capacity? Domestic violence? Burglary? Or is this purely numbers driven? The CBA

John Cooper KC (@John_Cooper_QC) will be speaking on behalf of The CBA on Times Radio today at 2.40pm. The subject concerns the proposal by Lady Carr (The Lord Chief Justice) to scrap trials in certain categories of case in order to tackle the court backlog.

Hello Wednesday!

1pm Chris Hopson Christoph Lees🏥
1.15pm Sam Tarry MP arms🇮🇱
1.20pm Tim Farron sewage🚽
1.35pm Joanna Williams universities👩‍🎓
1.40pm Oliver Wright Sarah Ditum🗣️
2pm Tom Witherow Rayner🏠
2.10pm Sharleen Spiteri🎶
2.25pm Claire Irvin✈️
2.40pm @John_Cooper_QC

The suggestion by Carr to potentially reduce trial by jury to alleviate a Crown Court backlog of the Government’s making is lazy and ill informed in its analysis of the problem.We should expect better than this from “the country’s top judge” #criminaljustice

X regularly trying to get me to buy a new phone. This one is perfectly good, so if I suddenly disappear from what I still call Twitter, it has been fun. #twitter

So proud of João Gomes and Wolves Bellingham in his pocket #EnglandvBrazil

All hail to a big influence and champion of my writing at the Royal Court Theatre #EdwardBond Saved for Heaven #theatre who died this month. An inspirational, bold and fearless writer.

“Start my next Adventure “
“Begin a new Chapter “
Jeeeze
I hate the new #woke language.
Get on with life.
“Moving on” is enough

6 legal advisers!!!!!! #c4thejury Channel 4 I feel a gavel is just around the corner.

I presume #c4thejury is not meant to be an accurate depiction of court proceedings? Barristers do not wander around court: Judges do not take Verdicts. Witnesses do not sit in court pre their evidence. For 3 observations. Channel 4

Now a prosecution witness has been called who has been sitting at the back of court listening to the opening. Enough people please. #Thejurymurdertrial Channel 4