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Tricky lying foreigners trick Supreme Court into allowing them to stay in UK...
Legal research can be dull but the main facts are right there on the net for journos to seeThe Daily Fail Heil er I mean Mail today reports on two awful Albanians who tricked the Supreme Court into...
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Why do two people get different sentences for the same offence?
Mitigation can significantly reduce a drink driving sentenceThere is a, very minor, story in today’s Daily Mail about a businessman sentenced for drink driving that has led to quite a few people...
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Guilt: the difference between criminal and civil “convictions”
Royal Courts of JusticeThere’s been an argument between police officers and lawyers over the past couple of days on Twitter over whether an acquittal means somebody is actually innocent versus whether...
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Pardons for suffragettes
A suffragette being arrested in 1914We are approaching the one hundredth anniversary of women first winning the right to vote, albeit in 1918 only land-owning women aged over 30 were to be given the...
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Some thoughts on gun control
Semi automatic rifles for sale at a gun show in TexasSo, the USA has a problem with guns. Or, to be more accurate, America loves guns but has a problem with them being used to kill innocent people,...
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The cost of saving your family
The Family CourtThis is a blog about legal aid, but first I want to set out the facts of a case.A few weeks ago, the Court of Appeal heard the case of M (A Child) [2018] EWCA Civ 240 in which a mother...
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Can a court take my car after a drink driving conviction?
Courts have wide powers in dealing with people convicted of drink drivingMost people realise that once they are convicted of drink driving the court will take away their driving licence for at least...
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Video evidence
My typical view of the AXON websiteLegal practice, at least contentious legal practice, is all about evidence. One side brings a case by putting to the court and their opponent some evidence that they...
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What's so wrong about hacking an MPs website?
Kemi Badenoch MPKemi Badenoch, Conservative MP for Saffron Walden and, bizarrely for an MP with just a few months experience, Conservative Party vice-chairman with responsibility for selecting...
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Sentencing drink drivers: analysis of the Ant McPartlin case
Ant McPartlinI haven’t blogged about drink driving for a while, which is a bit of a shame for me since drink driving cases form the bulk of my case load. So, with the conviction and sentencing of Ant...
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Off to war
Men of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1915The UK government recently launched airstrikes against targets in Syria alongside the US and France. The result was a lot of criticism from people in the...
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National Identity Cards
A mock up of a British National Identity CardFollowing the Second World War, Britain called for help from the people of the Commonwealth to come and fill thousands of job vacancies. Many answered the...
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Is there twice as much violent crime in the UK versus the USA?
The tweet from Charlie KirkI came across a screenshot of a Twitter post while on Facebook this morning. The original post now has 11,000 retweets and 23,000 likes on Twitter. As you can see from the...
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Reporting on criminal cases
To what extent is justice aided or hindered by press restriction?Since the arrest and imprisonment of Tommy Robinson for contempt of court there has been a lot of complaints from members of the public...
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Why people hate lawyers
Lawyer jokes are the best Our society flourishes because it is built upon a system of rules that apply to everyone and which make our society a safe and predictable place to do business… at least they...
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Guilty until proven innocent?
Behind this doors: trials defendants are excluded from attendingA couple of years ago the government introduced a new system of bringing prosecutions in the magistrates’ court, called the Single...
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Does the current law protect police drivers who use force to stop motorcyclists?
Does the law protect police drivers from prosecution? The Metropolitan Police – that’s the one’s in London if you didn’t know – have released a video showing their officers using police cars to ram...
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Challenging forensic evidence is crucial in criminal trials
As police investigate forensic experts it is ever more important to challenge scientific evidence You may, or may not, know that I specialise in motoring law and that my practice has a particular...
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Dr Evil - the demon tattooist of Wolverhampton
Dr EvilBrendan McCarthy, who self-styles himself Dr Evil, has entered a guilty plea to causing grievous bodily harm on several people. There’s nothing exceptional about that, except that all of Dr...
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Above is the video of an assault on a police officer. As the video explains, the police saw an incident as somebody was ejected from a bar and went to see what was happening. As PC GIlder was dealing...
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Drink driving
Drink driving law is more complex than many appreciateOne thing I have found since specialising in motoring lawis that it is an area that is poorly understood by many people, criminal lawyers and...
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Driving without insurance
Insurance is a contract that remains in force until it expires or is cancelled As you may, or may not, know I specialise in motoring law and most of my work involves defending people accused of drink...
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Plight of the Oligarchs
Vladmir Putin and Alisher UsmanovSince Russia invaded Ukraine, we have all suddenly become far more aware of the government’s power to impose sanctions on individuals and businesses that they believe...
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