My first post in ages & on Earth Day! I'm celebrating with @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social at the launch of the Climate Guide 🎉 Two ways to join:
🌍 In person @cornerstonebarristers.com from 5pm (we still have spaces, sign up here lnkd.in/eS6YPVsQ)
🌏 Online from 5:20pm (register here lnkd.in/euqhH52w)
This letter and its more than 3,000 signatories demonstrate the unequivocal principled and practical opposition to the restriction of jury trials from not only the Bar, but the legal profession as a whole...
#justiceneedsjuries
Happy 100th birthday, #SirDavidAttenborough. 🎉
Thank you for a lifetime spent helping us see, understand and care for this wonderful world we all call home. 🌍
Chair of the Bar, @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social gives opening remarks at today's Ukraine law day. She explains the importance of our cross-border collaboration 4 years on from the start of the conflict.
The usual erudite and thoughtful questions from @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social
Always a pleasure to discuss law (and a little bit of politics) with him.
#justiceneedsjuries
As a proud trustee of @wwf.org.uk I add my thanks to #sirdavidattenborough
What a life! What a century!
Happy Birthday, Sir David.
This excellent guide demystifies terms/ acronyms. Climate literacy is essential. How else for informed conversations? I am encouraging the Bar - across all jurisdictions- to engage/further engage.Estelle Dehon KC is co-chair of the Bar Council’s Nature and Climate panel.
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Last week our Chair @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social had a very constructive meeting with Sir Mark Rowley, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, covering violence against women & girls (including abuse through harmful practices), rape and serious sexual offence (RASSO) cases, delays pre-court and AI.
Our Chair @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social welcomes to Jim Morris CB DSO as our new Chief Executive his first #BarCouncil meeting tonight!
www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/bar...
On the govt defeating a specialist sexual offences and domestic abuse amendment today.
Hopefully it will be brought back at report stage.
www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/gov...
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Jim Morris CB DSO will take over from Malcolm Cree CBE in March 2026
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The government has rejected calls to amend the Courts and Tribunals Bill and bring in specialist rape courts, despite it being a Labour manifesto pledge.
More than 300 KCs and 22 retired judges are among the 3,236 legal professionals who have signed our letter calling on the Prime Minister to stop the government's jury trial proposal ahead of a parliamentary debate on new legislation to restrict jury trials today.🧵
To mark #SirDavidAttenborough's 100th birthday, we come together to celebrate a man who has dedicated his life to championing our natural world. 🌍
Thank you, Sir David, from all of us.
And here it is! The Cornerstone Climate Guide - Key Concepts and Definitions is live 🌍 🎉 Thank you so much @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social and The Bar Council of England and Wales for your support in promoting climate literacy across the Bar and beyond.
cornerstonebarristers.com/the-cornerst...
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As presaged in the King’s speech, the government’s Courts and Tribunals Bill was reintroduced in the House of Commons yesterday. Will the government’s plans to limit jury trial ever reach the House of Lords? Listen to my interview with the chair of the bar.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/judges-or-...
