Max Hardy
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Barrister | TV legal consultant (Code of Silence, Mr Bates, Landscapers, Defending the Guilty) | Legal blogger & media commentator | @KalisherTrust Trustee
9BR Chambers, Gray’s Inn
Joined September 2009
If you've been horrified for the first time, or again, after watching #TheWrongMan and hearing Andrew Malkinson quietly & calmly describe the abomination he suffered you might want to read this blog I wrote after representing him with @edwardhenry1:
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The Economist now costs £10.99 for its print edition. Which isn’t very economical.
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RT @ahistoryinart: Muted in an array of greys and browns, Edward Seago's picture (1952) was painted from the north bank of the River Thames….
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RT @we_are_APPEAL: 🚨 We’re Hiring Trustees! 🚨. Join our passionate team and help fight miscarriages of justice. We have multiple positions….
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‘I beg your pardon.I never promised you a rose garden.Along with the sunshine.There's gotta be a little rain sometime.’.- The sun ain’t shining any more.
The newly redesigned Rose Garden, complete with cafe style tables and umbrellas. Very ‘Mar-A- Lago’ ish. Nice! 🇺🇸🫡
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Murderers have blood on their hands; when the state murders in revenge we all have blood on our hands. Killers debase themselves: killing them debases us.
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RT @ahistoryinart: Arthur Melville travelled to Venice in 1894. The city had long been a favourite subject for painters, but Melville found….
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London has a population of over 8 million people. If you need to go to a police station at night there will be 1 counter available for every million Londoners. THAT is why the criminal justice system is in crisis.
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Given that the Monarch is, on one analysis, the ultimate civil servant it's challenging to see how that reconciles with Labour's working class only policy. Although the King was the first in his family to go to university so perhaps that counts.
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RT @Barristerblog: .@legalhackette profiles the country's oldest practising criminal barrister, Nottingham's greyhound-loving, 90 y.o Noel….
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RT @longvictorian2: Pauline in the Yellow Dress (1944) by Herbert James Gunn (Scottish artist, lived 1893–1964). The artist’s wife. Her gla….
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This is how you get a gondola ride for the price of a coffee.
'Traghetto, Venice.' (1920) In 1962, William Russell Flint, a fine watercolourist, became one of only nine members of the Royal Academy to exhibit his work in the Diploma Gallery during his lifetime, nearly thirty years after being made a full Royal Academician in 1933.
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One last Peepo! to Allan Ahlberg whose books will forever surpass the frightful dross so often written for children today.
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Wonderful moment today as various barristers in court dress gazed from the court canteen window at a topless man sitting on a balcony opposite with eyebrows mutually raised at our respective appearances.
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Diminishing the right to jury trial is like 'just' charging £20 for an appointment with the GP.
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RT @TheCriminalBar: The Criminal Bar Association’s survey of Criminal Barristers’ views of the Leveson Review of the Criminal Courts, a Gov….
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