Adam King
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Criminal Barrister | Occasional writing https://t.co/Xu7aWapd3D
London, England
Joined March 2016
My piece in @unherd this morning, on Starmer's Free Speech problem, the police, the judges, and the case of my former client Lucy Connolly. Link đ in replies.
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Peter Gay on the decline of Rome but he could be writing about the twenty-first century: "swarming with superstitions ... a world marked by severe social dislocation, the disappearance of local loyalties, the devastating contrasts of shameless luxury with abject poverty..."
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This is wonderful. Iâd never seen any footage of Wodehouse before.
PG Wodehouse, born on this day 15th October 1881, speaking about the imbecile in his department when he worked in a bank. Recorded in 1974 when he was 93 years old, he sounds exactly as the author of the Jeeves and Wooster books should.
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At least he didnât say anything *really* inflammatory, like âPut the Zios in the ground for all I careâ.
âA chant that weâve been workshopping in Oxfordâ: âGaza, Gaza, make us proud, Put the Zios in the ground.â Bridget Phillipson has a great candidate here from yesterdayâs London hate march to lead her campus antisemitism training. Britainâs elite education.
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BTP on R4 this morning said they canât waste copsâ time watching hours of CCTV. But surely AI could be used - very cheaply - to scan long periods of CCTV for the moment a bike is moved.
British Transport Police has now LEGALISED bike theft. They're saying they won't investigate bike thefts at stations where the bike has been left for more than two hours. That's basically ALL bikes left by commuters. The police MUST change course.
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This law is going to be a nightmare for every politician. Hereâs why ->
thecritic.co.uk
As Britain gradually wakes up to the consequences of living under a blanket of well-meaning but loosely worded legislation, the feel-good policies continue to wind their way through Parliament.
The Hillsborough Law stands as a powerful legacy of the families who fought for justice. Â We owe it to future generations to ensure such a tragedy is never repeated. Â I promised my government would act. Weâve done exactly that.
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Truth in this. What % of people, if you scoured their Whatsapps, might be arrested under s.127 Communications Act? Just needs something police can say is "grossly offensive" - so any meme or joke transgressing progressive speech codes. Private communication no defence. 20%? 50%?
the modus operandi of the british state is to design legislation such that anyone can be arrested for something at any time. itâs the legislative equivalent of getting epstein dirt on every citizen
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If only MPs could pass even more laws with even less thought.
Utterly ridiculous. 12 votes in the Commons tonight means 3 hours of tedious trudging through voting lobbies. What a total waste of time and energy when MPs could do it in 3 minutes with a modern voting system. Itâs long past time to drag Parliament into the 21st century.
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Important not to lose sight of the real victims here: the Metropolitan Police Service.
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Could this be the most insane speech crime arrest yet? Government and state institutions seem to be moving into full sabotage and self-harm mode. They've been smashing things up for decades of course, but there's a new desperation to recent acts of destruction.
This is ridiculous and a complete waste of police time. The police only respond to 1 in 5 reported shoplifting offences, but deployed 5 armed officers to arrest a comedian over three tweets. We desperately need to end this nonsense and go after actual criminals.
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From the Crime and Policing Bill. "Cuckooing". There's something so depressingly lightweight, so very Yookay, about putting a word like that in a statute. It's a crap and uninformative analogy, popularised by the police about ten years ago.
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Bleak!
A criminal case with allegations dating back to 2018 finally reaches trial, but can't happen today due to a catalogue of failures: - Prosecutor is on holiday - Even if here, he's so old he can't travel into London - OIC & reviewing lawyer can't be contacted
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Weird and nasty. A proper country doesn't pay others to house its native criminals. Whatever needs to be done with our "10,000 worst paedos and murderers" needs to be done here.
EXCL: Nigel Farage will tomorrow vow to banish Britain's 10,000 worst paedos and murderers to serve prison sentences in third party countries, such as El Salvador The Reform boss said: "If youâre a criminal, we are putting you on notice."
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Philippe Sands just wrote a book in which he admitted he refused to represent Pinochet because he didn't like him. Not a single eyelid was bat at the Temple.
Barristers are strictly forbidden - in any case - from refusing to represent a client on the grounds that they find the client objectionable, or that the public might find a client objectionable. Anybody telling you otherwise is lying to you.
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Great work Tom!
Pleased to have acted for two of the defendants in this successful appeal against conviction, with @LukeSGittos1986
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Before she became a judge, Ingrid Simler QC welcomed Jolyon Maugham to her former chambers. What an extraordinary and repellent way for him to now write of a former colleague and friend to some anon who insults the justices of the UK Supreme Court as âcrustaceansâ and âfuckwitsâ
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Advocates of free speech must defend Linekerâs tweets from this type of investigation; being offensive is not a crime. https://t.co/saLP2EsPj8
telegraph.co.uk
Exclusive: Complaints made by members of public against BBC presenter, with one saying shared video caused significant distress
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Nice piece by @ShipleyWrites on the tragic wrongful conviction and life-ruining incarceration of Peter Sullivan. Institutional inertia in paying compensation where it's due is unforgivable. Could be corrected in a heartbeat. https://t.co/6KpIbp78fb
spectator.co.uk
But Peter had none of that. It was just him in the room with police. Under their interrogation he broke down and confessed to the murder.
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