Julia Roberts
@juroberts_julia
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Kent crown court reporter, Tony's Law and child cruelty register campaigner, wife, mum, nana, dog owner and sun worshipper. Views may or may not be my own.
Joined September 2014
@juroberts_julia This approach is brilliant and needs adopting nationwide by our judiciary to take the fight to any attempt at the erosion of the right of trial by jury. đź‘Ź
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There are plenty of Crown Court trials going on every day up and down the country. But there could be more, if successive Govts had not closed so many court buildings and sold them off, and are still keeping about 15-20% of available Crown Court court rooms closed each day
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Judge Oliver Saxby KC thanking jurors at the end of a double death by dangerous driving case: "The criminal justice system gets a knocking a lot of the time but it is jurors such as you, jury trials, that are the bedrock of our system and I'm very grateful for your participation"
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Judges thanking juries for their service now carries much more weight in light of Lammy's plans. Today, at the end of a manslaughter trial at Maidstone Crown, HH Mrs Justice Norton said: "We cannot try cases without you. We really can't. You are a valuable part of the system."
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The only positive in David Lammy's outlandish concept of scraping jury trials is the fact it may actually cut the queues to get into court buildings.....
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Great news coming out of Maidstone Crown Court that Daniel Stevenson has been appointed a circuit judge, and will be sitting from Monday, November 10. Such a fantastic addition to the Bench and very much deserved. https://t.co/oJRCBXQCel
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The King has appointed Daniel Stevenson to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable David Lammy MP, and the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right...
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There's even a queue to get in at lunchtime. How dare anyone pop out to buy a sandwich....
Not yet 9am, no case listed before 10am and yet there is already a 50-strong queue to enter Maidstone Crown Court. When are you going to do something about it once and for all, @HMCTSgovuk? On the bright side, it's not raining.....
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Not yet 9am, no case listed before 10am and yet there is already a 50-strong queue to enter Maidstone Crown Court. When are you going to do something about it once and for all, @HMCTSgovuk? On the bright side, it's not raining.....
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It's kind of ironic that just days after HMCTS announce the media should be informed of reporting restriction applications that they then list a case with the incorrect anonymity order....
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He was nothing but skin and bones, curled up on a sun-bleached wooden deck in the middle of nowhere. No food. No water. No shelter. No hope. On a tiny, uninhabited fishing island off the coast of Belize, miles from shore, a starving puppy lay waiting for the end. But then… he
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A good example of police comms and the media working together to avoid any risk of jigsaw identification.
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Small-boat migrant Fayaz Khan has been found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of making a threat to kill the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, in a TikTok post last year.
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A four-week trial at Maidstone Crown Court has just been given a fixed date in January 2029....only for prosecution counsel to reveal their unavailability due to another fixture in their diary. Having remarked it was "years away", the judge said he could not delay it further.
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New rules regarding discretionary reporting restrictions come into force today. Now, the applicant is duty bound to notify the media if they want a reporting ban.
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From today (Monday 6 October 2025), changes to the Criminal Procedure Rules reinforce open justice by explicitly stating parties who apply for discretionary reporting restrictions in criminal cases,...
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Today is THE day new rules come into force requiring parties seeking reporting restrictions to provide notice to the media. Freelancers can request to be added to the list of people who receive notice. Failure to give notice is a ground to challenge any restriction. Blog:
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If any of my legal or court reporters friends are at Ipswich Crown Court today could you please pop in to Recorder Bate-Williams' courtroom and tell him that Canterbury Crown Court has been waiting 40 minutes for him to link in! All attempts to contact him from here have failed.
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My worry before the season started was that these new big signings would win us nothing...#GALLIV
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to say anonymity can't be granted by way of another law. It's just that anonymity under the Sexual Offences Act cannot apply.
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Dear court listings, reporting restrictions in sexual offence cases granting anonymity only last for a person's lifetime. So please do not state on your published lists that such a court order exists when said complainant has died. The clue is in the word 'lifetime'....That's not
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I don’t want the government or anyone else tracking me and knowing everything I do and like…. Sent from my iPhone.
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