David Wood
@DavidEmrysWood
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@Mr_John_Oxley
I know of someone who asked for flat white in a coffee shop in North Wales and was told 'Sorry, we don't do those. You have to draw the line somewhere.'
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My trial was stood out today because Prosecutor couldn't attend. CPS couldn't find another one so it's gone till April 2024. I then covered a case for a colleague where 8 people on bail had their trial listed in April 2025. This can't go on.
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@thatginamiller
Don’t know how you rise above this filth but very grateful that you do. We have to get ourselves out of this somehow. Thank you for what you’re doing
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I'm just a barrister, on a train, asking for there to be some sort of reliable internet connection on the East Coast main line
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@mrjamesob
And there's the problem - Johnson shouts a response which isn't actually an answer to the question he's been asked, but that's all that those who support him require to satisfy themselves.
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For the first time in a while I have just looked at what it is going to cost, and how long it is going to take, for me to go from London to Manchester on Monday. That is an absolute scandal.
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@PriyamvadaGopal
Impossible to imagine what it's like and decisions like that are of course for you alone, but I really hope you don't. Your voice is very important - Insurgent Empire one of the best pieces of work I have read for a very long time. I would hope Churchill know some decent lawyers
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Outside Luton CC. Slices of bread in some arcane deployment. I’m not entirely sure what occult ceremony this represents but I fear it can’t be good. Get your libations to the Pigeon God in now.
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I am having lunch in a Waterstones cafe, alone. I am making a crisp sandwich using Pombears. In other news, I am very nearly 43.
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There is no greater barometer of my life right now than the fact that my junior is about the spend the weekend at Glastonbury whereas I will be spending it at the Inner Temple Big Picnic.
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@chrisweston
@mrchrisaddison
@robdelaney
The cabinet aren’t presently running anything so far as I can tell
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In case anyone is having a terrible weekend, I am relatively confident I have just accidentally put on not one but two loads of washing using a dishwasher gel tablet
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@Jebadoo2
Also concerned that he thinks if he had Ebola he’d be going for a steak dinner instead of having his insides dissolve
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@SmithRamparts
@Frodo_underhill
@SarahVAtDSC
@ESCWheeler
Under no circumstances allow that tweet to be seen by Jeremy Hunt
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#thingsBarristersNeverSay
How do I defend guilty people? You know, no one’s ever asked me that before...
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At some point, people with financial responsibility for this country will work out that ensuring that people who appear in court have access to qualified lawyers who are paid properly is actually cheaper, more efficient and fairer than the alternative
Free prescriptions and legal aid to end for benefit claimants not seeking work
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Oxford St with a hangover on a December Saturday. Solid gold life choices here.
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Scenes at the Crown Court at Newport as security man says ‘thank you fella’ on production of my Bar pass, then clocks that my middle name is Emrys and immediately switches to ‘thank you, gentleman…’
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Merry Christmas all of you. I hope it was filled with light
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@englishchick
My understanding has always been that if two places start with the same letter you can do 10am in one and 2pm in the other
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Arrive at the barbershop. ‘Yeah I’ve got the 9.30 with Steven’. ‘Sure mate, take a seat. Help yourself to a drink from the fridge’
The fridge contains only beer. Never change, South London
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@victorianclare
I recall talking to a very eminent English professor once who confessed that in one of his finals papers he added a footnote saying: ‘For Boswell, read Johnson. Intermittently.’
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One day I will have a job that does not involve me fighting for internet connectivity on a horrifically early train.
It is not this day.
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At a London CC. Unrepresented Def dealing with bail. ‘I earn too much for LA but not enough to pay a solicitor.’ WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?
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Ah. I see I am ‘forgetting to get off the train at the right stop’ levels of tired. Still, Catford seems nice
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The temptation to make ‘well, is it coming home?’ my first question in cross examination this morning is palpable…
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@BarristerSecret
@danaaabil
@shitbarrister
I got a train to Cambridge to watch my supervisor get sacked and spent the entire journey back to London trying to persuade her I wasn’t cursed. Sounds like you’ve had a much better start!
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@CrimBarrister
This drives me absolutely bananas. Sensitive and difficult conference to conduct? Why, this old bench with ripped seating in a communal area will do just fine...
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Night all. May that full moon bring you peace, wherever you are
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@utdadam24
@TheManUtdWay
Literally have a scar on my hand from watching this in the pub, managed to punch a speaker above my head in celebration...
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@Joanna__Hardy
@JolyonMaugham
What is the aim of an article that will have no practical effect at all on the prosecution of protesters (who in my experience are invariably tenaciously defended in accordance with their Counsel’s professional obligations) if not to score points?
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@mrjamesob
Equally terrifying is the suggestion that because it was a difficult area 11-0 somehow implies the decision was ‘loaded’. That’s a flat out misunderstanding of how the law works (and if anything the result shows quite how wrong the government position was)
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All of a sudden I am less bothered about my trial in Hull being adjourned to a date I definitely cannot do…
Hull Crown Court to be "urgently" fumigated to rid it of fleas
@HMCTSgovuk
confirmed affected areas closed on Monday, with pest controllers due to visit on Tuesday.
"difficult to control given the number of people going in and out of courtrooms".
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Outstanding work from my auntie, whose distrust of the postal service is such that this year she has sent my birthday card a mere three weeks early…
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@SCynic1
@Joanna__Hardy
I am absolutely down for a massive justice barge floating down the Bridgewater canal
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@lemnsissay
Lemn I’m sure you know how iconic that poem and its location was (and is) for thousands and thousands of us. Thank you for it.
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@BarristerSecret
The cost of these discussions is going to be inversely proportional to the satisfaction they bring, I suspect...
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@Joanna__Hardy
Well would you look at that?
Just told my housemate and he looked at me at what i can only describe as blazing hatred lol
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@gardencourtlaw
@TheCriminalBar
@lccsa
@WomenInCrimLaw
I am so sorry to hear this. Di was a legend and an inspiration to me right from when I clerked her even before I was called. A very special person, and fabulous barrister. My condolences to everyone at GC.
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@InspGadgetBlogs
@MistressLuce
@TJFRIP999
Advocates act on instructions. Submissions are always open to being fact checked if Crown don’t accept them. Any advocate ‘making something up’ would be hauled over coals
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Gatwick! Fingers at the ready as we play another round of ‘Will This Aeroplane Actually Take Off?’
Our first contestant is David. He’s been up since 3am and has drunk enough coffee to keep a bull elephant awake. Let’s see how he does…
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As usual Marina Hyde one of the very few people keeping me sane this morning.
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This is how you invite a jury to make an adverse inference from silence...
Good on
@KayBurley
for exposing Conservative Party chairman
@JamesCleverly
for pulling out of her programme in a panic, and asking every single question she was going to ask him, while the camera shows an empty chair and he cowers, apparently, fifteen feet away. Classic Dom.
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Well this can get in the bin
🗞️ Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60 🗞️
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The fact that United are seriously thinking about letting Greenwood back is bad enough. The fact that they’ve managed to palm responsibility for that onto members of the women’s team is utterly appalling.
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Have I cultivated an air of robust cynicism in the 40 years since The Snowman came out? Yes. Does it still make me cry? Also yes.
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This is bang on
Perhaps obvious, but no less infuriating for it. In a wk where MPs have gone round in Brexit circles, there have been - among other things - the worst A&E figures on record & flashing lights in an outsourcing industry with 100s of £m in govt contracts
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@Otto_English
I’ve lived in or next to three of these and somehow still alive. Absolutely creasing at Greenwich…
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@LauraVickersNo5
Staines Youth Court defending a trial - handling a stolen pedal cycle. Lucky to have a very kind old CPS prosecutor who did not take the piss when I cited Article 5 after he applied to amend charge. Gloriously acquitted, nowt to do with me...
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I’m not sure there’s a more peaceful sound than rain on a skylight window
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The queue for Waitrose Barbican resembles a long running game of Snake where literally any incorrect button press is game over
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@MChawlaQC
@janinegibson
I don't want to push at a closed door = you are dead wrong about this but life's too short
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I remain of the view that rain on a skylight window is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world
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@TimSapwell
As a pupil I represented a lad at Stratford Yourh Court who turned up in a T-Shirt with the logo ‘Criminal’ in multi coloured letters...
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Clear mandate for joint action. Now needs joint strategy. Leaders both sides- get talking!
@ffgqc
@bill_wow
@robinthemint
@Zoe_Gascoyne
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They won’t, because there aren’t enough of us left. Which means a lot of people are going to find out what several days in a police cell is actually like
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@SmnLlyd5
This is just brilliant. Just finished it on train back from Manc after taking my mum for dinner, 15 years after we lost my Dad to cancer. So much resonance. It’s helped me so much, and will help countless others. And the goals…Thank you so much for getting this out.
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I’ve heard of squeezing every bit out of your holiday but there is a lad* at this airport flying home drinking a pint of Stella at 09.10am…
*No, it isn’t me, thank you
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@JuliaHB1
@TicklishQuill
Because those are protected characteristics. Knowingly supporting the separation and incarceration of children is not.
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@juroberts_julia
Ordering a taxi at 5am:
‘Airport for a holiday sir?’
‘No mate I’ve got a Pre Trial Review where the Court insisted we all turn up for 5 minutes’
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@graemepark
@StreamGm
Genuinely awesome, both the set itself and the effort you made for such an important cause. Thank you!
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@CrimeLineLaw
@Joanna__Hardy
@BarristerSecret
@ObiterJ
Indeed. As a pupil I particularly remember a DJ saying ‘Thank you for your closing submissions for the defence, Mr Wood. This offence happened on...’
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@clea19638109
@Joanna__Hardy
@johngeorge1977
@TheCriminalBar
Better not tell him he’s still got three years immunity anyway...
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One day this year, I will take a flight to or from continental Europe that is not delayed. But it is not this day.
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Anyone with solid tips for combatting raging insomnia? Beyond ‘get off Twitter’. Cheers in advance…
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@kirby_pj
@BPTC_Lecturer
@BartonBank
@acatfromgreece
@LessCrime
@milesdolan
Harlow and Harrow. Still not forgiven that clerk.
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@SCynic1
Is this code for ‘MPs who are barristers have been reminded of the possible regulatory consequences of advocating breaking the law?’
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I should get out of bed and watch this on telly, shouldn’t I?
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@CrimeLineLaw
A fair question, but never underestimate how long it takes for a judgment to be drafted in the NMC
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See below not just for details of an important webinar but also my Chambers' statement opposing any curtailing of the right to trial by jury, a statement with which I wholeheartedly agree and of which I am very proud.
SAVE THE DATE: 25 Bedford Row Panel Webinar, “Trial by Jury - On Death Row” 7th July 2020, 5pm - 6.15pm, via Zoom.
Read our statement on the Suspension of Jury Trials here:
#criminaljusticesystem
#criminallaw
#jurytrial
#jurytrialsuspension
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@MufcWonItAll2
Very fond memories of watching him do a Cruyff turn on Benito Carbone twice in the same game…
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Already late and just got the tube in the wrong direction, how’s your day going?
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