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@barristersecret.bsky.social
Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman. Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth• Also writes thrillers as S.J. Fleet. The Cut Throat Trial coming 28 Aug 2025.
@nrempel.com
Dad, Rust enthusiast 🦀, gamer 🎮, and outdoor lover 🏕️ based in Victoria, BC. Software developer.
@lizziedearden.bsky.social
Contributing reporter to the New York Times in London, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed' Website: https://www.lizziedearden.com/
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social
Broadcaster, Journalist, lover of swimming. Find me @LBC 1-4pm or anytime @globalplayer. For work enquiries contact yellowpoppymedia.com …
@watsoncomedian.bsky.social
Comedian, author, producer. Your mum is a fan. But not like THAT.
@bbcdomc.bsky.social
BBC News Home and Legal Correspondent. // Stories // Features // Analysis // Documentaries // The Mafia Man in the Lancashire Caravan: http://bbc.in/2UV2ILv Linktree and contact details: https://linktr.ee/bbcdomc
@seanjones.org
King’s Counsel, gobshite. General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook. Trustee of FRU Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal Pl
@crimegirl.co.uk
“Well-known tweeting Barrister” Bar Council | “Popular anonymous Barrister” Daily Mail | “Possibly cabin crew” my neighbour | NGO MD | no longer tweeting a fo ben, bid bont |🎗️🏴
@davidmuttering.bsky.social
Mixing up a spot of bewigged law with some quality lounging, #pvfc, awkward puns and tireless pedantry.
@timadamswrites.bsky.social
Editor of Observer New Review, London; believer in untrodden ways and Invisible Cities, dawn choruses and last-minute winners.
@kirkkorner.bsky.social
Courts Correspondent for the London Standard www.standard.co.uk Daily coverage from the biggest court cases in London and beyond
@georginalee.bsky.social
FactCheck and Data News Editor at Channel 4 News. I cover UK and US politics, economics, the NHS, crime and justice, the environment, immigration, Israel Gaza, Ukraine Russia, and misinformation.
@mckeevergrainne.bsky.social
Law Professor at Ulster Uni, Belfast. Co-Editor of Journal of Social Security Law. Former Vice-Chair of Social Security Advisory Committee. Writing a book on 'Legal participation for litigants in person: protecting the right to a fair trial.'
@padraigbelton.bsky.social
Journalist. BBC, and a few other places. Buys nappies on eBay.
@samwillis.uk
Local First, Sync Engines, @pglite.dev and Sync Engines at @electric-sql.com. More at https://samwillis.uk
@charlierad.bsky.social
Advocates for those injured in military + disabled folk, helping lay people engage with the law, founder http://veteranlawproject.org.uk, Living Options Devon trustee, war pensions + AFCS, spinal cord injury, not a lawyer, manage land & forestry, Dartmoor
@familoo.pinktape.co.uk
Family barrister Author @nofamilylawyer Chair @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk Crocheter of unneeded thneeds “Not really a wine drinker…” www.pinktape.co.uk
@cjmckeon.bsky.social
Political correspondent for PA, former local journalist, amateur sportsman, historian, Africanist, other things
@johnhyde.bsky.social
Deputy News Editor of the Law Society Gazette. After-dinner speaker and event host. Cricket lover, Colchester United fan, Britpop nostalgic.
@acarpen.bsky.social
Ex-Whitehall type still with views on public policy, but now local historian in Cambridge (UK) blogging at https://lostcambridge.com/ - also writing about the future of the city on The Cambridge Town Owl.
@audreysuffolk.bsky.social
Equality law compliance trainer and consultant. audreyludwig.com Non-practising Solicitor. My personal thoughts on Equality/Disability/Feminism/ Access2Justice/LawCentres/FineArt etc. Founder Suffolk Law Centre. Repost not endorsement
@carlgardner.bsky.social
Backroom legal obsessive. Former law lecturer and government lawyer. https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlgardner/ Also books, beer, films, and a bit of politics. London and Warrington.
@giffordhead.co.uk
I'm a barrister & mediator. Things I like include: legal history & legal oddities; music & musical instruments; Mesopotamian history; & Portuguese wine and Port. My professional website is: http://www.giffordhead.co.uk Forgive typos.
@samfr.bsky.social
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com) Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Senior fellow: Institute for Government
@cjr1968.bsky.social
Barrister, Cornerstone Barristers, housing, care, public law Travel, cats and reading are my other passions. Likes or re-posts do not indicate endorsement. All opinions are mine, and not those of Chambers, although everyone in Chambers also likes cats.
@crimeline.co.uk
Digital knowledge platform for criminal law & regulatory professionals, government & Judiciary. Andrew Keogh, Barrister www.CrimeLine.co.uk
@marcusedwards.bsky.social
Producer for Channel 4 News, covering Wales and the west of England.
@leader-kate.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @QMUL Law. Crim law and justice, laypersons and professionalism, conspiracy theories, law + performance. Director of QMUL Criminal Justice Centre. I wrote a book about LiPs. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/items/leader.html
@tonykentwrites.bsky.social
Criminal barrister, ex-boxer & author of the bestselling Joe Dempsey / Michael Devlin thriller series. Co-founder of Chiltern Kills Crime Writing Festival Co-writer of The Revenge of Odessa alongside Frederick Forsyth Rep’d by Kerr MacRae (MacRae LPA)
@faiselsadiq.bsky.social
Londoner. British. Barrister (Inner Temple) practising from @gatehouse.bsky.social. Interested in law and politics. Fiscal and Defence Hawk. Socially Progressive. All views are my own. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.
@fkrougman.bsky.social
Advocate (defender of solicitors and barristers), Mediator and co-author of The law and Practice of Private Prosecutions. Law, reading, violin, fountain pens, doglover and history. https://fabiankrougman.com/regulatory-and-professional-discipline
@k80bex.bsky.social
KC; Homicide, Fraud, Organised Crime. Houseboat dweller now reluctant landlubber to accommodate arthritic cat’s refusal to climb steep stairs (now RIP aged almost 22). Views my own. https://redlionchambers.co.uk/barrister/kate-bex-qc/
@ishankolhatkar.com
Website: ishankolhatkar.com Global Evangelist in the Ed Tech Industry Former Academic. FHEA Former Barrister. Dad to 8 & 18 Cooks a bit Likes puns far too much
@notagavel.bsky.social
Retired criminal barrister and natural history enthusiast. Member of @innertemple.org.uk
@tomlatchem.bsky.social
Former tabloid man now an independent journo reporting and making docs in the public interest without fear or favour. Questioning authority for the past five decades. #AFCB 🍒
@anna-soubry.bsky.social
Criminal barrister & Sky News paper reviewer (when I have the time!) Former MP, TV Presenter & Reporter East Midlander born n bred
@thebarwithmb.bsky.social
Member of the Criminal Bar. www.mountfordchambers.com Views all my own and mostly wrong.
@kirstybrimelow.bsky.social
Human rights, criminal & international law barrister Doughty Street Chambers. Vice Chair Bar Council. Chair Criminal Bar Association 2022-2023. Chair Bar Human Rights Committee 2012-2018. Bencher Gray’s Inn. Trustee of WWF-UK.
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@idlecourts.bsky.social
A place originally set up to report the under-use of Crown Courts in England and Wales. Now a place to report on the daily failings of a system unable to cope.