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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was on BBC Radio 4 Today this morning at 7.41am talking about lasting powers of attorney and deprivation of liberty safeguards and authorisations for adults in a care setting www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Today - 25/09/2026 - BBC Sounds

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two things about this 1. Some of the lack of diversity discourse is unfair to these individuals. There’s no reason to think the JAC wouldn’t have selected a more diverse range of people if they had applied and met the criteria 2. There’s some crackpot antisemitism in some of the replies and quotes

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve followed and supported this defamation claim for some time. The offer to compromise makes cogent points on the findings of the BSB and its independent reviewer dismissing the complaint as an obstacle to a defence of truth to defamation, and on the vulnerability of the complainant as a witness

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am selling the desk I had in chambers in London WC2. It’s a William IV mahogany partners’ desk with 4 drawers, size 134 cm w x 97 cm l x 70 cm h. I used AI to tidy up the photo background but the desk is as seen. Please DM me or request a FM from me if you’re interested in buying it

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America of 11 September 2001. A friend who worked in lower Manhattan sent me this eye-witness account the next day, and I’ve reread it every year since then bleakhouserevisited.substack.com/p/twin-tower...

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Twin Towers Remembered

A friend’s eyewitness account of the events of 11 September 2001

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RollOnFriday @rollonfriday.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Jolyon Maugham brands fellow barrister 'troll in white grandmother clothes' for criticising Good Law Project www.rollonfriday.com/news-content...

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is the real point. We don’t decide public policy or answer serious questions in public life in this country through the medium of outrage-driven petitions. It’s childish agitprop, and a long distance from the sort of public interest litigation the GLP originally involved itself in

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The great helmsman of the Good Law Project, Jolyon Maugham KC, has published a long statement on its website. He notably moderates his language about me from a few days ago and acknowledges that I was right, though cannot bring himself to apologise to me goodlawproject.org/statement-ab...

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Characteristically graceless.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Were a three year old to react on being corrected with a foot stamping tantrum such as this, you’d be mortified for the parent. goodlawproject.org/statement-ab...

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Statement about the BBC and our fundraising | Good Law Project

A BBC correction requires further clarification

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Jolyon is the gift that keeps on giving. What a truly awful man he is.

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The latest from one of His Majesty’s counsel learned in the law, in response to an article about the GLP published over the weekend www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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Matt @matthewblott.com · 19/08/2026

This is terrific from @jamesomalley.co.uk and possibly the best thing I've read on the Arday case👇 takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/9-thoughts...

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9 thoughts on Jason Arday

What principles should guide how we make sense of this tragedy?

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On 17 August Jolyon Maugham was on BBC News and angrily denied that there was a “fundraising ask” on the Good Law Project’s Jason Arday petition page. There is and was no specific crowdfunding appeal, but there was then a yellow “Donate” button on the page. It was silently removed a few hours later

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Eclipsemaxxing at Greenwich, on the meridian and in the park

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

All set for both the solar eclipse and any spontaneous outbursts of Pastafarianism which may be happening en route

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It was public knowledge before last weekend that the Times Higher Education had received a solicitors’ letter about its Arday story and its journalist had been investigated by the police. A mere “THE decided not to run the story” in defending the Good Law Project’s solidarity letter was inadequate

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I have a metaphorical egg timer for how long I spend scrolling this site before I see someone congratulating him or herself on avoiding the Twitter/X culture wars and gracing this serene utopia with their wisdom instead. If it was a real egg timer, the eggs would invariably be too runny to eat

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In praise of Canary Wharf in London’s Docklands

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

An organisation which solicits money from the public, which is not a registered charity, and which is controlled by a single individual who has been neither elected nor appointed to that position, should expect and respond to questions about its activities, whether from supporters or not

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Spotted a well-known self-described left-wing anti-racist commentator at a party last night, but decided not to embark on conversation, fearing that the Rod Liddle obituary edition of the Spectator in my handbag might start giving off radioactive clicks in close proximity

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

No acknowledgement of the damage he's done to 1. Trust, upon which academic life is based 2. Attempts to correct the imbalance of who gets top University jobs 3. Cambridge 4. Liverpool John Moores 5. The discipline he works in. Where he chooses to make the announcement is very appropriate.

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I participated in this BBC Radio 4 series on inheritance in England and its contemporary problems presented by Tony Hawks last year. It’s being repeated this week at 11.45 on weekday mornings www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

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BBC Sounds - Tony Hawks Is Giving Nothing Away - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Tony Hawks Is Giving Nothing Away on BBC Sounds.

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This grim, sad case of the son who kept his dead mother’s body in a freezer and continued to claim her benefits has been quite widely reported in the news. There have been a number of similar cases in other countries with an ageing population eg Japan, Italy www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I don’t think the Charity Commission would let Amnesty International UK get away with describing any other charity organised around beliefs which are protected in English law as “anti-rights”, nor should it do so.

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

31 July is the end of the English legal year, but I won’t be returning this autumn with the metaphorical new pencil case as I am retiring after 35 years in practice at the Chancery Bar in Lincoln’s Inn, London open.substack.com/pub/bleakhou...

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In Chancery no longer

Retiring from a career at the Chancery Bar between 1991-2026

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I’ve written for my long-neglected Substack on the story of Actaeon and Diana, and Metamorphoses at the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond open.substack.com/pub/bleakhou...

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Metamorphoses at Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond

Sex Matters v The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London [2026]

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 20/06/2026

I really deplore this sort of thing. GRKC has, with respect, either not read the published judgment & sentencing remarks or, if he has, has ignored them. For example, it was the defendants' lawyers who sought restrictions against the public knowing about the pre-trial "terrorism connection" ruling.

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You may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law | Geoffrey Robertson

The jurors who found the pro-Palestine activists guilty of criminal damage had no idea their verdict would be treated as a verdict on terrorism, says Geoffrey Robertson KC

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I’ve written for my long-neglected Substack on the story of Actaeon and Diana, and Metamorphoses at the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond open.substack.com/pub/bleakhou...

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Metamorphoses at Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond

Sex Matters v The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London [2026]

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The Other Half @otherhalforg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The Assisted Death bill is revived: @laurenedwardsmp.bsky.social will take the Bill under her name. Division ahead: this hastily drafted Bill was opposed by medical colleges and disability groups. And it had fierce criticism on its risk to women 🧵

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’m trying, but failing, to imagine any of the many student protesters of my day disrupting a *law* lecture. “What do we want?” “Liability for nervous shock in tort”. “When do we want it?” “Before the extended limitation period under the Latent Damage Act expires”. “No, now”.

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Despite the ornate setting of Westminster, this press conference has the ineffable air of the sad-faced losers’ gathering in the cafe at the end of each episode of The Apprentice. We need and deserve better legislation than this Bill would have been. I’m glad it failed

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The Bar Standards Board sent the GLP a detailed determination rejecting the complaint of harassment on 27 March 2026. Yet it has taken the GLP almost a week to update its followers on this outcome, and to do so with redaction of examples of the complainant’s own abusive language cited by the BSB

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

For anyone looking for a long read on the WASPI campaign. The government was right to say “no” to WASPI, who have inflated women’s expectations and resisted any form of means or merits testing and whose campaign would benefit numerous women who neither need nor deserve compensation. I am one myself

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Dr Julie Doughty @juliedoughty.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

this is helpful, by @barbararich.bsky.social Full Restitution, Empty Promises - Bleak House Revisited share.google/r6fYfMADVNys...

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Full Restitution, Empty Promises

The WASPI campaign and increases in women’s state pension age

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A man dressed as for court in wig, gown, wing collar, and bands in order to judge a moot run by the ICC Bar Association in The Hague may not be what he seems. This individual is an unqualified paralegal from the Netherlands with a fantasy aspiration of becoming an English barrister

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Quite appallingly, the shadow Lord Chancellor and shadow Secretary of State for Justice has posted to X an inaccurate and misleading statement about the Court of Appeal’s judgment, mistakenly quoting and describing paragraph 114 of the judgment it overruled, not the Court of Appeal’s own reasoning

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Could I take this opportunity to suggest to all my followers that they follow Barbara? She comes from a different political perspective to me but she is always worth hearing even when (especially when) we disagree.

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

A little excursion into legal history. The effigy of Sir William Gascoigne, Henry IV’s Lord Chancellor, who died in 1419, and his first wife, and a memorial to Sir Thomas Denison, an 18th century judge of the King’s Bench Division, All Saints’ Church, Harewood, Yorkshire

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Full judgment in appeal on Epping Bell hotel interim injunction now published www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Two important omissions from this story The reporting barrister, Steven Barrett, is associated with “Lawyers for Borders” who encourage and assist local authorities seeking these injunctions Complaints about judicial case management decisions are outside the remit of the conduct body

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This is really excellent on our understandings of - and the reality of - intergenerational inequality.

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Not tired of London, not tired of life

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Farah Damji, the offender who the judge described as having spent her life “harming others” “, has relied on the use of aliases and on the willingness of people to trust appearances and support social justice campaigns to launder her reputation over and over again. Lawyers and judges - be warned

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Sentencing remarks or HHJ Joanna Greenberg KC in R v Farah Damji. A sentence of six years immediate custody for various offences including “psychological torture” of her victim www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-...

judiciary.uk

R -v- Farah Damji - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

In the Crown Court at Wood Green Crown Court 11 July 2025 Sentencing remarks of HHJ Joanna Greenberg KC Between: R-v-Farah Damji

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This is the most compelling, closely-argued case against the Assisted Dying Bill that I’ve read.

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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A plea for a sense of proportion. Criminal damage is criminal damage. Guilty defendants shouldn’t be sentenced as if the inanimate objects they’ve damaged or destroyed had human qualities and had read out their victim impact statements in court

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Hansard Society @hansardsociety.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Next Friday (16 May) the #AssistedDying bill returns to the House of Commons chamber. So we sat down with @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social to discuss the state of play with the Bill and what further amendments she thinks are still needed. 🎧 Tune in now: buff.ly/GAExxWv

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