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Jim Robottom

@jimrobottom.bsky.social
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Rights, wrongs & Talking Heads songs. Barrister @matrixchambers, phd @KCL_Law Views mine, not a burning building’s.

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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I mean, he would write this wouldn't he.
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
#CAFC
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I am nominated for this, is it ok to find the sponsorship terribly amusing
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Gradual exposure to food allergens as a treatment can do amazing things. Two years ago our daughter went to hospital in anaphylaxis having milk in cooked food at nursery, a year of the ‘milk ladder’ at home via KCLH and she now is dairy allergy free www.bbc.com/news/article...
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'My peanut allergy nearly killed me - now I eat them every day'
Just a few years ago, Chris Brookes-Smith could have died from eating peanuts - but taking part in a clinical trial has changed his life.
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Something v brass eye about this
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
IT’S GONNA BE A BIG DAY FOR COMMENTING ON A JUDGMENT YOU HAVEN’T READ
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hudoc? You doc? No doc. Not be doc.
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Any suggestions for good US podcasts where you can catch up with the legal constitutional issues atm, I have tried and failed in this quest before
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Need a new project now my PhD is done. Can I ask, law hive mind, people to reply to this with English legal cases the think are most significant, any court, any area, whether cos they developed a particular legal area, or they were socially signif like say Ruth Ellis. All eras. Want a list
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Who are the greatest melodists in popular music. For me Jeff Mangum Bob Marley Paul McCartney Though I accept I’ve just done this off the top of my head
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Matrix Law @matrixlaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Court of Appeal rejects Secretary of State & Environment Agency appeal in landmark judgment on Water Framework Directive Regulations water pollution duties. David Wolfe KC & Raj Desai acted for Pickering Fishery Association, instructed by @fishlegal.bsky.social. Read more: ow.ly/PVjE50VvvBt
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I submit that rather than having to write opinions about prisoners trapped in hot showers as a punishment, we stop treating people like this. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unp...
Defendants contend that Burkle could have used the shower water to clean the feces and vomit from the cell floor. Further, Defendants argue that Burkle's defecation and vomiting was less severe than that previously held to violate the Eighth Amendment in Taylor v. Riojas, 592 U.S. 7 (2020), because Burkle had not shown a clogged drain.
It is well-established that filthy and unsanitary cell conditions may violate a prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights. See, e.g., id. at 9 n.2 (holding that "massive amounts" of feces in plaintiff's seclusion cell, his being deprived restroom facilities, forced to relieve himself in his cell, and forced to sleep on the cell floor violated the Eighth Amendment); Palmer, 193 F.3d at 352-53 (determining that plaintiff's confinement to a small area without restroom facilities and in unsanitary conditions for seventeen hours deprived him of the basic elements of hygiene); Gates, 376 F.3d at 338-40 (holding that plaintiff's confinement to unsanitary cell conditions implicated the Eighth Amendment's protections); see also Hope v. Harris, 861 F. App'x 571, 584 (5th Cir. 2021) (vacating district court's dismissal of plaintiff's claim against one defendant after finding that mold. urine and feces covering cell had
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Julia Emtseva @jemtseva.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I know, every day, we wake up to so much nonsense and sadness, but to break this cycle at least for a moment, what good news, personal, professional, global, can you share to brighten our days? 🥹
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Any lads just 5 days to invest in that stocks and shares isa for the year
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I am imposing tariffs on posts about Trump
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Minor things that are deceptively hard work: Minor Threat Beethoven’s string quartet in C sharp minor Jim’s phd minor corrections
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Just genuinely stuck up for the dad in the tiger who came to tea in an argument
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
One of these exceptions accords with principle and the other doesn't. One does not need to compensate a dead person for loss of earnings (and the 1976 Act deals with dependents). But if the point of exemplary damages is punitive why on earth aren't we punishing tortfeasors who cause death?
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Jo Sidhu disbarred www.theguardian.com/law/2025/mar...
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Former Criminal Bar Association chair disbarred over sexual misconduct
Navjot ‘Jo’ Sidhu KC ‘abused his professional position’ and trust of young woman he was mentoring, panel finds
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I always said he was relatable
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
So much still requires to be explained lyrically from the Bends 30 years on. Why was there a town full of rubber bands? Why was the lad who had done two jumps on his motorcycle in one week worthy of such derision? In retrospect that was a real achievement.Still. Big chords and all that. As you were
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Guys my Supreme Court mug smashed and I’m a bit worried this might mean the constitution falls apart like a modern version of that ravens thing
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Tamar Burton @tamarburton.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
So proud to have been part of this wonderful team of women @cloisterslaw.bsky.social @sarahfraserbutlin.bsky.social and such a privilege to speak on behalf of the bravest of clients. www.cloisters.com/insights/the...
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
RIP Roy Ayers. Thanks for giving us such joyous and righteous tunes. Here are some of them open.spotify.com/playlist/443...
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Roy Ayers
Playlist · andychislehurst · 13 items
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Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Private prosecutions shake-up after Post Office and Single Justice Procedure scandals Includes the idea that prosecutors should engage with vulnerable defendants and actually read the letters of mitigation they send in www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/p...
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Private prosecution shake-up after Post Office and SJP scandals
The Criminal Justice System has been rocked by a series of scandals
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Everybody loves the sunshine
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Garden Court Chambers @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
📣 WATCH LIVE - CRANSTON INQUIRY📣 Our Joint Head of Chambers, Sonali Naik KC, provides opening statements on behalf of bereaved families and one of the two survivors, instructed by Maria Thomas of Duncan Lewis (@dlpubliclaw.bsky.social). Livestream below 🔽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlzn...
Cranston Inquiry opens Full Hearings into the 24 November 2021 Channel crossing tragedy.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The Cranston Inquiry started today. It heard that the deaths of at least 27 people was "entirely predictable". As I reported at the time, the coastguard was understaffed, overworked and made poor decisions that night. That includes instructing the search and rescue team to go to the wrong dinghy.
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The opening statement on behalf of the bereaved families and one survivor to the Cranston Inquiry, which opened today, and investigates the UK's worst small boats disaster in November 2021 cranston.independent-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u...
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It’s gone a bit under the radar, but the Cranston Inquiry, into the UK’s worst small boats disaster on 24 November 2021 when 27 people died, starts on Monday. It will look at lessons learned, and the policy decisions taken during the huge rise in crossings in 2021, as well as the night itself
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
My book covers this incident, including what happened inside the coastguard's control room that night and the stories of those whose bodies are still missing. I also reported on it here: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Revealed: Coastguard failings in run up to Channel migrant drowning disaster
Exclusive: Staff worked 20-hour days in build-up to tragedy that killed 27 people, source tells Nicola Kelly
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It was around that time that William Hague started publishing political articles written in the voice of an owl
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It’s gone a bit under the radar, but the Cranston Inquiry, into the UK’s worst small boats disaster on 24 November 2021 when 27 people died, starts on Monday. It will look at lessons learned, and the policy decisions taken during the huge rise in crossings in 2021, as well as the night itself
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Remembering George Harrison on his birthday. Here's a glorious playlist of the singles that he listened to on his KB Discomat jukebox (as published by Record Mirror in December 1965). Photo taken in Chiswick Gardens by Robert Whitaker ▶️🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/2hB...
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Me falling over doing my ankle exercises on the bottom stair
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
What I have decided today is I would like Landmark Chambers to do an important planning case about local statue law and start it's newspiece "In landmark Landmark landmark statue statute case..."
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Look! Two things (the first more important than the 2nd) 1. Matrix Chambers @matrixlaw.bsky.social is now on bluesky! Please follow! There will more helpful important substantive legal content than the below post. 2. I got nominated for a thing. Thanks. Happy Monday!
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Some news, team! 🎙️ I’m so excited to make my broadcasting debut for BBC Radio 4 next week. ‘You Do Not Have to Say Anything’ is a 10 episode behind-the-scenes peek at (and love letter to) the criminal justice system. Join me, Mon-Fri at 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds 🧡
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This should be changed asap. If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...
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Good character guidance amended to block refugees from naturalisation - Free Movement
There have been some important additions to pages 50 and 51 of the Good Character guidance (a comparison of the new and old versions is here) that have the
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Sara Mansour Fallah @smansourfallah.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
You can now follow the European Court of Human Rights on Bluesky at @echr.coe.int!
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Has anyone got a copy or some screenshots of that Sumption Times interview? I want to vindicate my ancient English liberty to read it for free
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Get off here now and watch the Leyton Orient goal v Man City in the cup ok rewind absolutely incredible
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Standard workplace bants we’ve all been there
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
INSERT THE ROAD TO SERFDOM JOKE
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In case you missed it: What is in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill? | Colin Yeo
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What is in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill? - Free Movement
The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill has landed. It weighs in at 57 clauses ("sections" once it is an Act), two schedules and 74 pages. Let's take
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Is this the worst thing to happen to barristers since they let us speak to the public about our own cases
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
What if we had some some unwritten posts to go with that unwritten constitution
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Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
One of the great follies of the internet was to make popstars of podcasters and paupers of popstars
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