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Joanna Cunningham

@jomdcunningham888.bsky.social
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Wishing him so much love.. If I hadn’t been a Gooner I’d of been a Newcastle fan ❤️🙏🏻
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Hoping 2026 is a great year for all 🍸x
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Have a great Christmas & may 2026 be a good year.. Warm Regards Jo x🤶🍸
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
#LestWeForget
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
@civlittweet.bsky.social Here’s a pic you’ll enjoy! Been along that way quite a few times 😉 As have I…
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Law Paw Calendar (Billable Hour) @lawpawcalendar.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Trixie here, checking you haven't forgotten to send in your Law Paw entry for this year's calendar! Send your entry to BillableHourCalendar@outlook.com by 26th September 2025 to ensure your pet features in the calendar
Trixie is a dog in glasses and barrister bands, who is looking over her glasses directly into the camera
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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MEMBER NEWS: DISCOUNTS FOR MEMBERS ON THE CIVIL LITIGATION BRIEF SERIES OF WEBINARS
There are a series of webinars coming up which cover many of the key aspects we look at on this site.  Members who subscribe to the site can now obtain a discount on each of the webinars, with furt…
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
#VJDay80 #LestWeForget A celebration tinged with the sadness of loss..
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
@civlittweet.bsky.social You ok ?
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
@civlittweet.bsky.social Happy Yorkshire Day ☺️🙏🏻
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Andy Lane @andylane07.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
‘Tenancy fraud creates social harm and we must tackle it’ - great article by Nicola Evans. www.housingtoday.co.uk/comment/tena...
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Tenancy fraud creates social harm and we must tackle it
L&Q this year successful brough its first prosecution for tenancy fraud. Nicola Evans explains why providers should tackle the problem
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Pablo Von Helsing @pablovonhelsing.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@civlittweet.bsky.social It's probably a bit late for your webinar today, but: Can a Pt36 offer be valid if it includes a discount opportunity for the other party? Usual valid terms... and then say a set sum or % reduction if accepted and fully paid in a shorter period than the rules suggest? 1/n
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
EAT upholds ETs award of £210,000 against former senior partner of respondent firm www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/06/03/c...
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COST BITES 243: EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL DID NOT ERR WHEN IT ORDERED THE APPLICANT TO PAY (UP TO) £210,000 IN COSTS
It is important for all litigators and litigants to know that some regimes, although normally costs free, do have a discretion to award costs.  The Employment Tribunal is an example of this.   In t…
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Parts of witness statement struck out www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/06/05/p...
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PARTS OF WITNESS STATEMENT STRUCK OUT – THIS “CARRIES NO WEIGHT AS EVIDENCE”:DOORS FIRMLY SHUT IN RELATION TO INADMISSIBLE COMMENTARY
If we had a pound for every word in witness statements served in just one single month that was irrelevant or inadmissible we could probably go a long way to paying off the national debt.  The cost…
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Julian Parker @jhjparker.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Oxeye daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare) self-seeded in my ‘lawn’. #Louth #Lincolnshire #StJamessChurch
Oxeye daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare) self-seeded in my ‘lawn’. #Louth #Lincolnshire #StJamessChurch
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Lest We Forget 🙏🏻🫡⚓️
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
@templebrief.bsky.social hope you pop back & see this 😉⚓️🫡
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Lest We Forget 🫡🙏🏻
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
lol 🙏🏻😳👩🏻‍⚖️❤️🐶
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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WITNESS STATEMENTS DIRECT: MEMORY, GESTMIN £15 MILLION AND QUITE A LOT OF ALCOHOL: A HEADY BREW
There is a certain appropriateness in one of the last major first-instance judgments of Mr Justice Leggatt being about witness credibility and the Gestmin criteria. In Blue -v- Ashley [2017] EWHC 1…
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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ADVOCACY THE JUDGE’S VIEW 7: WITNESS STATEMENTS “ACCURACY AND NOT LEGAL ARGUMENT IS THE KEY TO ENSURING A WITNESS STATEMENT IS AS EFFECTIVE AS IT CAN BE”
In terms of preparation of client’s case, and prospects of success,  witness statements  are crucial.  The rules only allow the witness to give additional evidence in exceptional circumstance…
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
#Searchlights create the "V" of the Victory over #Strasbourg #Cathedral. #ww2 #VEday
The "V" of the Victory over Strasbourg Cathedral.
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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
People are very easily taken in by a project that sounds worthy and helpful to women in prison, and which has big name patronage. But unfortunately even big name patrons sometimes fail to do due diligence and see the obvious red flags before their eyes
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Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Justice has been done with unanimous guilty verdicts in this case. I was subjected to vicious abuse and attempts to harm my professional reputation by Damji in 2021 when I questioned her close involvement in a project supported by some distinguished women lawyers www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Stalker, 58, harassed 'ex-British ambassador she met online'
Farah Damji, 58, met Nigel Gould-Davies in Bumble in July 2023 and was later diagnosed with stage three breast cancer .
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Always mindful of those that make fake claims & for the need to research a person, accuser, their attitudes, interactions if on SM etc. Genuine cases are greatly damaged by fantasists - great work like this then > hampered.
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
So far this week I've covered judgments that mention, Shakespeare written by monkeys, the end of the Universe, "false" judgments. Now we are moving on to Edmund Burke and his advice to representatives ... www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/05/08/w...
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WITNESS STATEMENTS AND FINDINGS OF DISHONESTY BY AN EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL: EDMUND BURKE CITED “YOUR REPRESENTATIVE OWES YOU, NOT HIS INDUSTRY ONLY, BUT HIS JUDGEMENT: AND HE BETRAYS YOU INSTEAD OF SERV...
It is rare for this blog to look at Employment Tribunal decisions.  However examining the drafting of witness statements is part of its everyday fare.  Here we look at  a decision where the Tribuna…
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Dr. Jason Price @priceperrott.com · 07/05/2025
@jomdcunningham888.bsky.social Thanks for the question! I do have some content on vexatious complainants and I’ll add it to my content list for you :) stay tuned and subscribe to my substack too! priceperrott.substack.com
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Beyond the bullet points | Dr Jason Price | Substack
In-depth, practical insights to help you create high-performing, respectful workplace cultures that tackle incivility, bullying and harassment. Click to read Beyond the bullet points, by Dr Jason Pric...
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Current status…
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Leon Kazakos @leonkazakos.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Congratulations to the barristers who completed this year’s Keble Advanced Advocacy Course. Thanks to Sarah Clarke KC and her team of tutors, experts, assistants who deliver this world class course year after year.
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Wow 👩🏻‍⚖️👩🏻‍⚖️
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/05/07/c... Proportionality, costs & applications (why spend £13,00 pursuing an interim remedy only worth £1,500?)
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COST BITES 237: “THROUGHOUT HISTORY, LAWYERS HAVE HAD A BAD REPUTATION”: COMMONSENSE AND PROPORTIONALITY CONSIDERED IN THE FAMILY COURTS
Why spend £13,000 to recover a remedy that will only be worth £1,500? That is the issue considered by Deputy District Judge Hodgson [Professor David Hodson OBE KC (Hons)].  An application was made …
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
What role does counsel (particularly leading counsel) have in the preparation/overview of expert reports and witness statements? www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/05/06/t...
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THE ROLE OF LEADING COUNSEL IN RELATION TO EXPERT REPORTS AND WITNESS STATEMENTS: A CLIENT CAN PAY FOR WHAT THEY WANT, BUT THESE COSTS WILL NOT BE RECOVERABLE INTER PARTES
How far should leading counsel, or counsel generally, be involved in the preparation of expert reports and witness statements?   One obvious reply is “not at all”, given that the eviden…
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Simon Ross @shross.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Very interesting article. I am always keen to embrace tech. Is anyone currently using any tech that you would recommend as being invaluable? #lifeattheBar
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Use a template witness statement (with information that the witness denied in court). Very high on a list of best ways to lose a case... www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/04/09/p...
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PROVING THINGS 258: GENERIC WITNESS STATEMENTS RARELY IMPRESS A COURT: CLAIM FOR £50,190.24 REDUCED TO £1,197: A CAR CRASH OF A CASE
In David Wiltshire v Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Company of Europe [2025] EWCC 13 District Judge Lumb rejected most of the claimant’s claim for damages following damage to his car.  The claima…
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@templebrief.bsky.social
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
@templebrief.bsky.social You may like this 😉🙃
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A very painful case this. Barrister for successful appellant in Privy Council case not allowed to recover costs because the CFA retainer was not lawful www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/02/20/c...
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COST BITES 218: JUNIOR COUNSEL’S FEES NOT RECOVERABLE IN PRIVY COUNCIL CASE WHERE THE CFA WAS NOT LAWFUL
I am grateful to Andrew Roy KC  for sending me a copy of the judgment of Costs Judge Rowley in Ruhumatally v The State of Mauritius & Anor, a copy of the judgment is available here  Ruhumatally…
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Nicholas Allen KC @nicholasallen29.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I’m delighted that @29br.bsky.social supports @weareadvocate.bsky.social in this way. We were also very pleased to host an event in chambers last week as part of Advocate’s National Pro Bono Week. This Bronze Patron position complements our Guardian tier sponsorship of Support Through Court.
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@james-roberts.bsky.social There you are too!
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@sarahrobsonbarrister.co.uk @deshpalpanesarkc.bsky.social I knew you were here but it’s too quiet 🤣 We need to up our game 👩🏻‍⚖️ Don’t deactivate Twits as you may fancy a return
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Great thread
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Looks in good nick too 👀
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
@templebrief.bsky.social @civlittweet.bsky.social You may like this 🙏🏻 @sommecourt.bsky.social
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Fascinating
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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
WW1 on Film: Our World War. In the latest Old Front Line #podcast we look at this BBC Drama series from 2014 and ask a decade on is it still relevant, and what does it tell us about the Great War? oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/02/08/w...
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WW1 on Film: Our World War
Our World War was a three-part BBC Drama series for the Great War Centenary in 2014 covering the fighting at Mons in 1914, the Somme in 1916 and the Battle of Amiens in 1918. It pioneered a new app…
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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
If you’re enjoying the amazing Nemone Lethbridge on Desert Island Discs then you might be interested in this chat myself and Dr Victoria Humphreys had with her last year. youtu.be/Veg7FEpRVdQ?...
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Nemone Lethbridge & Jimmy O'Connor: War, Prison, Crown Court & The Wednesday Play
YouTube video by Talking History with Humphreys & Reed
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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I was very sad to read today of the passing of the brilliant and wonderful James Turner KC. I was lucky enough to count James amongst my friends. I’ll never forget the kindness he showed to everyone he met. My condolences to his family and the members of 1KBW. www.1kbw.co.uk/news/chamber...
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Chambers mourns the death of James Turner KC | 1 King's Bench Walk
It is with great sadness that Chambers announces the passing of our dear friend and esteemed colleague, James Turner KC, earlier today. James was part of the fabric of 1KBW, and we all mourn his loss....
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Gordon Exall @civlittweet.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Advocacy - does how you dress matter? (This can be a surprisingly controversial topic... ) www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/01/03/a...
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ADVOCACY THE JUDGE’S VIEW IX: DOES WHAT YOU WEAR TO COURT MATTER?
We are revisiting to the series on “Advocacy – the Judge’s view”. This particular post was originally inspired by a search term that arrived on this this blog  “Can a solici…
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
🙏🏻🍸x 👩🏻‍⚖️
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Joanna Cunningham @jomdcunningham888.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
To those keeping us safe today -> & to those we should never forget 🙏🏻🫡 #Respect
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