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Kate Leader

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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. www.qmul.ac.uk/law/people/academic-…

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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨 BOOK LAUNCH Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of "Bad" and "Mad" Women by @daanika.bsky.social in conversation with Dr Zoe Asser and Dr Mohsin Bhat 📆.Thursday 1 October 6-8 pm 📍QMUL Mile End, Room 313 and ONLINE Further details and RSVP here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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Book Launch: Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of Mad..
Book Launch: Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of Mad and Bad Women
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Ian Wiggett @wiggett-ie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Podcaster James English is one of many men with far-right ties to have been found guilty or accused of domestic violence
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James English: one of many men with far-right ties accused of domestic violence
Podcaster James English is one of many men with far-right ties to have been found guilty or accused of domestic violence
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
'If, as Winnicot proposed "delinquency is a sign of hope" (indicating the young person feels secure+not 2 worried about consq of aggression) it seems that hope has been gradually snuffed out since the New Labour period.Negative feelings are turned inwards.' @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?
Those who look for the cause of today’s resurgence of Neets in a more recent global shock, the Covid pandemic, need to...
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
'If, as Winnicot proposed "delinquency is a sign of hope" (indicating the young person feels secure+not 2 worried about consq of aggression) it seems that hope has been gradually snuffed out since the New Labour period.Negative feelings are turned inwards.' @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?
Those who look for the cause of today’s resurgence of Neets in a more recent global shock, the Covid pandemic, need to...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Weird watching the right-wing columnist cohort try to collectively pull the handbrake on ethnonationalism. Like the world's biggest hotdog man convention.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
One in ten university students in England is now taught by a franchise. Galileo (which took over Regents University London in 2020) wants to be a privatisation alternative to that model; its acquisitions team has an eye on English universities in financial distress. Coming to a university near us.
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European education group eyes takeovers of UK universities
Britain ‘an appealing market’ for long-term investment, says Galileo chief
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Too much marking to organise a revolution
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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Legality Illusions (one of my favourite ideas in the book as it happens) ... Gazette review piece now on the web rather than the pdf magazine... www.lawgazette.co.uk/people/legal...
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'Legality illusions': An interview with Richard Moorhead
A thorn in the side of Post Office lawyers, academic Richard Moorhead was awarded an OBE for three decades' work on legal ethics. Eduardo Reyes asks him where the profession is going wrong.
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Kevin Jon Heller 🇺🇸🇩🇰 @kevinjonheller.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
New by me @opiniojuris.bsky.social: a long(ish) post on whether the OTP could unilaterally withdraw the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. Spoiler: formally, no; practically, yes. #ICC #Israel #Palestine opiniojuris.org/2026/08/03/c...
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Can the OTP Can Withdraw the Netanyahu and Gallant Arrest Warrants?
In the wake of Prosecutor’s Khan’s removal from office, a number of people have asked me whether the current Deputy Prosecutors or the next Prosecutor could withdraw the arrest warrants…
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Gavin Hales @gmhales.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The latest IOPC 'Deaths during or following police contact' report has been published for 2025/26 (covers England and Wales). Always worth a close reading, esp Ch5 on deaths in or following police custody. Mainly drug/alcohol/MH involved cases, some with underlying health issues.
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ir is desperately disappointing that no one across the political spectrum is prepared to speak up on behalf of universities. Australia has been running this populist nonsense for years and it's just a stick to beat higher education with. www.thetimes.com/article/96f2...
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Andy Burnham vows to put practical education on par with academia
The prime minister will encourage children from age 14 into technical training as part of a radical shift to tackle the rise of ‘Neets’
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ir is desperately disappointing that no one across the political spectrum is prepared to speak up on behalf of universities. Australia has been running this populist nonsense for years and it's just a stick to beat higher education with. www.thetimes.com/article/96f2...
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Andy Burnham vows to put practical education on par with academia
The prime minister will encourage children from age 14 into technical training as part of a radical shift to tackle the rise of ‘Neets’
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Not a chance. Penal populism has motored 99% of criminal justice policy across all political parties since the 1980s. The extensive evidence showing negative outcomes across all metrics has never mattered here.
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yet more evidence supporting the association between actors in far right movements and domestic abuse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse
Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Really interesting case note by Mandy Burton on Hobday & consent to harm in OATP, domestic abuse, gender & coercive control and revisiting Brown onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Consent and Gender‐Based Violence: <i>R</i> v <i>Hobday</i>
This note analyses the Court of Appeal decision in R v Hobday in the context of the longstanding but controversial caselaw on the relevance of consent to offences of assault occasioning actual bodily...
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Really interesting case note by Mandy Burton on Hobday & consent to harm in OATP, domestic abuse, gender & coercive control and revisiting Brown onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Consent and Gender‐Based Violence: <i>R</i> v <i>Hobday</i>
This note analyses the Court of Appeal decision in R v Hobday in the context of the longstanding but controversial caselaw on the relevance of consent to offences of assault occasioning actual bodily...
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Chicago Manual of Style (notes bibliography) forever. A simple superscript number in text, a neat footnote and no interruptions to writing fluency.
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I mean you really only have to look at the quality of their chocolate to find the best metaphor for Belgium vs USA
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Are you a crim practitioner in E&W? Do you have 1 hour to spare? @jessicashurson.bsky.social and I need participants for our pilot study: "Hearsay From a Computer: Legal Professionals' Perceptions of Computer + AI derived evidence." We want to talk to you! Details here www.hearsayproject.com Pls RT!
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Hearsay From a Computer | hearsay; AI; evidence
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JUSTICE @justicehq.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
JUSTICE is deeply saddened by the death of Sir Roy Goode, the leading commercial law scholar of his generation and founder of CCLS at Queen Mary, University of London. Roy was one of our longest standing members and we will sorely miss him. Our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.
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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yesterday I submitted the proofs, index and tables for my forthcoming book 'Human Rights and the Protection of Domestic Workers in Labour and Migration Law.' It's scheduled for publication on 10 September 2026 and available for pre-order :) global.oup.com/academic/pro...
A picture showing houses with pointed roofs in bright colours, with the text 'Human Rights and the Protection of Domestic Workers in Labour and Migration Law - Natalie Sedacca - Oxford Labour Law
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Are you a crim practitioner in E&W? Do you have 1 hour to spare? @jessicashurson.bsky.social and I need participants for our pilot study: "Hearsay From a Computer: Legal Professionals' Perceptions of Computer + AI derived evidence." We want to talk to you! Details here www.hearsayproject.com Pls RT!
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Hearsay From a Computer | hearsay; AI; evidence
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Another stupid Mahmood idea - getting “trained” members of the public to decide asylum cases - is ripped to shreds here by someone who knows what they’re talking about… Politicians have truly lost their minds on immigration. It’s making us a very wretched and angry place.
Asylum appeals
Sir, Muddled government thinking is contlating the law, resources and the judiciary ("Public to decide asylum appeals as Mahmood jettisons judges", Jun 29). Nothing except its own ambivalence prevents a government with a large majority from changing the law on immigration and human rights, and nothing except its own misplaced expenditure priorities prevent it from funding the courts and tribunals system to eliminate the backlogs.
The task of the immigration judiciary is to decide whether, on return to their home country, an asylum seeker faces a real risk of persecution. This can mean torture and death, so immigration judges exercise the nearest that the UK now has to a capital jurisdiction. That responsibility, which I exercised for 20 years, requires accumulated legal training, skill, experience and judgment. Replacing a body of people exercising those proven attributes with one that lacks all of them and will not be operational until the end of next year is nonsensical. It will imperil appellants and will undoubtedly increase the number of applications to the High Court for judicial review. We have only to imagine a proposed crash course for applicants from different backgrounds with no medical knowledge for surgical hospital positions.
Dr Jonathan Lewis
Designated immigration judge (ret'd), Pinner
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
God I love a penalty shootout and I particularly love a dramatic World Cup upset. Nothing tops seeing smaller teams fans go berserk when they topple the bigger teams. Go Paraguay! www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Canale and Gill the heroes as Paraguay hand Germany first World Cup shootout defeat
Germany lost their first World Cup penalty shootout in dramatic fashion after a tense 1-1 draw after extra time
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
More info on the Mahmoud asylum hearing proposals - paid part time and full time volunteer laypersons to replace judges and adjudicate in new immigration appeals body - ⬇️⬇️ www.thetimes.com/article/ae1c...
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Public to decide asylum appeals as Mahmood jettisons judges
As part of reforms by the home secretary to accelerate the process, hundreds of ordinary members of the public will be trained up as adjudicators
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
More info on the Mahmoud asylum hearing proposals - paid part time and full time volunteer laypersons to replace judges and adjudicate in new immigration appeals body - ⬇️⬇️ www.thetimes.com/article/ae1c...
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Public to decide asylum appeals as Mahmood jettisons judges
As part of reforms by the home secretary to accelerate the process, hundreds of ordinary members of the public will be trained up as adjudicators
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Expecting lots of coverage on their race too.
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Men who allegedly helped rapist drug and abuse wife can be named
13 men are accused of helping a man abuse his wife over a period of years.
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
reading Mahmood's proposal for new appeals body in immigration tribunal of "professional" but "non judicial" members and wondering what this means. like non-legal members in employment tribunals? Or trained volunteers like magistracy? Does anyone have an idea? media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/IA...
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Cracking piece of academic commentary on the Palestine Action appeal case. Bravo @alangreene.bsky.social @colinmurray.bsky.social @daniellalock.bsky.social
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Attention Australians: these are now in UK supermarkets.
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Our annual @qmschooloflaw.bsky.social Criminal Justice Centre conference on Conspiracy Theories and Pseudolaw is this Thurs/Fri online/in-person at Queen Mary. Everything freemason, sov cits, freemen of the land and micronations! Full programme below and free reg here: pseudolaw.org/events/
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
All eyes to the Court of Appeal in London at 11am for the hand down of a special five judge decision (in light of the importance of the issues at stake) on the lawfulness of the UK Govt's Palestine Action ban: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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High Court to rule on Palestine Action terror group ban
Three judges ruled in February that the then-home secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action was unlawful
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Our annual @qmschooloflaw.bsky.social Criminal Justice Centre conference on Conspiracy Theories and Pseudolaw is this Thurs/Fri online/in-person at Queen Mary. Everything freemason, sov cits, freemen of the land and micronations! Full programme below and free reg here: pseudolaw.org/events/
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Any recent non-fiction recommendations? Just finished - and enjoyed - London Falling.
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Legal historians! I've just read that "Between 1800-1850, there were more than two hundred recorded cases of wife sales in England." IS THIS TRUE??
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Public Sector Lawyer @publicsectorlawyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The Tommy Cooper School of political commentary. www.thetimes.com/article/beca...
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Any recent non-fiction recommendations? Just finished - and enjoyed - London Falling.
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Trinket @trinketbirdy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Love this city. The racists are all stuck in a shit pub rn being yelled at by *checks notes* Fatboy slim?
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Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
On honour and heroes. Just an absolutely amazing clip that puts a few things in perspective...
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On honour and heroes
So, this is weird. I have just been awarded an OBE. I am grinding my teeth a bit at the Empire thing, whilst feeling very pleased with myself and knowing, too, that things often just kind of fall in your lap. Or how often it really is who you know, rather than what you know. Or even more so, who your friends and fellow workers are.
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
No kidding. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Drug diversion schemes cut reoffending rates more than prosecution, study says
Exclusive: Research in England shows people a third less likely to reoffend under decriminalisation-style schemes
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Bryann Thomas @bryannthomas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
These concerns are legitimate, those concerns are terrorism.
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Theres a season 2 of Not For Want of Trying! This has absolutely made my day. Highly recommended to all blueskyers who like me love to dork out on legal history - the show is all about womens legal landmarks and is EXCELLENT podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
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The Story Behind the Forced Marriage Act (Pragna Patel)
Podcast Episode · Not for Want of Trying · 10 June · 43min
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 12/06/2026
David Hockney: a sublime artist — and the life and soul of every party www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...
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David Hockney: a sublime artist — and the life and soul of every party
He was a Yorkshire lad, a Renaissance man, a superlative draughtsman and a brilliant talker. By 2023 he’d had more than 400 exhibitions but was “just getting going”
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Pinning this to my screen
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Of the 48 people arrested in relation to the race related disorder last year, of 23 had been reported for domestic abuse. Nearly half. Even worse than the proportion in the Southport riots which as quite bad enough. Domestic abuse looking like a 🚩 marker for wider race related violence & disorder
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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
📣New article alert! Prof @henryyeomans.bsky.social and his co-author have a new #OpenAccess article out in the British Journal of Criminology: 'The emergence of criminology in Britain: A systematic review of the Journal of the Statistical Society of London , 1838–57'👇 tinyurl.com/3r8u9zbu
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The emergence of criminology in Britain: A systematic review of the Journal of the Statistical Society of London, 1838–57
Abstract. British crime research expanded significantly from the mid-1830s. Much of this first wave of empirical research was published in the Journal of t
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Justice Committee report on Courts and Tribunals Bill out today ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️ emphasising submission concerns on mag court capacity, mag sentencing powers, loss of automatic appeal, mag recruitment, process of allocation and equality issues in narrowing jury trials committees.parliament.uk/publications...
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