Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yes, and slurry is what your speech becomes after too much red diesel… 010 0
Reposted by Paul Magrath writerColin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Great news that Justin Bates KC will be trying to keep the Nearly Legal housing law blog going despite the very sad death of its founder, Giles Peaker. Justin needs help, though. If you are into housing law, take a look: nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/08/tech...nearlylegal.co.ukTechnical difficulties and plans for the future - Nearly Legal: Housing Law News and CommentI am sorry that the site has been down for a few days. It was nothing more complicated than missed payments to the hosting company which Giles had been unable to authorise, for obvious reasons. I want... 17035 0
Reposted by Paul Magrath writerFamily Law News @familylaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/divorce...lawgazette.co.ukDivorce order finally made after 15 listed hearingsCase went before several judges, highlighting pressure imposed on courts by parties failing to engage properly. 011 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Why mow the lawn when you can just have fake grass? 020 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Maybe next time they ask if I have any allergies I should mention an intolerance for excess sodium chloride. See how they cope. 011 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Why do so many fancy restaurants put so much salt into their food? Do their chefs taste anything? Can they taste anything? 121 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Thing that was someone else’s fault is now everyone else’s fault. 031 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It was shocking for us, for years. But we now use Zen for broadband and so far it’s been excellent. 010 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026If you use Virgin Media, you have a service problem. The problem is their service. 110 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026 Blimey www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...bbc.co.ukGiant iceberg turns over near Greenland's coastVideo captured by a passerby showed the moment the iceberg collapsed, creating a big wave. 012 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026That explosion at the end of Mahler's Sixth. It's like a bomb going off at the end of a film. open.spotify.com/album/0dZSUE...open.spotify.comMahler: Symphony No. 6 - Album by Gustav Mahler | SpotifyGustav Mahler · album · 2021 · 4 songs 000 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Why are they sitting on a massive fur coat? In summer? 001 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I loved The Goodies as a child and still have my 7” single of the Funky Gibbon. As a family treat my dad took us to a live recording of a Goodies episode in the TV studios. They did their own warm up, making jokes about each other and engaging with the audience. They were lovely. 041 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 26/07/2026If they eat your wallet the tracker will enable you to Find My Fox 060 0
Reposted by Paul Magrath writerFamiloo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 11/07/2026www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...thebureauinvestigates.comFamily courts: new rules bar unregulated experts from giving evidenceChanges coming into effect this month will keep unregulated experts out of courts in all but exceptional cases 155 0
Reposted by Paul Magrath writeridioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Are Gilbert & Sullivan headlining? 001 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026By any definition of the Establishment, public school educated city trader in suit and tie Nigel Farage fits it perfectly. He’s raving at the bathroom mirror. 000 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Thanks. I see what you mean. I sympathise with idea that CCRC should really focus its limited resources on living appellants (eg Malkinson case), and the question of revisiting historic DP injustices should be by way of some sort of inquiry, rather than a court. 030 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026But is that a purely right wing concern? Or is the government being “bounced” by something a bit more nuanced? 200 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026What’s your point? Where’s the full citation? 100 0
Reposted by Paul Magrath writeridioms4idiots.bsky.social @idioms4idiots.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Cometh the hour… cometh the [man] (or woman?) 011 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I don't normally comment on ecclesiastical law, but this one was a bit special. So long, Marianne. www.iclr.co.uk/blog/comment... 011 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Especially @islington-council.bsky.social where I live 000 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Westminster tries where other councils seem to fail Dangerously parked e-bikes seized by council www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDangerously parked e-bikes seized by Westminster CouncilThe bikes will be released when the operator pays a penalty for its customers' poor parking. 100 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Open justice depends on observers and reporters transparencyproject.org.uk/finding-a-jo...transparencyproject.org.ukFinding a journalist to attend your family court hearingWe get many requests to The Transparency Project for one of our legal bloggers to attend court hearings and/or to suggest a journalist who can attend and report 000 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This could so easily have been a parkin offence. 051 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I think they have the technology to enforce better behaviour but won’t use it. Bad parking for example. 000 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This 100% www.thetimes.com/article/432b...thetimes.comReckless hire bike riders need to learn rules of the roadRental companies must also take some responsibility for road safety and compensate victims injured by their customers 000 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Should Andy Burnham’s new constituency be called Makerwish, perhaps? Fulfilment not guaranteed. 000 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Want to walk along the pavement? Too bad! #Limescale @london.gov.uk @rbkc.gov.uk 040 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 23/06/2026NO CONTEST? Burnham would come to Downingsinane without a further election. Sounds like a coup, albeit a bloodless one. 000 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 13/06/2026giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... UK police officer under criminal investigation over alleged use of AIgiftarticle.ft.comUK police officer under criminal investigation over alleged use of AIDerbyshire Police says officer probed over allegations of perverting the course of justice 000 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Are we talking about hallucinating evidence? UK police officer under criminal investigation over alleged use of AI 110 0
Reposted by Paul Magrath writerThe Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 06/06/2026“I did what I could, not what I ought to have. That’s what we do, writers. We don’t do what we ought. We do what we can.” —Jane Gardambuff.lyJane Gardam, The Art of Fiction No. 251“What I really believe is that there are no minor characters in life or in art.” 061 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Though I would never use AI for creative writing, it has its uses in the law, one of which is rendering a complex fact-finding judgment simple enough for the litigants themselves to understand, particularly when they have learning difficulties. transparencyproject.org.uk/make-it-simp...transparencyproject.org.ukMake it simple! Make it clear! Using AI to improve clarity and understanding of a judgmentIn what we think may be a first, the judgment in a recent fact-finding case was handed down with two additional versions, generated with artificial intelligence 000 0
Reposted by Paul Magrath writerKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 12/05/2026Guillotines on every platform in the land to deal with people who don't use headphones/people who don't stand on the right/people who don't move down the bloody carriage and platform/people who don't let passengers off the train first. Sensible policies for sensible people. 12607 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Tanks for nothing, comrade! (Or some equivalent pun must be in order. Come on the tabloids! You can do it! ) Steve Rosenberg: This year's Victory Day parade in Moscow felt very different www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukRosenberg: This year's Victory Day parade in Moscow felt very differentThe BBC's Russia editor reports from a Red Square with none of the military hardware which the Kremlin normally showcases to project power internationally. 011 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Social change has been slow in some parts of London, and some dwellings still have outside toilets. 051 0
Paul Magrath writer @maggotlaw.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Before Twitter and Bailii the Seven Stars behind the RCJ was where the news and gossip went round. All the journos dropped by to swap notes about the day’s judgments. 270 0