Reposted by Rachel LeowThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Splendid decision which turns in part on whether a judge being in bed is the basis for a legal challenge. 3211
Reposted by Rachel LeowMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/09/2026in this week's newsletter! I didn't have phone internet in Beijing so instead I wrote down every single nonsense English slogan I saw on people's t-shirts, and it may be my magnum opus: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/some-beiji... [free to read!] 5027444
Reposted by Rachel LeowTomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Correcting an earlier error - “You’ll have to prize it from my cold dead hands” was not, in fact, a design suggestion. 714836
Reposted by Rachel LeowBen Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Is it milk? A handy guide to measuring like a Brit. 2738599
Reposted by Rachel LeowGaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Supermarket bosses who list their rock hard fruit as “perfectly ripe” should be forced to eat it in front of us all. The liars! 410611
Reposted by Rachel LeowShoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025The King has approved the appointment of six Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal. He has been pleased to approve the appointments of Mrs Justice Cockerill, Mr Justice Dove, Mr Justice Foxton, Mrs Justice May, Mr Justice Miles and Mrs Justice Yip. www.judiciary.uk/appointments...judiciary.ukAppointment of Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal - Courts and Tribunals JudiciaryFind out who the new appointees are and read their biographies 2412
Reposted by Rachel LeowUniversity of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 14/05/2025Wisteria Wednesday ✨ 1. @magdalenoxford.bsky.social | estherjohnsonphotography 2. @queenscollegeox.bsky.social | mjs110 3. @greentempleton.bsky.social | os_phot_os 4. @stedmundhall.bsky.social | spiralling_oxford #Spring2025 0398
Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Johnston v Financial Ombudsman Service [2025] EWCA Civ 551: www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC.... Discusses mental incapacity to commence proceedings - if found, the potential consequence are that all steps taken in relation to the litigation and the orders granted by courts in that litigation (cont'd) 120
Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 27/03/2025My article on the role of mutual consent justifications in agency law now out in the OJLS, available open access! academic.oup.com/ojls/article...academic.oup.comClarifying Mutual Consent’s Role in Agency LawAbstract. Important cases and academic commentators have suggested that the mutual consent of principal and agent is necessary for actual authority to be c 131
Reposted by Rachel LeowTimothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Alexander Georgiou and I have co-authored a paper-- 'Are Equitable Remedies Discretionary?'-- published in the latest issue of the Journal of Equity. The issue includes a lecture by Justice Leeming, Supreme Court of NSW. Pre-prints: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... cite as (2025) 18 J Eq 246. 033
Reposted by Rachel LeowTimothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 12/03/2025<CfP for SLS 'Remedies and Restitution'>: A gentle reminder of the call for papers and panels for the "Remedies and Restitution" section of the 2025 Society of Legal Scholars’ Annual Conference to be held at Leeds University, from 2nd-4th September. Link: lnkd.in/dRJh7rHS 1/nlnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 113
Reposted by Rachel LeowTimothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I’ve written something on punishment and its scope within private law. It’s open access. Link: academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...academic.oup.comPunitive Disentitlement Within Private Law?Abstract. Does private law punish? Should it? I question whether private law punishes in a form other than through a court order of punitive damages, by ex 042
Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 31/12/2024My review of Lionel Smith's The Law of Loyalty (OUP 2023) has now come out in the MLR! Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comLionel Smith, The Law of Loyalty, Oxford: OUP, 2023, 496 pp, hb £97.00Click on the article title to read more. 051
Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 05/12/2024www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywll... Great documentary. The POB style in full display. Particularly great in Raymonda, not even a ballet I like much.youtube.comParis Opera's Star Ballet Dancer: Aurélie Dupont's Unmatched Grace | SLICE WHO | FULL DOCUMENTARYYouTube video by SLICE Who? 010
Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 27/11/2024An old favourite. "At times it felt as if [counsel's] approach to the authorities was akin to poking a long dead fire with a stick in the hope that it would re-light" Deane v Coutts [2018] EWHC 1657 (Ch) 000
Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Finally some updates on leasehold reform from the new government. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...questions-statements.parliament.ukWritten statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK ParliamentInformation from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports. 010
Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Off to Cambridge next week to talk about whether parents can (ie have the legal power to) sell their children's property! Come by if you are around. www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events...law.cam.ac.ukCPLC Lunchtime seminar: 'Can Parents Sell Their Children’s Property'Speaker: Dr Rachel Leow (LSE) Sandwiches served in the Lower Ground Atrium between 12.30pm and 1pm; seminar to commence in S19 at 1pm. Open to Faculty members, visitors, invitees and LLM/MCL/PhD 020