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Rachel Leow

@rachleow.bsky.social
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Academic private lawyer. Loves cats. Casual gymnastics fan.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Splendid decision which turns in part on whether a judge being in bed is the basis for a legal challenge.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/09/2026
in 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!]
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/07/2026
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Correcting an earlier error - “You’ll have to prize it from my cold dead hands” was not, in fact, a design suggestion.
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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Is it milk? A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Supermarket bosses who list their rock hard fruit as “perfectly ripe” should be forced to eat it in front of us all. The liars!
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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The 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...
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Appointment of Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Find out who the new appointees are and read their biographies
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 14/05/2025
Wisteria 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
Wisteria hanging in front of Magdalen CollegeThe Queens College building with wisteria hanging over the wallThe Radcliffe Observatory in the background with sisteria hanging over a wall and opened gate in the foreground Wisteria hanging on a wall and over windows. There is an arch way to walk through
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Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Johnston 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)
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Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
My article on the role of mutual consent justifications in agency law now out in the OJLS, available open access! academic.oup.com/ojls/article...
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Clarifying Mutual Consent’s Role in Agency Law
Abstract. Important cases and academic commentators have suggested that the mutual consent of principal and agent is necessary for actual authority to be c
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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Alexander 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.
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Timothy 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/n
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LinkedIn
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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I’ve written something on punishment and its scope within private law. It’s open access. Link: academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...
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Punitive 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
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Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
My 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/...
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Lionel Smith, The Law of Loyalty, Oxford: OUP, 2023, 496 pp, hb £97.00
Click on the article title to read more.
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Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywll... Great documentary. The POB style in full display. Particularly great in Raymonda, not even a ballet I like much.
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Paris Opera's Star Ballet Dancer: Aurélie Dupont's Unmatched Grace | SLICE WHO | FULL DOCUMENTARY
YouTube video by SLICE Who?
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Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
An 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)
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Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Finally some updates on leasehold reform from the new government. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
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Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
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Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Off 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...
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CPLC 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
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Rachel Leow @rachleow.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hello to all, I’ve come from the dark side!
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