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The Defence Brief: Has Katie Hopkins incited racial hatred?
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The musings, moans, groans, grumbles and occasional lucid thoughts of an English solicitor-advocate specialising in motoring law at www.londondrinkdrivingsolicitor.co.uk. Monday, 20 April 2015. Has Katie Hopkins incited racial hatred? Katie Hopkins article in the Sun. Sorry but this post is long and contains some actual law. What are the offences? There are two offences that are relevant to this discussion. First is section 18, which makes it an offence to use words or behaviour or a display of writt...
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The Defence Brief: Do I really need a solicitor?
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The musings, moans, groans, grumbles and occasional lucid thoughts of an English solicitor-advocate specialising in motoring law at www.londondrinkdrivingsolicitor.co.uk. Thursday, 30 July 2015. Do I really need a solicitor? I'm not sure what country this court is in but you get the idea. If I had appeared at court I would have been advising this person to expect a disqualification of between 36-48 months plus unpaid work of around 200-hours, taking account of the fact he has no convictions for a decade ...
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The Defence Brief: July 2015
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The musings, moans, groans, grumbles and occasional lucid thoughts of an English solicitor-advocate specialising in motoring law at www.londondrinkdrivingsolicitor.co.uk. Thursday, 30 July 2015. Do I really need a solicitor? I'm not sure what country this court is in but you get the idea. If I had appeared at court I would have been advising this person to expect a disqualification of between 36-48 months plus unpaid work of around 200-hours, taking account of the fact he has no convictions for a decade ...
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The Defence Brief: June 2015
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The musings, moans, groans, grumbles and occasional lucid thoughts of an English solicitor-advocate specialising in motoring law at www.londondrinkdrivingsolicitor.co.uk. Thursday, 4 June 2015. Government to ban psychoactive drugs. Drugs are bad, M'kay" so says South Park Elementary school counsellor Mr Mackey. Clearly, the Home Secretary agrees and has proudly proclaimed that she has banned over 500 drugs in the past 5-years. Secondly, what is a psychoactive drug? The World Health Organisation. Stimulan...
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The Defence Brief: May 2015
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The musings, moans, groans, grumbles and occasional lucid thoughts of an English solicitor-advocate specialising in motoring law at www.londondrinkdrivingsolicitor.co.uk. Wednesday, 6 May 2015. Sexting teens “at risk of child porn charges”. Does sexting put teenagers at risk of a criminal conviction? I read the i newspaper, which is a concise edition of the Independent. For anybody who doesn’t know, a police caution is a form of case disposal in which the suspect confesses to an offence. A caut...YouR...
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The Defence Brief: January 2015
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The musings, moans, groans, grumbles and occasional lucid thoughts of an English solicitor-advocate specialising in motoring law at www.londondrinkdrivingsolicitor.co.uk. Saturday, 31 January 2015. False allegations: a short case study. Justice: weeding out the truth from the lies. well trying to at least. Why do I say that this was a false allegation? Well for a start he had an alibi and not one from his mum! His alibi is that he was home awaiting a delivery and the delivery slot has been confirmed by t...
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The Defence Brief: December 2014
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The musings, moans, groans, grumbles and occasional lucid thoughts of an English solicitor-advocate specialising in motoring law at www.londondrinkdrivingsolicitor.co.uk. Monday, 22 December 2014. Why is rehabilitation treated as a punishment? In the past year he’s committed a couple of minor thefts and been found in possession of heroin, which is why I represented him today. Ultimately, my application for a PSR was refused on the basis that the offence was not sufficiently serious to warrant a punishmen...
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The Defence Brief: I'm not a banker but...
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The musings, moans, groans, grumbles and occasional lucid thoughts of an English solicitor-advocate specialising in motoring law at www.londondrinkdrivingsolicitor.co.uk. Monday, 3 August 2015. I'm not a banker but. Tom Hayes sentenced to 14-years imprisonment for Libor fraud. This afternoon came the news that former City trader for UBS and Citi Bank, Tom Hayes, has been convicted and sentenced to 14-years imprisonment for his part in fixing the London interbank offered rate (Libor). So, what did he do?
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The Defence Brief: October 2014
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The musings, moans, groans, grumbles and occasional lucid thoughts of an English solicitor-advocate specialising in motoring law at www.londondrinkdrivingsolicitor.co.uk. Wednesday, 15 October 2014. I'm always amused by claims made by other solicitors and concerned when a lot of them don't appear to be quite as honest as they should be. One firm I've come across recently claims "94% Cases defended at court! I'm sure that I will continue to hear more bizarre claims from my fellow solicitors in future.
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The Defence Brief: February 2015
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The musings, moans, groans, grumbles and occasional lucid thoughts of an English solicitor-advocate specialising in motoring law at www.londondrinkdrivingsolicitor.co.uk. Tuesday, 24 February 2015. Is grooming girls to join ISIS different to grooming for sexual abuse? Amira Abase, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Shamima Begum, 15, at Gatwick airport. I can understand why somebody would take that attitude but I don’t think it is a position that holds up to analysis. What made those girls return to him? And I&...
