Chris Hook ⚖️

Solicitor (charity & education), school governor, charity trustee, ex-linguist & honorary Geordie.

Views are my own.

Retweets & follows ≠ endorsements.

[Chris Hook ⚖️ @CNDHook]

Hello. Today I took part in an online thought experiment discussing the law of self-defence. Just to be clear : none of these events happened. I have never been arrested and I have never lawfully or unlawfully killed anyone. Thank you.

[Chris Hook ⚖️ @CNDHook]

@lewis_goodall If this is correct, it is hard to see (as a matter of charity law) how adopting a blanket objection policy would be consistent with its charitable status.

[Chris Hook ⚖️ @CNDHook]

@RaminNasibov Repton (and sequels) on the Acorn Electron

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[Chris Hook ⚖️ @CNDHook]

@ConHome This tweet is grossly ill-judged. Please think harder and make better choices.

[Jim Dickinson @jim_dickinson]

In a week's time, the duties on SUs under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act kick in, as does the new complaints scheme - but OfS' response to the consultations on how those duties will work has still not been published. It's completely unreasonable and unacceptable to expect SUs to comply with duties that OfS has failed to answer questions on, clarify or resolve the ongoing questions on.

[Rob Preston @rb_preston]

Interesting figures from the Charity Commission:

Charity applications reach record high (9k) amid “cost-of-living challenges and international instability”

New inquiries (89), whistleblowing reports (561) and serious incidents (3.1k) all up in 2023-24

[Chris Hook ⚖️ @CNDHook]

@TomTugendhat It's a daft comment based on a Telegraph front page and which asks us to ignore the last Govt's record and irresponsibility. So, naturally, I assume that Tom Tugendhat is getting ready to announce his bid for Tory leader?

[Chris Hook ⚖️ @CNDHook]

@Samfr If anything, the initial decision to do nothing, combined now with this belated decision to do something, just reinforces the notion that he is weak, indecisive and ethically out of sync. How he is this bad at politics?

[Chris Hook ⚖️ @CNDHook]

Is this real? Surely the PM didn't say this. I've seen the video and can't actually believe my ears. Incredible lack of self-awareness.

[Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons]

An extended case study on why this is a self defeating argument - using Teesside University, which Simon is rightly very proud of.

[Chris Hook ⚖️ @CNDHook]

@SpinningHugo Butler-Sloss v CC established that charity trustees have a considerably wider latitude in determining a suitable investment policy than previously thought. Key would be to link the divestment decision to the University's charitable purposes (rather than purely on moral grounds).

[Civil Society @CivilSocietyUK]

.@AndrewPurkis: Does the Commission really have no regulatory concerns about the IEA? https://t.co/QITO7vAXiD

[The Chronicle @ChronicleLive]

The charitable trust has already burned through all of the funding it was offered by the council to help see it through its first 10 years
https://t.co/BnCwLdLLD5

[Civil Society @CivilSocietyUK]

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity has reported itself to two charity regulators after its subcontracted fundraisers were accused of using “pressure-selling techniques” https://t.co/BaRca2RHMk

[Debra Allcock Tyler @DebAllcockTyler]

https://t.co/2ES4IqzbG3

[Chris Walker @_c_walker]

As the election draws closer we've teamed up with @ACEVO to help charities understand the law and campaign with confidence.

[Chris Hook ⚖️ @CNDHook]

@RichardMoorhead I blame the Romans.

[Chris Hook ⚖️ @CNDHook]

@rcolvile It's an interesting argument. But you have to wonder: at what point does the chain of causation break down? When Benn stopped being Technology Minister in 1970? When Thatcher won in 1979? Or Blair in 1997? When he died in 2014? Ps. I know you didn't choose the headline.

[John Hyde @JohnHyde1982]

Highly recommend Mr Bates v The Post Office which starts tonight. A brilliant and timely telling of how the worst miscarriage in British legal history came to happen.

https://t.co/AUkNW9ScZG

[Alexander Horne @AlexanderHorne1]

I am slightly flabbergasted that the migration debate has taken this rather appalling turn.

The truth is that foreign students subsidise U.K. higher education.

We should be grateful for the income that they bring. The research that they conduct . And that some wish to stay…