Ginny Dearn

Off to the Bar

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Ah, hello old friend.

It’s been a while.

Let’s hop back on the horse: Why this story about legal aid is as misleading as it is brainless.

[THREAD] 🧵

#LegalAidLies

[Ginny Dearn @DearnGinny]

Is a stick of rock the delicacy of every British seaside town or just any British town that isn’t the one that you live in?

[Ginny Dearn @DearnGinny]

@DanaeLarham If you meet Ray from Witness Service, he’s my Grandad! Have a great day in my home city ❤️

[Icona @iconawrites]

Women only want one thing, and it’s the complete Clothbound Classics Penguin collection.

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@WomenInCrimLaw @WithersLLP Ginny Dearn

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@WomenInCrimLaw @SMW_Law Ginny Dearn - this is such a good one!!

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@WomenInCrimLaw @7HSChambers @5SAHLaw @2KBW Ginny Dearn

[Ginny Dearn @DearnGinny]

Who’s coming?

[Middle Temple @middletemple]

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[Middle Temple @middletemple]

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[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

Training to be a criminal barrister: 5 years.

Cost of bar course: c.£13,000

Role: Complex, sensitive human & legal problems. Distressing material. Punishing hours.

Responsibility: High. People may be sent to prison.

Median annual income for juniors in first 3 years?

£12,200

[Judicial Office @JudiciaryUK]

The Wayne Couzens sentencing remarks given by Lord Justice Fulford can now be found online.
https://t.co/uz1B5HmLK1

[ViewFromTheNorth (JHKC) 🐝 @jaimerh354]

It’s #notallmen. But saying that is trite. It’s obviously not all men. Saying it is almost always men and that all men can, recognises the problem. You can either recognise the problem or be part of the problem. Until all men recognise the problem, we have a problem.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

I see you all telling your Magistrates’ Court nightmare stories but silliness happens both sides of the bench. Huge shout out to the lawyer who ended a speech - grappling for a philosophical quote to give it some welly - and said “In the words of Avril Lavigne, It’s complicated.”

[Sarah Forshaw KC @SarahForshaw1]

The attitude to pupils is one of the things I love about this profession. I just wish someone had spelt it out to me when I was a young hopeful. (Of course we didn’t have funded pupillage then - but the altruism was the same.) I dare say @10DowningStreet is even happier about it.

[Dan Scothern @dan_scothern]

PSA: the mission to end the year with a less embarrassing Spotify Wrapped starts right here folks.

[Ginny Dearn @DearnGinny]

@piersmorgan @Goodmorningfans

[Ginny Dearn @DearnGinny]

This, if anything, needs to be discussed! https://t.co/Y1gRkKiaUo

[Ginny Dearn @DearnGinny]

The sad reality of pursuing a career at the Bar is an expected pupillage award of this amount, below minimum wage. For many, a salary cut from whatever they’ve been doing in the meantime whether that be working as a bar maid or as a paralegal.

[Bar Standards Board @barstandards]

For 2021 the minimum #pupillage award will be £18,960 in London and £16,601 outside London. Further details on our website: https://t.co/Q8YBXCH40e