Gus Silverman

Civil liberties solicitor. Heads the Bristol Actions Against the Police team at @dpg_law. Views my own.

[Gus Silverman @GSilverman1]

@legalhackette Bluesky

[BBC Bristol @BBCBristol]

About 1,500 people people are in Old Market in #Bristol - who have gathered to oppose rumoured anti-immigration protests.

It comes as police have been given enhanced powers ahead of any demonstrations ➡️ https://t.co/AfUR9Z26Ym

[Tristan Cork Post @TristanCorkPost]

Huge numbers in West Street, Bristol. The street is full of people as far as the eye can see
Updates here:
https://t.co/FM26EQK4ps

[Gus Silverman @GSilverman1]

@sfhosali @whatKatydidnext Solidarity Sanchita

[Gus Silverman @GSilverman1]

@BristolAFed could you follow me so I can DM?

[Gus Silverman @GSilverman1]

@TristanCorkPost Do you reckon it will make St John's lane any less busy??

[Martin Booth @beardedjourno]

If you read one opinion piece today, I wholeheartedly recommend this one by Bristol24/7 reporter Karen Johnson (@karenswaron), who no longer feels safe in her adopted city https://t.co/aLNM2ZnUnq

[Bristol Anarchist Federation 🏴 @BristolAFed]

@bristol_citizen From the slave trade, work discrimination, to policing, to poverty levels... while Bristol has a histoiry of anti-racism, lets not pretend it doesn't have one of racism as well.

[Tristan Cork Post @TristanCorkPost]

For all those asking, in Bristol, there’s a brilliant charity called @AidBoxCommunity who help people recently arrived in the city.
Find out more about them here, & do RT

https://t.co/TRdf6AqFjK

[Gus Silverman @GSilverman1]

Really strange that there weren't sufficient officers outside of the hotel to begin with, given the far-right organisers made very clear that was their target

[Martin Booth @beardedjourno]

A human shield heroically held back anti-immigration protesters last night at a hotel housing asylum seekers. A major question from yesterday is why it took police so long to arrive at the Mercure when protesters had earlier said that was their destination https://t.co/I0VE9jhm1l

[Martin Booth @beardedjourno]

A fundraiser has been set up to buy toys and sweets for children living at a hotel for asylum seekers that was attacked yesterday by a far-right mob https://t.co/hwYFZlPh1X

[Tristan Cork Post @TristanCorkPost]

It was not the police who initially protected the people inside the hotel from the violent mob, it was a group of Bristol people, who lined up to face them down. The police arrived later
https://t.co/wgjNOrCgkS

[Tristan Cork Post @TristanCorkPost]

Outside a hotel in Redcliffe, Bristol - the hotel is being protected by hundreds of Bristolians shouting ‘We are many, you are few. We are Bristol, who are you?’ to a group of around 100 protesters who had marched on the hotel

[Adm. Court Blog @admcourtblog]

Courts urge restraint in judicial review of prosecutorial decisions

https://t.co/CDkz7Zn3G2

[DoughtyStPublic @DoughtyStPublic]

High Court have overturned on appeal a decision striking out a claim against Sussex Police and Crown Prosecution Service on grounds of witness and advocate immunity.

The claim involved unauthorised disclosures of the confidential addresses of a domestic abuse survivor to her violent ex-partner by the police and CPS, forcing her to seek refuge on two occasions.

Fiona Murphy KC and Frederick Powell represented the Appellant in this successful appeal against a strike-out and summary judgment decision, setting an important precedent for victims in this developing area of law.

[Gus Silverman @GSilverman1]

@__theskipper__ I'm not sure that's a description of the public interest that the IOPC would adopt!

[Deighton Pierce Glynn @dpg_law]

Significant four-day trial to begin in High Court challenging the use of RAF Wethersfield as asylum accommodation https://t.co/khg8rNRO5Q

[Tom Wall @_tomwall]

Rents in Bristol are rising faster than anywhere else in this country. The result families & workers living in vans & caravans. My Observer report from the UK's vehicle dwelling capital👇
https://t.co/gKe02i13P8

[Gus Silverman @GSilverman1]

https://t.co/PdwMSzun5d

[Deighton Pierce Glynn @dpg_law]

University of Bristol rejects calls for a 'meaningful' apology for discrimination linked to the death of Natasha Abrahart and @EHRC publishes an “Advice note for the higher education sector from the legal case of University of Bristol vs Abrahart” https://t.co/eaJCtFfLlD