Rebecca Musgrove

Family Barrister. Tweeting in personal capacity. Views are entirely my own.

[Rebecca Musgrove @RAMusgrove]

@AvaiaLaw Congratulations! Glad you'll be joining us!

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

That prepared statement was like watching a defendant’s evidence-in-chief after a no comment interview, quietly admiring the artful way he’s explaining the evidence and circling the parts that are going to make for delicious cross-examination.

[Lucy Reed @Familoo]

@MD_Maynard @CEOofHMCTS I genuinely can’t think of any proper reason why not. I’ve tried to work out why they might need to withold / manage it in this way but I’m stumped!

[Lucy Reed @Familoo]

@_millymoo @MD_Maynard @CEOofHMCTS What struck me was that court staff are to be consulted during the carrying out of these assessments, but not the many many other professionals expected to be using the courts daily and who have a different set of needs and risks.

[Rebecca Musgrove @RAMusgrove]

This! @PippaCrerar @lewis_goodall @adamboultonSKY Today more than ever we need direct short focused questions so the full facts can be established

[Raphael Hogarth @Raphael_Hogarth]

I hope there are lots of short, simple, factual questions at 4pm, and not lots of "what is your message to all the people who feel let down" and "is it one rule for you and another for everyone else" which, though important, will be very easily evaded.

E.g.:

[Anthony Blair @anthonyblair94]

Weston General Hospital sees 40% of staff test positive as coronavirus cases at hospital double https://t.co/8aBL2yQhrF

[It's a lawyer's life @itsalawyerslife]

This personal and powerful article has become one of our most read pieces since it was written.

The child in care who grew up to become a child care lawyer

https://t.co/EmFmFmFRuL

[FLBA @FamilyLawBar]

3/3 There will be continued demands from all Associations until you get sign offs from Public Health and post all risk assessments and end the direction not to email risk assessments. @ResFamilyLaw @thebarcouncil @TheLawSociety @Tweets_ALC @seethrujustice CLQC

[Antoinette Sandbach @Sandbach]

Who from @10DowningStreet briefed the @FT @mrjamesob @LibDems @PickardJE @SebastianEPayne @BethRigby

[Rebecca Musgrove @RAMusgrove]

Legal Twitter- Please retweet and share some much needed publicity on the actions of HMCTS. It is vital we have transparency about the risk assessments that have been undertaken of our courts @davidallengreen @CivilLitTweet @AdamWagner1 @BarristerSecret @ParklanePlowden

[FLBA @FamilyLawBar]

DFJ for London tells me I cannot access risk assessment unless I attend in person because of this from HMCTS:”A copy will not be provided, nor should the document be provided by email.” This will NOT do. I receive many emails from worried members about court safety.@CEOofHMCTS

[Rebecca Musgrove @RAMusgrove]

Outrageous behaviour from @CEOofHMCTS

[FLBA @FamilyLawBar]

1/3 Having praised you and the team @CEOofHMCTS I am concerned to see HMCTS have directed CFC not to send me and others their risk assessment by email. I have to attend in person to receive this in person !!!! This is UNACCEPTABLE. Told up to 10 courts are opening at CFC ! CLQC

[Rebecca Musgrove @RAMusgrove]

Great leadership from the FLBA! There must be transparency and we must ensure Courts are safe before we return

[FLBA @FamilyLawBar]

I will discuss this with senior judiciary this week. You will receive strong leadership. I will not compromise the safety of my members and their reasonable request to see assessments without travelling to court to do so. Transparency is key. Retweet all please. CLQC

[Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak]

Dominic Cummings is expected to give a public statement and take questions later himself, as calls for him to quit and explain himself mount

[Ian Blackford @blackfordian1]

There cannot be one rule for the Tory government and another for the rest of us. Over 240,000 people have already signed this petition. You can add your voice to tell @BorisJohnson we won’t be treated like fools: https://t.co/rLhy6Nsgso

[Kirsty Brimelow KC @Kirsty_Brimelow]

Did Dominic Cummings act "Responsibly and Legally"? (via Passle) by @Kirsty_Brimelow https://t.co/AnkQQqvkF7

[Rosie Weldon @Rosieweldon118]

Anyone who thinks the child being autistic excuses this behaviour has no idea what the autism community has been through these past few months.

AND still followed the rules.

We have persevered and now get dragged through this.

Autism isn’t an excuse. It’s not a card to play

[Steph McGovern @StephLunch]

Just in case it crops up in any conversations you’re having, it’s pronounced ‘Barn-ad Castle’.
#BarnardCastle

[Gareth Price @GarethPricePLP]

2dys after lockdown I brought my wife home with our twin girls, 24hrs after her c section. Been in&out of hospital w the youngest since then. Thought about help w childcare a fair few times. If only I'd been a responsible dad n followed my instincts. Thsnds hve struggled w worse

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

The Prime Minister should resign. And then we should have a Commission on standards in public life.