Lucy Garrett KC

Barrister. Bookworm. Pro evidenced-based everything. Legal blogger before it was cool (Two Cultures) | Proud @InstituteGC alumni 🇸🇱

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@JRLevinsLaw @jameswmullen @Shiv_who_burns The Judge does say that I think - also he (correctly it seems to me) says that the initial answer was a panicked interview response so barely even a lie (and very bad interview approach too).

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@Shiv_who_burns @jameswmullen The people who reported him obvs shits too

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@jameswmullen @Shiv_who_burns I must say I feel for him

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@jameswmullen @DanNeidle @ED_LeveyKC well I sort of did disappear, just got a bit fed up with it (and actually thinking about it my Dad died so the world very much shrank for a long time)

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@DanNeidle Please do!

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@DanNeidle have to say Dan, I do love you

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

What a marvellous idea

[quibble @quibbleUK]

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice.
We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff.
Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year.
And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon.
Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket?
An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small.
We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail.
Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: https://t.co/gZiqqHbhIL

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@Dam_McCarthy @mcdermottkc_ Wow. It seems that you were disbarred for dishonesty. https://t.co/BNfdt9D9XK and https://t.co/xAzVtc7dOs

[Peter Daly @peter_daly]

Here’s the letter reported in this Times article (share token).

Good Law Project’s conduct in this affair has been reprehensible. I hope the minister will at least acknowledge as much. I’m pessimistic.

https://t.co/30HRcrGf2I

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@Joanna__Hardy @atomicjoy They would definitely be full, we do it now in civil cases and it is excellent.

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@Joanna__Hardy I had no idea you don't do this in crime. Normal in commercial cases.

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@dj_forrester It's the epigraph to To Kill A Mockingbird and it's from an essay by Charles Lamb.

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@helenlewis I absolutely love it. It's like The Spire on steroids, on heroin, on LSD.

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@tonkolili And the response attached.

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

Very sweet. https://t.co/wJE7huaneY

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@mrianleslie @PrivateEyeNews AND they had to admit at the end it's great. One to frame surely?

[Lucy Garrett KC @lucifee]

@John__Phipps thank you, this was utterly brilliant

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Knife crime and youth violence have been a problem for years, long before smart phones and Andrew Tate.

The latest discourse - following Adolescence - is as predictable as it's depressing, as many choose to ignore the facts and head to where they're comfortable (1/n).

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

The waters have been sufficiently muddied on this platform by people selling snake oil about The Alien Enemies Act and these deportations to El Salvador, so a few important clarifying points:

1. We don't know who got deported. We literally don't have their names or allegations against them. No evidence has been presented. We know close to nothing about them, except the admin's claims they were here illegally and are gang members.

2. No court cases have happened. There was no trial or hearing or evidence. Some Venezuelans legally seeking asylum here have claimed their family members were deported despite having no affiliation with the Tren de Agua gang, or despite having scheduled court appearances for their asylum cases they were planning to attend. Obviously, if we deported Venezuelans legally seeking asylum to one of the harshest prisons in the world in El Salvador without any due process, that'd be very bad.

3. ICE officials have said in sworn testimony in court that some of the deportees had not been accused of any crimes. They also said they determined they were members of TdA through investigative methods like financial transactions or victim testimonies, but are yet to present any of that evidence.

4. The Alien Enemies Act has been declared just 3 times ever: The War of 1812, World War I, and World War II. In each of those cases Congress declared war, which is constitutionally their power alone (not the president's).

5. The AEA is triggered “Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government.” Again: No declared war here. But also, the TdA gang is not a foreign nation or government. So it's not just that Trump needs Congress to declare war, he needs them to declare war against Venezuela.

All of the above are just the basic facts of this story. Trump is going to lose this in court and his admin will almost certainly comply. No judges are going to be impeached for following the law despite the ridiculous theater from members of the House (it takes two-thirds in the Senate to convict and remove a judge, anyway) and Judge Boasberg is another well-respected member of the judiciary, not some radical leftist activist.

People on this website are feeding you ridiculous, absurd, over the top nonsense. Go outside.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

International Women's Day 2025 thread.

In Darlington this man thought that the public sector equality duty requires censoring of gender critical speech to "foster good relations". 🙄