PupilofSB

Making tea in a Wok since 2019

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

Having a serious fan girl freak out right now! 🤩

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

@PupilofSB My hero.

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

@shitbarrister Whose Otto? Don’t you have 20+ bonsai trees

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

@shitbarrister @TheMrsSB is one lucky women!

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

2023 theme - Health. 16:29 on 1 Jan 2023, sat stuffing my face in a Indian curry house

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

I just answered the phone to my partner, he said "I have to tell someone this....I have just seen a man walk out of Greggs, bite the corner off his pasty, then repeatedly stick his finger in and lick the gravy from his finger... okay bye.

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

What is the thought process which leads someone to conclude that an appropriate snack on a busy train is liver pate on crackers - the whole place reaks

[Shit Barrister @shitbarrister]

Stop referring to it as a 15% pay increase when it is nothing more than an insufficient step up from a 30% pay decrease. It’s like punching someone in the face less frequently than you have been, but nevertheless still punching them in the face.

[Jerry Hayes @jerryhayes1]

Criminal barristers don’t charge by the hour. Obviously you were not legally aided. This industrial action is about legal aid rates. It will be very rare indeed for a baby barrister to be be privately funded

[Emma Fielding @FieldingAtLaw]

I know there's lots of focus on crown court work. But it's worth highlighting the standard magistrate court fees, which have remained unchanged for years:

1st appearance (plea hearing) - £50
Sentence hearing - £50
Case management - £50
Half day trial - £75
Full day trial - £150

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

“We need to stop the misinformation this government has put out there.”

Barristers are on strike following a row over legal aid.

One said he'd earned just 49p an hour on a trial, after he'd calculated the preparation time.

[Stephen Davies @sdavieslaw]

A junior barrister has published their earnings. It represents the harsh reality. If we don’t act now, we risk losing this excellent barrister and many others.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"We are all legal aid lawyers and in the last 10 years our income has effectively dropped by some 30%."

Former Criminal Bar Association chair Caroline Goodwin QC explains to @C4Ciaran why criminal barristers have gone on strike over pay.

https://t.co/EnPD4oEMx1

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

I should add the trial was not adjourned for my convenience but for a wholly unrelated reason.

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

Note to self: Don't choose to travel by train without checking the news first.

Only realised when I got to my destination to start a 4-day trial that there would be a strike. The trial has been adjourned until tomorrow, so now a quick dash across the country to collect the car.

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

@shitbarrister The scary thing is I speak SB so I know what you’re talking about and it’s on your desktop

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

@shitbarrister Are we taking about the Jaffa Cake procedure or my spelling mistake - I think both

Tell Eileen I said hi

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

It’s common in criminal practice for case to be reported on the local news websites. I really enjoy reading the comments of the cases I do. Reading the comments of a case I did last week, one member of the public thinks Judges are just failed solicitors

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

I’m staying at my parents this evening. My mother religiously watches the Soaps.

Perhaps it’s just a coincidence that during the CBA’s no- returns policy tonight’s episode of Coronation Street portrayed barrister as greedy, unethical and too lazy to prepared our cases

[PupilofSB @PupilofSB]

@shitbarrister Dish the goss!