Graham Rishton

Barrister practising crime. Yorkshireman in Manchester. Leeds United fan - MOT! Views are my own etc

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Reform Party now saying openly what before was only rumours. They will establish internment camps in Britain where ten of thousands will be held without trial for an indefinite period based on the whim of the Reform leadership.

Deeply disturbing and Fascist.

[The CBA @TheCriminalBar]

Ms Sackman told @BBCRadio4 last week “with something like a triable either way offence, we aren’t dealing by definition with the most serious and complex cases” 

Our Chair has this to say “This is plainly incorrect. There are currently 725 either-way offences, and they include serious violence and sexual assaults. Many involve copious amounts of witness, electronic, and documentary evidence to examine. The Courts minister repeated “We know that those equivalent cases when they are heard in the magistrates are heard considerably faster than when they are before a jury.”

How? How can this possibly be a known factor? When there is absolutely no evidence to support this statement?”

MPs read on to grasp the fantasy behind the Government’s Impact Assessment they present as reason to do away with jury trial for so many serious offences.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Joanna is politer than I am going to be.

For the Justice Secretary - a former barrister - to suggest that being wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned for three years is just like “scraping your knee”, should be a resignation matter.

@DavidLammy owes the public an apology.

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

I’ve written to every Member of Parliament today.

Proposals before Parliament would remove jury trials from offences carrying up to three years in prison.

Freedoms rarely vanish overnight. They are chipped away in the name of efficiency.

Juries did not cause the crisis in our courts. Removing them will not fix it.

When the state seeks to take someone’s liberty for serious offences, the judgment of ordinary citizens should never be optional.

This is close to becoming law.

Please read the letter. Contact your MP now.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

I could literally reduce the Crown Court backlog in 9 steps starting tomorrow. And precisely none of it would involve tampering with jury trials.

[Graham Rishton @Rishpig]

@CPhilpOfficial A truly astonishing tweet from our Shadow Home Secretary. The @Conservatives are an utterly unserious party these days.

[Otto English @Otto_English]

Good people stand against evil.

Bad people don't.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"What rules has he broken? A man wants to continue to watch football with his children? We have to keep our Prime Minister safe."

Gary Neville criticises what he says is unfair scrutiny over Keir Starmer accepting hospitality tickets to Arsenal.

@lewis_goodall | @GNev2

[That’s So Village @ThatsSoVillage]

yeah, got an absolute jaffa on saturday, nothing I could do about it...

via @bmcc_official, @Frogboxlive

[Graham Rishton @Rishpig]

This is comedy stuff. A disgraceful display by @LUFC . Spent an evening of my holiday watching this. What a fool I am.

[Graham Rishton @Rishpig]

So poor this from @LUFC . A continuation of the poor form at the end of last season - slack in defence/ huff and puff with no real threat up top. Early season optimism slipping away…

[Graham Rishton @Rishpig]

It’s bad enough that Southgate has gone into this game with the same system that has served us so poorly for the first 3 games. It’s unforgivable that we’re 80 mins in with the same system and only 1 sub. What is he waiting for? A debacle which will be remembered for a long time.

[Graham Rishton @Rishpig]

@Nigel_Farage @SkyNews @GBNEWS What a snowflake you are Nigel. Tedious.

[Graham Rishton @Rishpig]

@Conservatives It’s remarkable to think that there is some half wit in the Tory back office spewing out this drivel in the belief that it cuts through.

[Graham Rishton @Rishpig]

@mattgrantsky @TomSheldrickITV Next we’ll be told, such is the @Conservatives and @RicHolden ‘s fragile grasp of reality, that Basildon is, in fact, in the North East. I anticipate a strategy involving repeating this as fact at every opportunity in the hope that some will start to believe it.

[Graham Rishton @Rishpig]

@WALMOT_ He came into absolute chaos at the start of the season to put together a points total which 9/10 would see us go up automatically. I find it staggering that anyone would be on the fence over a second season.

[Graham Rishton @Rishpig]

@David_Cameron @RishiSunak This wasn’t posted with a straight face was it?

[Graham Rishton @Rishpig]

This is now where we’re at in Tory Britain. Utterly shameful ⁦@Conservatives ⁩ Arrest fewer people to save prison space, police chiefs told

https://t.co/nmLeB8lWcI