Claire Bradley
@clairebradley.bsky.social
Legal academic, legal researcher and highly experienced teacher. Specialist in EU law and research interests in the history of the Bar, legal rhetoric and historical legal advocacy. www.advocacy.website
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New Zealand just recorded its first-ever day of zero coal- or gas-fired electricity. In fact two days, 20 & 21 December. (Still some co-gen, about 1.8%.)
December 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New Zealand just recorded its first-ever day of zero coal- or gas-fired electricity. In fact two days, 20 & 21 December. (Still some co-gen, about 1.8%.)
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Mone company liquidated and unlikely ever to repay money obtained for supply of defective surgical gowns sold during the pandemic
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m
The firm led by Baroness Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Mone company liquidated and unlikely ever to repay money obtained for supply of defective surgical gowns sold during the pandemic
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Eye-opening session on the recent draconian trajectory of UK protest law with @sarahfinch.bsky.social , @david-whyte.bsky.social , Owen Greenhall and Clive Dolphin.
Highly recommend.
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Highly recommend.
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LVF December 2025 Knowledge Session
YouTube video by Legal Voices for the Future
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Eye-opening session on the recent draconian trajectory of UK protest law with @sarahfinch.bsky.social , @david-whyte.bsky.social , Owen Greenhall and Clive Dolphin.
Highly recommend.
youtu.be/AvKDnLATzIM?...
Highly recommend.
youtu.be/AvKDnLATzIM?...
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@coeusjustice.bsky.social The leading jury researcher in the common law world, COEUS member Prof Cheryl Thomas KC (Hon), explains why the Lammy proposals should not be implemented www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/how...
How the jury system really works
Jury-less trial proposals threaten fairness, legitimacy and democracy without ending the backlog, writes Professor Cheryl Thomas KC (Hon), the UK’s leading expert on juries, judges and courts
www.counselmagazine.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
@coeusjustice.bsky.social The leading jury researcher in the common law world, COEUS member Prof Cheryl Thomas KC (Hon), explains why the Lammy proposals should not be implemented www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/how...
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Top analysis as ever, and as a bonus, an outstanding new (to me) word for Wes Streeting
I wrote about the current state of things for the last @lrb.co.uk of the year.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Top analysis as ever, and as a bonus, an outstanding new (to me) word for Wes Streeting
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Starmer has launched a formal investigation into foreign election interference, The Times reports. It follows Reform’s Nathan Gill’s conviction for taking bribes from Russia.
The inquiry will be led by top civil servant Philip Rycroft who has been given licence to "go wherever he wants to go".
The inquiry will be led by top civil servant Philip Rycroft who has been given licence to "go wherever he wants to go".
December 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Starmer has launched a formal investigation into foreign election interference, The Times reports. It follows Reform’s Nathan Gill’s conviction for taking bribes from Russia.
The inquiry will be led by top civil servant Philip Rycroft who has been given licence to "go wherever he wants to go".
The inquiry will be led by top civil servant Philip Rycroft who has been given licence to "go wherever he wants to go".
European Court of Human Rights clarifies when final national courts must give reasons for not asking EU courts to interpret EU law hudoc.echr.coe.int/%20https://h...
December 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
One thing that may be unfamiliar to those used to English defamation law is the concept of 'actual malice'. If you are a 'public figure', in US defamation law you will generally have to demonstrate this 'actual malice' in order to succeed in a defamation claim. 1/7
December 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The @nihrc.bsky.social are today launching a major new report, by @anuragdeb.bsky.social, @sylviademars.me, @aoifemod.bsky.social, Eleni Frantziou and me, on the novel arrangements for remedying breaches of the UK's obligations for rights and equality in NI under Art 2 WF:
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December 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
So much of the commentary on the FWS judgment has been driven by reflexive responses to the outcome, but there are so many gaps and leaps in its reasoning that it will spawn litigation for years to come - @aoifemod.bsky.social and I flag some failings in judge craft:
nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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It has been just over eight months since we lost Dayve (pictured here on her 19th birthday).
We're now hoping to end our catlessness early in the New Year and so we're being interviewed by a kitten tomorrow. Exciting times.
We're now hoping to end our catlessness early in the New Year and so we're being interviewed by a kitten tomorrow. Exciting times.
December 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It has been just over eight months since we lost Dayve (pictured here on her 19th birthday).
We're now hoping to end our catlessness early in the New Year and so we're being interviewed by a kitten tomorrow. Exciting times.
We're now hoping to end our catlessness early in the New Year and so we're being interviewed by a kitten tomorrow. Exciting times.
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These are amazing
Admiring the sophistication of these 7,000-year-old black polished fired clay sculptures of a contemplative man and woman, found in 1956 in a Neolithic necropolis in Romania (National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest)
December 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
These are amazing
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Do jurors have the right to apply their conscience to a case or could it be a criminal offence for them to do so?
A recent hearing before the RCJ puts the centuries-old principle of jury equity on the line.
I’ve written about it for @prospect_uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/71...
A recent hearing before the RCJ puts the centuries-old principle of jury equity on the line.
I’ve written about it for @prospect_uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/71...
Is it criminal for jurors to act on conscience?
Judges disagree on whether juries should consider evidence alone
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Do jurors have the right to apply their conscience to a case or could it be a criminal offence for them to do so?
A recent hearing before the RCJ puts the centuries-old principle of jury equity on the line.
I’ve written about it for @prospect_uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/71...
A recent hearing before the RCJ puts the centuries-old principle of jury equity on the line.
I’ve written about it for @prospect_uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/71...
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This is splendid.
Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
londonist.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is splendid.
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🚨BREAKING🚨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🚨BREAKING🚨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
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PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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New from Free Movement: Vicarious trauma: what practitioners need to know | Rachel Francis freemovement.org.uk/vicarious-tr...
Vicarious trauma: what practitioners need to know - Free Movement
This ongoing exposure to distress and trauma (and indeed the full range of human emotion) can be described as vicarious trauma.
freemovement.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
New from Free Movement: Vicarious trauma: what practitioners need to know | Rachel Francis freemovement.org.uk/vicarious-tr...
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I'm girding my loins for this event tomorrow. And slightly wondering what I've let myself in for...
Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation does brilliant work in schools - and we are delighted to host a Shakespeare festival for them every year at Magdalen.
observer.co.uk/culture/thea...
Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation does brilliant work in schools - and we are delighted to host a Shakespeare festival for them every year at Magdalen.
observer.co.uk/culture/thea...
Comedy or error: is Shakespeare actually funny? | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm girding my loins for this event tomorrow. And slightly wondering what I've let myself in for...
Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation does brilliant work in schools - and we are delighted to host a Shakespeare festival for them every year at Magdalen.
observer.co.uk/culture/thea...
Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation does brilliant work in schools - and we are delighted to host a Shakespeare festival for them every year at Magdalen.
observer.co.uk/culture/thea...
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Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
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A decade of climate court cases: How legal battles are holding governments and polluters accountable | Euronews www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Ten years of climate court cases: Changing rules for big polluters
A surge in climate litigation over the last decade has forced governments and big companies to act.
www.euronews.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A decade of climate court cases: How legal battles are holding governments and polluters accountable | Euronews www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
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The world’s favorite climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe recommends HUMAN NATURE!
For me, 2025 has felt like a particularly heavy year ... and you might feel the same. So as we head into the holiday season, I wanted to share a few recommendations — books, podcasts, and newsletters — that encourage me, make me think, and remind me how hope begins with action.
Climate content for purpose, courage, and hope | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Get more from Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe on Patreon
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December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The world’s favorite climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe recommends HUMAN NATURE!
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Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: terms of reference
www.gov.uk/government/p...
England only
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England only
Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: terms of reference
Terms of reference for an independent review into the prevalence and support for mental health conditions, ADHD and autism.
www.gov.uk
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: terms of reference
www.gov.uk/government/p...
England only
www.gov.uk/government/p...
England only
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Homeowners in WA reeling from home-insurance hikes filed a lawsuit against fossil-fuel giants. Kennedy v. Exxon et al. is the 1st case holding Big Oil responsible for climate-related insurance spikes. Premiums rose 9% faster than inflation from '18-'22.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates - Inside Climate News
The class-action lawsuit is the first of its kind to target Big Oil over rising home insurance costs.
insideclimatenews.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Homeowners in WA reeling from home-insurance hikes filed a lawsuit against fossil-fuel giants. Kennedy v. Exxon et al. is the 1st case holding Big Oil responsible for climate-related insurance spikes. Premiums rose 9% faster than inflation from '18-'22.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...
There it is - EU Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act (for deceptive blue ticks, also ad repository, researchers access issues) - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
For the legal background, see my thread (starting with my pinned tweet)
For the legal background, see my thread (starting with my pinned tweet)
Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act
Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
ec.europa.eu
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM