Richard Moorhead
richardmoorhead.bsky.social
Richard Moorhead
@richardmoorhead.bsky.social

Law prof in UK, and Australia (Exeter and Monash). Empirical and conceptual work on lawyers regulation and ethics. Especially the Post Office and all who billed her. Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. Plastic Geordie. Novice cello player .. more

Richard Moorhead is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics at the University of Exeter. He leads a team working on the British Post Office scandal and that work led to Moorhead’s appointment to the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. He is giving the 2024 Hamlyn Lectures on "Frail Professionalism: Lawyers’ ethics after the Post Office and other cases". .. more

Law 46%
Economics 22%
Pinned
Spaundau Bolly

My sister taught one of the Sugababes

David Mitchell, the novelist.
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?

I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
Day after Alex Pretti killing I complained to BBC about presentation of White House statements and evidence as equivalent. Duty of balance doesn’t extend to complicity with clear lies, I said. BBC could and should report WH making false statements as a *fact of the story*. Today I got response …
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?

I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...

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😂😂 Important that our masters of the idiotverse look smart!

Had part of my day dealing with Samsung customer service. Jeez. Not good. Will not buy Samsung again.

Ah Monaco, ManUre, make your facts up, and explain your unpopularity in one toxic ramble
Sky News include a factual context in the news report.

But are just tweeting out his quotes containing totally bullshit numbers as if they were accurate
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com

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I joined @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social to discuss my work and the work of Bellingcat, why I don't like Seymour Hersh, and getting verified information out quickly on the ICE shootings.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...
Bellingcat founder: ‘Playing whack-a-mole with disinformation is always going to fail’
Eliot Higgins discusses the future of investigative journalism with Alan and Lionel
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Typically interesting from @samfr.bsky.social Convincing on Starmer's dissipation, modest but important positives seen in replacements, and pretty favourable on Rayner.
New post:

"After Starmer"

The PM will go at some point - even if it drags out for a while - so what would a new leader actually do differently?

And would it be enough to change anything?

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...
After Starmer
What would Labour do differently under a new leader?
open.substack.com

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Fabulous. Pulp covers ABBA’s “The Day Before You Came” www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wd1... HT @ianleslie.bsky.social www.ian-leslie.com/p/centrisms-...
New post:

"After Starmer"

The PM will go at some point - even if it drags out for a while - so what would a new leader actually do differently?

And would it be enough to change anything?

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...
After Starmer
What would Labour do differently under a new leader?
open.substack.com

Oh dear
New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

www.ft.com/content/5bba...
Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson
Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client
www.ft.com
New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

www.ft.com/content/5bba...
Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson
Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client
www.ft.com

Dan Dennett wrote a whole thing on surely as a signifier of cant. tis good.

Blazing Saddles and Cool Runnings has a sequel...

COLPs, Mental Health, Stephen Mayson

I have been away for a month in Australia working and return with some determination to reinvigorate my blogging. Thoughts on the SDT decision on the Carter Ruck case and the High Court decision in the Ashley Hurst case are bubbling under (bad SDT decisions…
COLPs, Mental Health, Stephen Mayson
I have been away for a month in Australia working and return with some determination to reinvigorate my blogging. Thoughts on the SDT decision on the Carter Ruck case and the High Court decision in the Ashley Hurst case are bubbling under (bad SDT decisions beget bad HC ones is my outline take), but in the meantime, I thought it might be useful to share some brief thoughts on three pieces of work that caught my eye.
lawyerwatch.wordpress.com

Strangely it was the reference to doing it with paraffin that only really tipped me over the edge

5 a day. Thems the rules

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After months of uncertainty, the government is pressing ahead with its plans to curb trial by jury. Legislation is to be introduced “next month”, a minister says. Sir Brian Leveson expects the bill to be published even sooner, he tells me on A Lawyer Talks.

rozenberg.substack.com/p/jury-refor...
Jury reforms in weeks
Sir Brian Leveson tells me when he expects ministers to publish their bill
rozenberg.substack.com

What can I say, the bastards had it coming. The Cold War was still on. Sandwich led insurrection threatened chaos.

How wonderful to see his powers undimmed
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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NEW BLOGPOST: Palestine Action: What just happened?

A look at some of the legal principles at play following yesterday's verdicts.

thesecretbarrister.com/2026/02/05/p...
Palestine Action – what just happened?
Yesterday, six Palestine Action protestors were acquitted by a jury of aggravated burglary, following a break-in at an Elbit Systems UK factory near Bristol in August 2024. Three of the six were ac…
thesecretbarrister.com
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Oh boy. My condolences

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This is just awful. US Attorney has meltdown in Minnesota hearing on Govt non-compliance with court orders on releasing ICE detainees.

The transcript shows a system melting down in the face of massive illegal acts & non-compliance with court orders by ICE

drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2z7…

Chortled several times at this. Especially the woke quip. Please now give grades and pithy feedback for our three previous PMs