Barrister (but posts are not in that capacity). Parent. He/Him. All views personal. General commercial litigation,trusts and equity, privacy, and (increasingly) public law. Covid continuing despite denial creates interesting legal consequences.
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One preliminary point worth noting on this - because it's pretty opaque if you're not a nerd - is that a public inquiry (which this is) has functionally exactly the same powers and independence that a Royal Commission does.
This is completely at arm's length to the government.
This is completely at arm's length to the government.
Inquiry into handling of the Tom Phillips case announced by government
The inquiry will look if the right steps were taken to ensure the welfare of the fugitive dad's children.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
One preliminary point worth noting on this - because it's pretty opaque if you're not a nerd - is that a public inquiry (which this is) has functionally exactly the same powers and independence that a Royal Commission does.
This is completely at arm's length to the government.
This is completely at arm's length to the government.
Bits of the US seem quite normal, like a civilised country. Other bits, less so..
I went to immigration court in Seattle to observe the kids docket. These children, some as young as three years old, are expected to understand complex legal processes and represent themselves in court.
That’s not due process.
That’s not due process.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Bits of the US seem quite normal, like a civilised country. Other bits, less so..
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BREAKING: Judge Scott McAfee grants motion to dismiss Georgia case against Trump, others.
The Fulton County case -- which resulted in guilty pleas by Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Scott Hall, and Kenneth Chesebro -- is officially done.
The Fulton County case -- which resulted in guilty pleas by Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Scott Hall, and Kenneth Chesebro -- is officially done.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
BREAKING: Judge Scott McAfee grants motion to dismiss Georgia case against Trump, others.
The Fulton County case -- which resulted in guilty pleas by Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Scott Hall, and Kenneth Chesebro -- is officially done.
The Fulton County case -- which resulted in guilty pleas by Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Scott Hall, and Kenneth Chesebro -- is officially done.
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I have one jury hot take which I think is often missed from the discussion. The primary importance of a jury in criminal trials is not because it is somehow more democratic than judges or because a jury can reach a perverse verdict. Rather it is the safeguard that come from a consensus of numbers.
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I have one jury hot take which I think is often missed from the discussion. The primary importance of a jury in criminal trials is not because it is somehow more democratic than judges or because a jury can reach a perverse verdict. Rather it is the safeguard that come from a consensus of numbers.
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dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
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Attention Wellington people interested in privacy and workers' rights. Please consider yourself invited to a public lecture and the launch of book edited by me and @joshfairfield.bsky.social at 11.30 a.m GBLT1 on Wednesday 26 November. (More details in the link) www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/eng...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Workers’ Right to Privacy—Public Lecture and Book Launch | Ōrauariki / Wellington School of Business and Government | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Welli...
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Attention Wellington people interested in privacy and workers' rights. Please consider yourself invited to a public lecture and the launch of book edited by me and @joshfairfield.bsky.social at 11.30 a.m GBLT1 on Wednesday 26 November. (More details in the link) www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/eng...
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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Those with object permanence going back 7 years to July/August 2018 might recall the Southern/Molyneux visit, Phil Goff's reaction, and the online reaction to Phil Goff's reaction. Smaller liberalish societies like us and Ireland are imaginary country rhetorical devices to the farrightosphere
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Those with object permanence going back 7 years to July/August 2018 might recall the Southern/Molyneux visit, Phil Goff's reaction, and the online reaction to Phil Goff's reaction. Smaller liberalish societies like us and Ireland are imaginary country rhetorical devices to the farrightosphere
Remarkable.
Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex.
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Remarkable.
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Thank god for folk like Paula.
You don’t need me to tell y’all how vital long form journalism is to a healthy democracy. We just need to do our bit, read & try to understand others through it.
You don’t need me to tell y’all how vital long form journalism is to a healthy democracy. We just need to do our bit, read & try to understand others through it.
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Thank god for folk like Paula.
You don’t need me to tell y’all how vital long form journalism is to a healthy democracy. We just need to do our bit, read & try to understand others through it.
You don’t need me to tell y’all how vital long form journalism is to a healthy democracy. We just need to do our bit, read & try to understand others through it.
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We’re standing up for trans rights. 🏳️⚧️
The Guiding Principles for Trans Inclusion were developed by community, for community. The government threw that away without any consultation. That’s not fair.
For more information: aucklandpride.org.nz/auckland-pri...
The Guiding Principles for Trans Inclusion were developed by community, for community. The government threw that away without any consultation. That’s not fair.
For more information: aucklandpride.org.nz/auckland-pri...
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We’re standing up for trans rights. 🏳️⚧️
The Guiding Principles for Trans Inclusion were developed by community, for community. The government threw that away without any consultation. That’s not fair.
For more information: aucklandpride.org.nz/auckland-pri...
The Guiding Principles for Trans Inclusion were developed by community, for community. The government threw that away without any consultation. That’s not fair.
For more information: aucklandpride.org.nz/auckland-pri...
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Accidentally told a 2yo that oceans are battlefields:
"that's a torpedo tube!"
"what's that?"
"umm it's a little boat that goes very fast so they can catch big boats"
"why"
"[panicking] uhhh so they can say to the big boat 'NO. STOP.'"
"why"
[maritime power in global affairs flashes before my eyes]
"that's a torpedo tube!"
"what's that?"
"umm it's a little boat that goes very fast so they can catch big boats"
"why"
"[panicking] uhhh so they can say to the big boat 'NO. STOP.'"
"why"
[maritime power in global affairs flashes before my eyes]
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Accidentally told a 2yo that oceans are battlefields:
"that's a torpedo tube!"
"what's that?"
"umm it's a little boat that goes very fast so they can catch big boats"
"why"
"[panicking] uhhh so they can say to the big boat 'NO. STOP.'"
"why"
[maritime power in global affairs flashes before my eyes]
"that's a torpedo tube!"
"what's that?"
"umm it's a little boat that goes very fast so they can catch big boats"
"why"
"[panicking] uhhh so they can say to the big boat 'NO. STOP.'"
"why"
[maritime power in global affairs flashes before my eyes]
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Doing my semi-regular "state of the industry" crawl of the TSPA job board and I have found it: the job listing most perfectly calculated to send the maximum number of people screaming
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Doing my semi-regular "state of the industry" crawl of the TSPA job board and I have found it: the job listing most perfectly calculated to send the maximum number of people screaming
It's really nice to live in a country where a male judge puts in his professional bio "Judge X has three accomplished children and two energetic grandchildren. He lives above [funky venue] with his partner [Bob]." (Edits: I presume judges are a bit cagey about where they live, for obvious reasons.)
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's really nice to live in a country where a male judge puts in his professional bio "Judge X has three accomplished children and two energetic grandchildren. He lives above [funky venue] with his partner [Bob]." (Edits: I presume judges are a bit cagey about where they live, for obvious reasons.)
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My favorite Wombat fact.
Also: a reminder to watch this video for the 100th time.
Also: a reminder to watch this video for the 100th time.
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
My favorite Wombat fact.
Also: a reminder to watch this video for the 100th time.
Also: a reminder to watch this video for the 100th time.
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/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill
Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Tr...
www.pbs.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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I hope everyone understands that this means that many people who are undocumented will no longer come to any court hearings on any matter.
Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.
Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.
"At New York's Varick Immigration Court, ICE agents on Wednesday began checking the documents of everyone who left."
"They are indeed checking individuals off lists and attempting to detain them once they leave court."
"Immigration courts should be spaces of justice — not traps."
#USA #Deportation
"They are indeed checking individuals off lists and attempting to detain them once they leave court."
"Immigration courts should be spaces of justice — not traps."
#USA #Deportation
ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests
The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.
theintercept.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I hope everyone understands that this means that many people who are undocumented will no longer come to any court hearings on any matter.
Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.
Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.
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Whenever you read an article about clothing not lasting or bins of it being shipped to the 3rd world it's always written by a woman and about women's clothing
Meanwhile 95% of guys wear the same 10 items every week for years at a time & then replace with something identical when they wear out
Meanwhile 95% of guys wear the same 10 items every week for years at a time & then replace with something identical when they wear out
February 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Whenever you read an article about clothing not lasting or bins of it being shipped to the 3rd world it's always written by a woman and about women's clothing
Meanwhile 95% of guys wear the same 10 items every week for years at a time & then replace with something identical when they wear out
Meanwhile 95% of guys wear the same 10 items every week for years at a time & then replace with something identical when they wear out
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I spoke to Midday Report at RNZ - you can listen to the interview here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Government blocks puberty blockers for new patients
The coalition government has announced a ban on new patients accessing gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues - also known as puberty blockers - from next month. Professional Association for Transge...
www.rnz.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I spoke to Midday Report at RNZ - you can listen to the interview here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Dr Clark, re: the prospects of success of a puberty blockers rule change judicial review.
So. Have had a look at the long title and empowering provision for making regulations under the Medicines Act 1981 in re the puberty blockers decision with a view to judicial review prospects. & it's pretty hard to scope prospects for success at this stage, tbh. Short thread as to why & next steps.
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Dr Clark, re: the prospects of success of a puberty blockers rule change judicial review.
It is interesting to think of how the Courts need to consider the same "social contagion" arguments when it comes to the other end of the spectrum too ("le wokisme": trans kids are human and have rights, that sort of thing).
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It is interesting to think of how the Courts need to consider the same "social contagion" arguments when it comes to the other end of the spectrum too ("le wokisme": trans kids are human and have rights, that sort of thing).