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Shivaji Shiva
@shivajishivalaw.bsky.social
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Charity lawyer; charity trustee; transport campaigner.
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See also Table 3.
5 A standard determinate sentence to which section 244ZA of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 applies (certain serious violent or sexual offences, including causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving whilst under the influence of drink or drugs) Two thirds of the custodial sentence
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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If I understand this correctly - this is not my area - the sentencing remarks should include an explanation of the approach taken.

sentencingcouncil.org.uk/guidelines/d...
17. Sentencers should consider how a disqualification interacts with other parts of an offender’s sentence. For example, where an offender is serving a community sentence or paying a fine, a longer disqualification may form a greater element of the punitive element of the sentence. Where an offender will spend a long time in custody the disqualification period after release may represent a continued means of public protection, potentially even after the custodial sentence (including the licence period) has been served. However, the court will need to consider all the circumstances of the offender and the offence before it. 18. Sentencers must explain the reasons for the duration of the disqualification period.
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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A vision of the future?

Paging @playingout.bsky.social and @tomflood.bsky.social ...

@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
A Hyundai Motor Company advert - strapline: 'One SUV, endless adventures. The all-new IONIQ 9. Power yourworld.' Image: children playing around an enormous SUV plonked on the large block paved frontage of a suburban home with trees beyond.
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Any better?
The ICC
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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This exchange prompted me to double check the details for an event I am booked to attend this weekend. I'm delighted to say that Birmingham Healthy Air Coalition's Healthy Air, Healthy Lives Conference has done this well.
Traveling To The Venue Moor Street Station – 4 minutes walk New Street Station (Grand Central) – 12 minutes walk Moor Street Interchange (all major Birmingham bus routes) – 7 minutes We have bike racks, secure bike parking and an air pump for tyres There is free Blue Badge parking on Allison Street and in the Moor St Carpark (also on Allison Street). The venue may be able to reserve a space for you if you request, but cannot guarantee this. Travelling by car: if you need to travel by car, there are several pay and display car parks in the area. Please be careful to pay any parking charges and avoid parking in the wrong place as clampers do operate near the Warehouse. A conference advert showing a crowd of people holding a banner saying 'WE DEMAND CLEAN AIR'.
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Oh, yes ...
Getting there- Car: The Meeting House is near Junction 9 on the inner ring road – turn second right at traffic lights and right up Hill Street. The Meeting House is on the left. There is a small private car park but public car parks nearby include Belgrade Plaza, accessible from Junction 9. Bus: From Pool Meadow bus station; walk along Fairfax Street, Hales St. and Corporation St. The Quaker Meeting House is behind the Belgrade Theatre. Train: It is a 12 – 15 minute walk to the meeting house. Exit station and follow pedestrian signs to the city centre. You will cross a pelican crossing (with lights) and a zebra crossing. In a short while, turn left along Greyfriars Road (between Shortland Home and Brian Holt). Follow that road round, past IKEA, to St John’s Church. Immediately after St John’s Church, turn left into Hill Street The Meeting House is up Hill Street on the left just after the cobbled area marking the site of Hill Street Gate. The XR logo on several flags - and a title: 'Extinction Rebellion Midlands (West) Midlands Gathering'
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Interesting to see this gathering at the end of my cycle commute.

A Letter Tree being launched by RoadPeace and TfWM to encourage people to make pledges for safer streets.

Link to an online version in the next message.

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The RoadPeace /TfWM Letter Tree at Brindleyplace. A purple wooden tree with letters attached to it, each of which contains a short memory of a victim of road traffic written by a family member. A group of people around teh Letter Tree, including Simon Foster, the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner; Mat McDonald, the West Midlands Road Safety Commissioner; Lucy Harrison of RoadPeace Weest Midlands; and representtaives of West Midlands Police. A marked police car.
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Gloves weather …
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Thank you Jam and team at 1000 Trades on the Park for a lovely Sunday roast. It was great to catch up with friends in such a warm and friendly space.
A pub table with a jar of flowers, menus and a reservation card.
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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... And why he chose England.
A picture of Ian Sanjay Patel's book on immigration and the end of empire, We're Here Because You Were There'. The book's opening paragraph reads as follows: 'We are here because you were there. These were the pithy words of the writer Ambalavaner Sivanandan, born in the British colony of Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka), who migrated to Britain in 1953. His words addressed a British state that had denied an incontrovertible history about why so-called 'immigrants' were now in post-war Britain in greater numbers than ever before. Here meant Britain; there meant former British colonies. If poorly understood, there was a direct relationship, Sivanandan suggested, between the British empire and post-war migrations to Britain. Domestic British history had been separated from British imperial history, and from this false separation, confusion about and rejection of post-war immigrants had been allowed to spread.'
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Sorting family papers and I find myself reflecting on how daunting it must have been for my dad - very much a homebody and a mother's boy - to travel to England in 1959.
A postcard of the Orient line steamer, S.S. Orontes. The Embarkation Card issued to my father when he joined the S.S. Orontes on 8 August 1959 for the journey from Colombo to England, where he was to study mechanical engineering.
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Amma’s guide cap with a selection of Ceylon Girl Guiding badges.
A green cap with a selection of badges and a patch reading ‘CEYLON GIRL GUIDE’.
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Amused to discover that when my mother arrived from what was then Ceylon in 1968 to join her new husband in London, she came with a Letter of Introduction from the International Commissioner of The World Association of Girls Guides confirming her status as a Guide Captain.
A Letter of Introduction bearing the Girl Guide trefoil logo.
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Clearing through some old papers I found the instruction manual for my dad’s radio.

‘The Sound of Quality Around the World’

Since it’s still going strong 60 years on, I’ll give them that.
Operating instructions for the National Panasonic radio model R-55B. The National Panasonic sitting on the chest in my home office.
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Bus travel to/from scenic Bournville Lane will involve additional complications this morning.

Bring wellies.
A bus stop marooned in a puddle on Bournville Lane.
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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A fine but of parking on Bournville Lane this morning.

The station manager has reported it to @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social and West Midlands Police. It’s anyone’s guess whether either will take responsibility and get it moved.
A white car plonked in the middle of the road at the entrance to a tunnel under a railway. That white car - plonked in the middle of a flooded road without hazards on.
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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It’d be rude not to …
A quince and something pastry from Hart’s.
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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That feeling when you arrive at 18:33 for the 18:33 to New Street, so expect to miss it, but it arrives at 18:34 *and* you have two treats from Hart’s in your bag.
A black Brompton folding bike squeezed into the packed bottom section of a carriage rack with the blue front bag perched on the shelf above. Two brown paper bags (from Hart’s) and a paper back book - Colson Whitehead’s Crook’s Manifesto - on the fold down shelf of a train seat.
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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#MultiModal
The sign for the cycle carriage on a train.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Good morning Bristol.
A laptop on a desk with a cup of coffee (a flat white, since you ask) and a croissant from Hart's. The view of the harbourside from VWV's offices in Narrow Quay House. We're just across from Watershed. Among the passers-by silhouetted in the foreground is a child on a balance bike.
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Off to VWV’s Bristol office for a Team Day. It’s an opportunity to catch up with colleagues from across the Charity Law and Governance team.

And there should be time for a stop at Hart’s Bakery to grab something for breakfast.
A black Brompton folding bicycle and front bag on the carriage rack in a train carriage.
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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#SchoolRunJoy

I admire our lollipop ladies. It is an enormously important job. I could not stand there patiently each day as parents and neighbours blithely endanger the very children they are delivering to school by parking dangerously.

@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM