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Richard Moorhead is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics at the University of Exeter. He leads a team working… more

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This seems notable - on current data, the 90 homicides recorded by the Metropolitan Police in the year to August 2025 is the lowest 12-month total since the monthly data started in 2003. #crimestats
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The great William Twining has died at 91. Much admired by legal academics across the world
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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 2d
One of my comparative law heroes, William Twining, has passed on 9 October. I have always find his ideas interesting, challenging, and inspiring. RIP Professor.
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by Jaakko Husa — Reposted by Richard Moorhead

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One of my comparative law heroes, William Twining, has passed on 9 October. I have always find his ideas interesting, challenging, and inspiring. RIP Professor.
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Yes, it’s just all the boring stuff in and around very occasional funny bits that means I am giving up on it
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Thank you!

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Hell hath no fury like Dan Neidle quoted out of context
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I. Think. Traitors. Is. Boring.
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Reposted by Richard Moorhead, Daxton R. Stewart

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Ninth Circuit just ended appeals from denial of anti-SLAPP motions in federal court, overturning 20+ years of precedent. From a practical standpoint, massively consequential case. From a principled standpoint, major blow to free expression. Bad.

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Excellent from @richardmoorhead.bsky.social on aggressive defamation law firm's interactions with police, SRA and others when defending a client on FBI's most wanted list. If professional ethics fail, tough regulation is the only alternative. lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/s...
SRA v Carter-Ruck, the stories begin to emerge
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has written an extended piece on Carter-Ruck criticising them for “an increasingly aggressive strategy targeting one London [Police] officer” who was investig…
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by Richard Moorhead — Reposted by Richard Moorhead

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It is worth keeping an eye on the SRA v Carter-Ruck (CoinBase) case. Here are some thoughts on an early story...
SRA v Carter Ruck, the stories begin to emerge
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has written an extended piece on Carter-Ruck criticising them for “an increasingly aggressive strategy targeting one London officer” who was investigating what has been described elsewhere as a Ponzi scheme.  I quote liberally here from that piece, which I am sure will be of interest to many lawyerwatch readers, to try and explain the key elements of the story.
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by Richard Moorhead

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Oh my. I am sorry to hear that.

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Oof. 🤡

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Reposted by Richard Moorhead, David Murakami Wood, Gráinne McKeever

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Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney, says the report that Deloitte prepared for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations contained “hallucinations” because of an initially undisclosed use of generative AI. Now the government is getting its money back.
Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report
Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework
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by Richard Moorhead

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No. Same problem yesterday

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Ah
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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 16d
Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Morrison Foerster settles Trump related trans case. Edi investigation ongoing? www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...
US law firm in London settles claim over "u-turn on helping trans man"
Morrison Foerster has agreed to pay damages to the Good Law Project and the trans man it supported in a discrimination claim against the US law firm’s London office.
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Reposted by Richard Moorhead, Richard McElreath, Samuel L. Perry , and 5 more

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Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Neidle seems to say the ST story on Starmer is rather weak.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 17d
When Keir Starmer gave a field to his parents, he used a "life interest trust". This meant that, as its value grew from £20k to £300k, it was outside their inheritance tax estate.

How did this work? And was it tax avoidance?

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Have now read the blog. ¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

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When Keir Starmer gave a field to his parents, he used a "life interest trust". This meant that, as its value grew from £20k to £300k, it was outside their inheritance tax estate.

How did this work? And was it tax avoidance?

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You are BUSY
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by Richard Moorhead — Reposted by Judith Freedman

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Very interesting on a bunch of things including reparations
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18d
New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social

On Russia's provocations in Poland, Romania, Denmark and elsewhere.

And what NATO and the EU can do to respond.

(£/free trial)

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Russian provocations
How should NATO and the EU react?
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Reposted by Richard Moorhead, Judith Freedman

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New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social

On Russia's provocations in Poland, Romania, Denmark and elsewhere.

And what NATO and the EU can do to respond.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...
Russian provocations
How should NATO and the EU react?
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by Richard Moorhead

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Yep. He looks classy to me.

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Keeping lawyer discipline under wraps... an issue coming into stronger focus
Behind Closed Doors
Screenshot from Tax Policy Associates. Secrecy in professional regulation is starting to become the focus of more attention. Two cases this week throw that into sharp relief. One is the story of Robin Makin, which appears to be ongoing, with practice limitations imposed already, but with an allegation of vexatious private prosecution apparently in train. The journalist, Charlie Moloney, says…
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This is good from @samfr.bsky.social on the imminent eclipse of the Tory party samf.substack.com/p/last-rites
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Troubling hairdos so far

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What’s the hack like then?
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Reposted by Richard Moorhead, Lisa W. Fazio, Rebecca Solnit , and 24 more

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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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After Wellcome changed their #openaccess policy in 2021, they saw that publishers modify their workflows to detect WT funded papers and closed certain routes to publication. They also gave exceptions to "prestigious" authors while ECRs were not given the same opportunities 🤯 #OASPA2025
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