Richard Moorhead

The great William Twining has died at 91. Much admired by legal academics across the world

Yes, it’s just all the boring stuff in and around very occasional funny bits that means I am giving up on it

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…

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...

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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Thank you!

Hell hath no fury like Dan Neidle quoted out of context

I. Think. Traitors. Is. Boring.

It is worth keeping an eye on the SRA v Carter-Ruck (CoinBase) case. Here are some thoughts on an early story...

It is worth keeping an eye on the SRA v Carter-Ruck (CoinBase) case. Here are some thoughts on an early story...

Oh my. I am sorry to hear that.

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

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.

Oof. 🤡

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No. Same problem yesterday

Ah

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.

Morrison Foerster settles Trump related trans case. Edi investigation ongoing? www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

Neidle seems to say the ST story on Starmer is rather weak.

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

You are BUSY

Very interesting on a bunch of things including reparations

Yep. He looks classy to me.

Keeping lawyer discipline under wraps... an issue coming into stronger focus

This is good from @samfr.bsky.social on the imminent eclipse of the Tory party samf.substack.com/p/last-rites

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 🧵)

Troubling hairdos so far

What’s the hack like then?

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

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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

Presumably Oxford got this for little or near nothing so that the developer can now say "Oxford uses it so it is great."

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Unrelated, probably

Have googled.