Michelle Heeley KC

Well done mate, really proud of you!

Honouring one of Birmingham’s finest

Geldof smashing I don’t like Mondays

Why can’t my commute to work be like this every day?

Working from home, the dog has resolutely ignored me all morning. I make myself lunch, suddenly she’s my new best friend.

Is there a more “Bank Holiday job” than sorting out the kitchen drawers?

Please explain for us uninformed?

😂 I also sang along Rock me Amadeus, in German, and then gave it my all for the Whitney hit The Greatest love of all!!

How do I still know every word to The Chicken Song? #TOTP

Is there a greater look of disgust than that from a bulldog with whom you won’t share lunch?

An honour to attend a Garden Party, with thanks to the Bar Council for the nomination

I shall look out for you!

I think they’ve always been for the criminal Bar because we only have them in long, multi handed cases and you don’t really get them at the civil Bar- and Family has never had the tradition

Tune in to Michael Portillo’s Railway Journeys to see my husband talking about his passion for Tolkien at Sarehole Mill- tonight 6.30pm BBC2

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I raise you Tabula Rasa and All the Way!

I think season 6 has more variety - the best episode with Once more with Feeling, and some of the absolute worst such as Doublemeat Palace! But 4 comes close!

Game days with my Dad are the best #UTV

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Turn off the news, ignore worries about International Trade, just enjoy a picture of our magnolia tree in full bloom!

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To mark International Women's Day tomorrow, Chair Barbara Mills KC and other women leaders in law share their advice for the next generation of lawyers in @legalcheek.bsky.social

Barbara Mills KC shares the 3 things that have made a real difference to her over the years⬇️

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Park at Snow Hill station, then walk onto Colmore Row, you’ve got The Ivy, Damscena, Goucho, Pasture and San Carlo all off it

Ah- that moment when you are CVP linking from a room in one court building to another, and the motion sensitive lights go out, plunging you in darkness- only to come back on when you start waving like a lunatic.

Image of a barbed wire fence with a clear blue sky in the background. Text overlay reads 'Sentencing review: no more quick wins - invest to tackle crime long term,' with the Bar Council logo in white.

Part 1 of the sentencing review echoes our concerns about how we got here and the scale of the problem. We're at a point of crisis and we agree: change is needed now.

Long sentences aren't always the right long-term solution. Radical thinking is required.

Read our full statement: bit.ly/3EIcwkJ

Pie, pint, Villa, happy days!

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Image displaying a quote by Michelle Heeley KC from the Bar Council Leveson review working group. The text calls for criminal justice system reform, advocating for a focus on alternatives to incarceration and prioritization of mental health and drug addiction issues.

Intermediate courts aren't the answer. Changing the fundamental structure of delivering criminal justice is not a principled response to a crisis that wasn't caused by that structure in the first place.

We've set out alternative recommendations in our submission to Leveson's review⬇️
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