Michelle Heeley KC

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Barrister Philip Vollans, Wendy Morton MP (@wendymorton.bsky.social ) Gurinder Josan MP and barrister Matthew Brooke at Birmingham Crown Court.

The MPs also met with representatives from the @midlandcircuit.bsky.social

Trial and error?: The impact of restricting jury trials on court demand | Institute for Government The government’s reforms will unlock only relatively modest reductions in demand.

NEW REPORT: the gov’s proposals for judge-only trials will deliver only marginal savings and distract from the real route out of this crisis: reversing recent falls in court productivity.

Now that I confirm they do do, they wear ermine from October til Easter, then switch to summer robes

As a Midland Circuiteer I confirm that is the version known on our circuit!

Did you read the article in The Guardian about how they made that? It’s been in my head ever since!

Slashing jury trials could clear courts backlog within a decade, says Lammy Exclusive: Lord chancellor urges MPs to back judge-only trials in thousands of criminal cases in England and Wales

Properly funding the court system would clear the backlog even more quickly.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Clemmie wishes you all a Happy and Healthy 2026

R v BM was a Wolverhampton case

It was the R V Brown question you did wasn’t it?

How did the courts backlog get so bad? There are now 79,600 outsanding criminal cases in England and Wales - a record high. BBC Verify looks at how we got here.

Finally! An accurate explanation of the courts backlog from journalists!

And you'll notice that juries have absolutely F all to do with it!

This is correct. Lammy and Leveson etc are not telling you the truth in their PR campaign to ruin the CJS yet more.

Justice needs juries.

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My husband (age 45) couldn’t wait to take our senior school age kids trick or treating!

I think she says “anxiety” if it’s the trailer where she’s packing her school bag?

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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