Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole

@rumpoleswig.bsky.social

Hacking on at the last remnants of the criminal bar

465 Followers 156 Following 51 Posts Joined Sep 2024
1 week ago

He's 47? He looks 60 if a day.

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2 weeks ago

I was actually just thinking 'you know you're old when William Hague looks old'

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2 weeks ago

Personally I was surprised PM was arrested at all. Surely he would have attended a voluntary interview in which case what were the grounds of arrest?

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2 weeks ago
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1 month ago
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3 months ago

I'm so glad you say this. I have this all the time, although am lucky if I can make it to 72 hours - I had thought it was dementia but will now rest easy knowing my barrister brain is merely working at full capacity.

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3 months ago

Snaresbrook looking lovely over the pond this morning

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5 months ago

From that still all I can think of is : duh duh duh It's fun to stay at the Y M C A

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5 months ago

I remember a time when 2 men wouldn't advertise the fact they were going head to head on Hampstead Heath

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5 months ago

I fear you mean "that soon-to-be former barrister". I can't see how he gets out of these troubles.

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6 months ago

Try Rez on the Oculus - amazing

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6 months ago

Maybe it's short for "The group, Daft Punk, is playing at my house"?

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6 months ago

My son has an encyclopedic knowledge of what Netflix have in almost every country his VPN allows him to 'be' in.

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6 months ago

Of course if it is only defendants who are a security risk who go in the dock then juries or magistrates seeing a defendant in the dock will know they are a security risk which isn't very fair on that defendant.

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6 months ago

The thigh contains the femoral artery, which if you shot it would be likely to kill them and quickly without rapid medical assistance.

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7 months ago

Fantastic challenge of guess the court from the evidence of a canteen window (bar mess given everyone in court dress?) with a window which is opposite a balcony.

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7 months ago

Fascinating article - thanks for sharing - but it was first published in 2020 (ironically given the difficulties of travel at that time).

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7 months ago

I assume the value of the steaks was under 200 pounds (hence effective maximum of 26 weeks) and the reduction was because 2/3 of 26 weeks is under 18 weeks imprisonment (hence the 17)?

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8 months ago

Or the Silvertown tunnel?

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10 months ago

Oh dear. This clearly has further legs with the BSB at least.

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11 months ago

Are you sure that wasn't in front of a real live High Court Judge in the aptly titled room 101?

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1 year ago

This is democracy manifest

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1 year ago

see www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/overarching-...

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1 year ago

whilst he could have said more this is clearly a reference to the imposition guideline and stating his decision that "Appropriate punishment can only be achieved by immediate custody"

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1 year ago

"an immediate custodial sentence is, in my judgment,
necessary both as a punishment and as a deterrence" is the reason he gave

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1 year ago

Diplomacy

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1 year ago

But would the situation be different if rather than an AST it was a licence which was withdrawn? Then it might be residential squatting which is a criminal offence now.

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1 year ago

Isn't speeding a maximum £1,000 fine? But does he appeal with the risk of getting more than 5 points?

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1 year ago

A short treasury tag works a treat - plastic ended better than metal for scratches.

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1 year ago

In that under the schedule the starting point for an 18 year old would be 30 years (but obviously for a single offence which this was far from). I'm interested the Judge didn't show more of his working to get to 52 but assume the Court of Appeal will get a go one way or the other.

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