Jason Braier

Very sorry to read this, Sean.

It's a tough day to concentrate on work rather than on the news. Though it's much nicer for that to happen on a positive news day, and to hope that there's even the smallest glimmer of light for a better and more peaceful future for all those in the region. 🎗️

If only it was merely decimation, that wouldn't be so bad!

Perhaps rounding up?

This seems to surpass @seanjones.org’s criteria for a #humblebrag.

I reckon I’ve had clients who’ve done three or four of those jobs, albeit perhaps as a sideline rather than their main job.

Hmmm. Going to be one of those days

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Nobel chair explaining the choice of Peace Prize recipient.

Who on earth could the Nobel committee chair have had in mind when giving this explanation?

And with that unusual image firmly implanted in the mind, I wish you a chag sameach as we prepare to eat in the crisp fresh air of a British autumn, shake some plants and smell a lemon costing 100 times more than your standard Tesco version!

When this came up as a notification I thought (given our earlier discussion) you were referring to Fordham J!

Though most are less impressed when you cite appellate judgments in which they are overturned... (Except HHJ Cotran, at the old Clerkenwell CC (or was it Shoreditch?) who gleamed when I raised a case where the Court of Appeal had torn him to shreds).

I recall sitting in the back of the Court of Appeal as a bar school student and Laws LJ citing to you a section from De Smith, Woolf and Jowell on Judicial Review as Lord Woolf grinned widely.

It was always top of the box whenever I attended hearings with him. Not sure we ever had a hearing in my 3 months where he didn’t refer to it mid-submissions!

Though the greatest thing about Mike Fordham was his wall of colour-coded folders of cases in alphabetical order!

I used to love Fordham’s book back in 3rd edition days for how supremely organised it was and how helpful it was as an opening gambit for researching a point as his pupil and finding a killer quote to try to impress him. I think (rather sadly) I might have a signed copy somewhere!

“Sorry to be pedantic” but given the disjunctive etc etc (accompanied with a classic lawsplaining suggestion to read Bennion)

Looking at FN2, I wonder which lawyers contributed but were too shy to be given credit for their contribution.

As an Essex boy merely in my late 40s who saw Tony Hadley and his band perform it live at a birthday party last year, I know where you’re coming from.

I see a duck hiding under those drawers.

Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan The party unveils new policies on illegal migration as its annual conference begins in Manchester.

This is abhorrent. And whilst the Tories will never form the next government, it's scary that this inhumanity is what their polling gurus think the British electorate want as a choice at the next election, & what many will seemingly vote Reform to fulfil. I despair.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Didn't Boris get rid of all the Tories who would have defected to the Lib Dems in response to the floating of such abhorrent policies?

He seems to have lost his hat.

And best of all, Kitty.

Ours is being spayed this morning and will have to wear a cone for the next 10 days. I'm trepidatious about how she will feel about us when we pick her up later!

I wish it was a surprise, but then I remember that the PSC put in an application for permission to hold a protest march before lunchtime on 7 October 2023, whilst the murders we’re in the middle of taking place.

I’d just finished taking a service for 25 6-year-olds when I was told. I don’t think I even paused emotionally when told, because it’s just something we expect. That’s among the most awful realisations of all.

There must be a pun here. Even a little pun. A punnet if you will.

It's a great consolation. There are thankfully far, far more decent people who recoil at this sort of horror than those who (whether in respect of antisemitism or a whole host of other issues) glory in the hatred of others.

I also wish that I could take my kids to school without security fences, security guards, invacuation and evacuation drills, police visits, etc.

Every year I fear that when I turn my phone on after Yom Kippur I'll learn of a terrorist attack on some part of our community. Every year I breathe a sigh of relief to learn nothing happened. I know many others who do the same. This year we are empty, we are silent and we are mourning our loss.