Gone to another place @chrisptopping.bsky.social
Joined February 2012
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Gone to another place. See you there?
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Chris Topping (Activist Lawyer) retweeted
12 Sep 2024
Start your Labour Party conference the best way, by joining us for our conference church service on Sunday 22nd Sept, at St James in the City church, L8 1UR, 9am. All welcome!
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Chris Topping (Activist Lawyer) retweeted
9 Aug 2024
Congratulations @johnsonthompson ! 🙌
An Olympic silver medal to add to your collection 🥈
A brilliant two days of competition at #Paris2024 💪
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Chris Topping (Activist Lawyer) retweeted
5 Aug 2024
"It just seems in many ways so 'not Liverpool' but then I need to accept the reality that it is because it's happening."
"It's a reinforcement that we all need to protect it and that you can't be blasé like I have and just go 'oh yeah we're not like that."
Watch in full 🚨👇
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The crowd singing ‘All Together Now’ in Colchester yesterday ❤️
In light of recent events this message is so important…
𝙎𝘼𝙔 𝙉𝙊 𝙏𝙊 𝙃𝘼𝙏𝙀
Thank you to @lizhobbs_group
#TheFarm #AllTogetherNow
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Potentially another erosion of #AccesstoJustice Every time a costs change comes in life for the Claimant seems to get harder. May well be unintentional but once again new strategies are needed to meet the challenge @nearlylegal @JohnHyde1982 @LawCentres @VLCLiverpool
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Chris Topping (Activist Lawyer) retweeted
31 Jul 2024
Has someone you know in the #Legal profession made a difference? This award is aimed at qualified #solicitors, #barristers, costs #lawyers, patent agents, notary public, CILEX fellows, licensed conveyancers, trademark attorneys. Enter today👇#adla liverpoollawsociety.org.uk/o…
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Chris Topping (Activist Lawyer) retweeted
31 Jul 2024
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” —Desmond Tutu
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Chris Topping (Activist Lawyer) retweeted
31 Jul 2024
"This is the only thing that I will write, but please stop the violence in Southport tonight.
“The police have been nothing but heroic these last 24 hours and they and we don't need this”
Brave, powerful and vital words from Elsie’s mum
liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liv…
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Chris Topping (Activist Lawyer) retweeted
30 Jul 2024
Are legal aid cuts costing more money than they save by putting pressure on other parts of government?
Thanks to @MonidipaFouzder @lawsocgazette for covering a new report on the real cost of legal aid cuts, which has revealed wasted money & data gaps 👇
lawgazette.co.uk/news/laa-wa…
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Chris Topping (Activist Lawyer) retweeted
29 Jul 2024
It is regrettable that whoever wrote this thread did so in apparent ignorance of what the law actually says.
It is really rather wildly misleading.
[THREAD 🧵]
29 Jul 2024
THE SMASHED WINDOW DILEMMA
A person smashes a car window, causing the car alarm to go off and creating a public scene. The police quickly arrive and arrest the person.
During the arrest, the person tries to explain their motive for breaking the window. 🧵 1/9
Community note
The Court of Appeal has ruled that breaking a car window to save a child can constitute a defence to criminal damage. Thus, evidence of this would be admissible: para 45 of judiciary.uk/judgments/atto…
Protest is not a defence to non-trivial criminal damage, so evidence of this isn't admissible. judiciary.uk/judgments/atto…
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26 Jul 2024
At least when the sport starts properly it hasn’t got to be great to be better than this madness #OpeningCeremony
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Chris Topping (Activist Lawyer) retweeted
22 Jul 2024
Be Heard: Celebrating Pride in Liverpool 2024 🌈
Join us on July 28th from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm at Liverpool Cathedral for a special reflective service hosted in collaboration with Open Table.
Stay afterward for refreshments and bring a friend – everyone is welcome!🌈✨
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Chris Topping (Activist Lawyer) retweeted
25 Jul 2024
In 2022 Tory leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat categorically ruled out leaving the ECHR
Today he’s running around suggesting he would be willing to put the UK in the company of Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the human rights convention
Watch in disbelief
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Chris Topping (Activist Lawyer) retweeted
25 Jul 2024
"The consequences [of #LegalAid cuts] have been disastrous."
@FightBach is the Chair of @CALSfreeadvice, our new Law Centre in Leicester. Thanks, Lord Bach, and Baroness Chakrabarti, for fighting our corner in yesterday's #KingsSpeech debate on justice. (1/6) 🧵
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25 Jul 2024
If you are in any doubt just how bad it is for those who need #LegalAid then a few minutes with @FightBach might be worthwhile. We need a new approach @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour @PaulaBarkerMP @IanByrneMP linkedin.com/posts/law-centr…
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