I've always loved penguins, so I was really happy when I found your bluesky account, and I really like just the line or two about where you took the photo, even though I don't know any of the places. Thank you!
After 2 weeks of intense (and excellent) conferences about access to justice, and with the state of the world beyond that, all I want to do is look at (and share) beautiful photos of penguins. Highly recommend following Sue in case you ever need similar therapy.
Gentoo penguin...
The Rockhopper shower on Saunders Island is one of my favorite locations to visit... #penguins #rockhopper #birds #Saunders
Siesta time for a molting Magellanic penguin...
When you get that look from a Rockhopper penguin...
A stupid system that puts money in the wrong places. Caroline Lucas sums up the problem with youth unemployment, student debt and housing costs.
Caroline Lucas shouting out our own Dr Joanna Smallwood of @sussex.ac.uk law school and her brilliant Rights of Nature Toolkit, coming out on Friday. A new way of thinking about the protection environment, rivers, animals etc.
National gardening leave - a combination of a shorter working week and greater urban greening.
@jeanmclean.bsky.social of Green Economy Coalition talks about investing in people with amazing ideas and energy and commitment for ambitious climate action.
@andrewsimms.bsky.social author of Badvertising argues for a ban on petrol advertising and equivalents. 60% of new cars now SUVs, c/w 10% a decade ago- more polluting and more dangerous mode of transport at exactly the time we needed to shift the other way. Literally advertising our own destruction.
Launch event for the interdisciplinary Sussex School for Progressive Futures, with the fabulous @carolinelucas.bsky.social
Launch event for the interdisciplinary Sussex School for Progressive Futures, with the fabulous @carolinelucas.bsky.social
Thanks Kate. That collection of data on unrepresented people needs to go across the whole courts and tribunals system. Abysmal failure to monitor the extent and the impact on both courts snd litigants. I'm currently trying to get some data on appeal outcomes cw representation in asylum appeals.
Excellent blog post explaining what Wicked: For Good tells us about what's wrong with the new asylum proposals in the UK, by my colleague Nuno Ferreira at @sussex.ac.uk lawpoliticsandsociology.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/w...
What happens when you start with a hostile asylum system that sets people up to fail and then persistently degrade the legal aid system people depend on to accompany them through it, to put together the evidence in the framework of the law.
Today we’re proud to launch Rights of Women’s 50th Anniversary Report - a powerful reflection on legal change over the past decade.
Read the report and watch the full launch event with guest speaker Dame Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commissioner:
www.rightsofwomen.org.uk/about-us/rig...
Excellent blog and important argument by the brilliant Central England Law Centre @ce-lawcentre.bsky.social and Liz Curran on the problem of the poorest people being charged fees they can't afford for the evidence to (somewhat) ease their poverty.
Fascinating post by my brilliant colleague.
Exciting conference in Spain next September on the role of truth and evidence in regional human rights adjudication. dissect.ugent.be/events/inter...
Abstracts by 22 December.
My article is featured on the front page of Laws journal (and it's free to read). It is of course about legal aid, and also about how that interacted with asylum policy in the 2022-24 period.
Love the cover photo and good to see it finally in print! Chapter 18 is mine: Undocumented- Insecure Immigration Status and its Impact on Children and Young People. The book contains a huge range of contributions incl one on Palestinian youth under occupation, written before the genocide started.
My new research report with @wearelapg.bsky.social shows legal aid practitioners spend a quarter of their working day, on average, on non-chargeable tasks essential to the running of their legal aid cases or contract: www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/legal-a...
Yes, exactly that. If the auditing system caught those (very occasional but serious) cases like this and Blavo (that the contracting and payment systems perversely incentivise) then the micromanagement might be justifiable, but this shows what a counterproductive waste of money it is.
work bcs of the stress of audits which ignore quality. Current system drives out quality and misses apparent exploitation.
thousands of people's life & death cases potentially messed up. What was the Legal Aid Agency doing? No apparent oversight, yet a charity doing good quality work had ALL its payment recouped because a caseworker's VALID DBS certificate was at home not in the office-and now does v little legal aid
This firm actually only had 2 people accredited to do asylum legal aid work, and set up 7 new offices doing asylum cases (for a total of 8). They closed 2,580 cases in one year, which is clearly impossible if those 2 people are actually doing the work. Contract now withdrawn, but only after
'We don't have the luxury of despair. The global bargain around sanctuary and the global commitment to sharing responsibility are being undermined.' 122 million ppl displaced by conflict, 2/3 stay in neighbouring countries. We have to raise voices for sanctuary:Vicky Tennant of UNHCR, at EARC conf.
200K Hong Kongers arrived in UK on safe legal routes and most people barely noticed. A tiny number arrive on small boats and things melt down. Safe legal routes not the whole answer but an important part. EARC Eastern Arc Sanctuary Solidarities conference.