Police interviewing Jolyon Maugham

However, if Maugham was expressing a view publicly on a trial while it’s in progress he needs to be sternly dealt with. Best by the judiciary not the police. Suspended from practice for a while, perhaps?

I suppose a lot will depend on how Twitter is considered in terms of “publishing “ or “public comment.”

Move along,no hyperbolic flimflam to see here.

I hate the way the police have been overtly politicised. Maugham should have known better, as a trained barrister( or is he a solicitor?) but I can’t crow over this.

it’s awful when the police are used as a TRA weapon against women; but this policing of TRA’s opinion is just as bad in the way that it concretises and embeds the political use of the police.

The arrest of Louise Distra was awful. It felt like a police state. But the police should not be used by either side.

And for the avoidance of all doubt I do not think that there is a “both sides are as bad” argument here. We are fighting desperately for our sex-based rights which men like Maugham are trying to undermine. But neither do I want to live in a state where the police are called to arrest anyone for wrongthink.

He's not exactly a random on the internet. He identifies as a KC. They're held to very high standards surely? A KC posting his personal thoughts about children involved in a terrible murder trial during the case, oblivious to contempt of court guidelines defies belief.

That's displaying a shameful level of emotional incontinence for a legal professional.

I would be horrified if a judge high court or not sent police to my home to ask me questions about an ongoing court case. But then, I have never killed a fox with a baseball bat so.

I have not been questioned by the police, I was asked questions by the police at the behest of a high court judge.

That isn't quite the correction Jolyon thinks it is. He really does love his technicalities though.

I wonder if the rise in TRActivism and awareness of the clash with the women's rights and harms to children, have led to more media coverage? Not a rise in hatred.

Perhaps the hysteria about the fragility of trans people by certain organisations has also made them feel more vulnerable?

And when can women report misogyny as a hate crime? Except we wouldn't because we are often desensitised to it, or simply don't have the time to be making reports every month.

And related, he also says this:

Maughan says this:

Didn't the CPS say something too? Will the met be interviewing them?

I’m pleased that people are being held accountable for such behaviour. A poster managed to get a thread deleted by arguing the toss about their right to publish speculation here.