Good luck Harry The Owl

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Court case today.

twitter.com/WeAreFairCop

What does polemicism mean?

Polemic is strongly worded speech or writing about someone or something.

Thank you Lang

I’m trying to keep up with the twitter thread but it’s very fast paced, they’re doing a great job of relaying it!

Do we know how long this case is likely to go on for and when judgement can be expected?

Sorry to be dim, but who is the complainant?

Glad to see the judge reads The Times. Might means he's well aware of the ins and outs of the debate already.

Will it still be on tomorrow? If so I'll pop down there myself!

As I understand it tooyoungat40 the "complainant" is the person who made the complaint to the Police about Harry Miller.

The test is, in plain English - "in the eye of the beholder". For all other crime or recordable incident, the test is "in the eye of a reasonable person”

Thank you Lang. That’s a very interesting distinction. It does if course raise the question what if the ‘beholder’ is an unreasonable person?

Do we know who that might be, or is it not known public (I have no idea how these things work)

If no one is allowed to post anything on line unless it constructively contributes to a debate, the police are going to have to abandon all other duties. And presumably sit in pubs and other public places to police everyone's conversations at all times to be appropriate, polite and constructive only?

The punitive desire behind the reporting is being made plainly apparent, which is a good thing. It is not enough to remove what has been said, the sayer must be punished.

The judge has noted that the complainant didn't even see the tweets themself. They were alerted to them by someone else. The judge is getting it.

And thanks nauticant

I feel like I’m watching someone (in this case the Judge) peak-trans in real time!

Perhaps a new internet wide set of guidelines about only commenting if you're 'civil' would be helpful?

The judge is basically saying "WTF?" in legalese.

Who is this eminently sensible-sounding judge?

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Sorry, that can't happen yet can it (hate incident disclosed in DBS)? Or is this something being discussed generally? Ta muchly

That Nazir chap though ...! With this and Maya's case it feels like we're on the brink of something big either way. I'm just praying the outcome prevails on the side of common bloody sense.

Good Luck Harry!

Judge - it starts with the title doesn't it? 'Crime Report'

This judge totally gets it.

All this over something which isn't a crime.

Yup. Words matter.

Bloody hell I'm enjoying this. The Judge laughed. At it being called a Crime Report. Fab.

I think the complainant is anonymous?

I feel like I’m watching someone (in this case the Judge) peak-trans in real time!

Like in Maria Mac's case someone tweeted "the defence counsel, who I think peak-trans'd during the questioning...."

Sunlight! This has to go Harry's way - the law and policing has to be, and be seen as reasonable. Harry's tweets should never have warranted police involvement.

ah, I see. Thanks AutumnCrow

Adds fact to fact base alongside stuff about intersex conditions and the legalese behind having a belief