Notices by d a t green (davidallengreen@mastodon.green), page 4

Pretty soon those who have no idea what will happen next will tells us that what did happen was inevitable all along.

Oh, it looks like the Cabinet Office is actually going through with a legal challenge to the Covid Inquiry.

This is exciting.

Who wins this early contest really matters for the course of the entire Inquiry.

The outcome could be hugely significant.

And, of course, inquiries law should not be exciting, especially regarding public health.

Inquiries law should be dull.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/29/cabinet-office-may-take-legal-action-to-deny-covid-inquiry-lady-hallett-boris-johnson-material

I have just come across an Edwardian barrister with the glorious name of Montague Lush KC.

I just wanted to share this discovery.

@goatsarah Oh yes, edited.

The coronation of William III should be better known about than it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_William_IV_and_Adelaide#The_%22Half_Crown-nation%22

The new king did not even want a coronation

LAWYERS IN LITERATURE AND OTHER FICTION

Who are your favourite fictional lawyers - and why?

The less obvious selections the better - so let us all take Rumpole, Mason, Finch, Saul and Hutz as given.

I have a soft spot for Jonathan Harker - a solicitor going that extra mile for a demanding non-dom client.

It is now "unsafe" to click on a Mastodon link on Twitter.

Even if that link is in your Twitter bio.

There is no good reason for this anti-competitive behaviour.

My "live" commentary on this morning's @UKSupremeCourt judgment on #IndyRef2 will be here at Mastodon, from 9.30 am.

Judgment expected at 9.45 am.

Hello influx of Newbies!

Here are two posts which many have found useful re Mastodon

@craiggrannell at https://www.stuff.tv/features/what-is-mastodon-all-you-need-to-know-to-switch-from-twitter/

@MJCarty at https://mjcarty.com/2022/11/12/mastodon-faq-toot-sweet/

A good post on Mastodon lore by @chrisabides
https://infosec.exchange/@chrisabides/109309319819177873

And a list of UK legal types over there to follow:
https://mastodon.green/@davidallengreen/109341591195320870

Elon Musk invited by UK government to “advise on ‘bloated’ EU retained law”.

UK legals on Mastodon

@rozenberg

@BarristerSecret

General chat
@SeanJones

Policy/law interface (my sort of stuff)
@gem_abbott

Legal info
@inner_temple
@ICLR
@Maggotlaw

Legal practice
@richardmoorhead
@CivLitTweet

Employment
@danielbarnett
@LauraThompson

EU/Brexit
@StevePeers
@sylviademars
@GeorgePeretzKC

Family
@familoo
@seethrujustice

Housing
@nearlylegal

LGBT
@DrSandraDuffy

Media law
@jtownend

Public law
@adamwagner1

Tech
@lilianedwards

Please add others below

Any lawyers, of any kind - practising, academic, or otherwise - following this account, please introduce yourselves as a reply to this post so that others may find you.

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1590812793787518977

If correct, Musk contemplating the bankruptcy of Twitter is not a surprise

The reported structure of the acquisition, with Twitter saddled with interest payments greater than revenue, always meant a crush was coming unless there was a sudden upswing

What puzzles is not Musk’s ineptitude, but how serious financiers facilitated the deal

What were they expecting?

And what was their security?

Something is odd

In essence: Musk may be a buffoon, but those financing the acquisition of Twitter would not be.

And even if the lenders were somehow sentimental or easily impressed, their lawyers certainly would not have been.

(I used to be such a lawyer.)

The lawyers’ Due-Diligence would have been intense.

So: what security could the lenders have demanded before lending to Musk for this deal?

I think we are all about to find out.

This may not be pretty.

@EmmaKennedy

Bafflement is the starting point for me too. I am puzzled why serious lenders put serious money into this. They and their lawyers will not be sentimental.

For what puzzles me is not the buffoonery of Musk, but why serious lenders - with their even more serious advisers - would have proceeded with financing this acquisition, knowing the likelihood of failure.

And some lenders plan for failure, just as some lenders plan for success.

If we assume the lenders for Musk’s acquisition of Twitter were properly advised and did their due diligence, then we can assume Twitter’s precarious state would not be a surprise even if Musk’s current antics were unexpected.

If this further assumption is correct, then the lenders would not be expecting Musk to succeed, but to fail.

In essence, this would not be about getting a return on their investment, but about enforcing the security.

If so, what would that be?

I remember the general election of 2010 on Twitter, and the general elections of 2015, 2017 and 2019. I remember the election of Trump and the Brexit referendum.

I remember how they all played out through Twitter.

(Including the good and fun parts: Four Seasons anyone?)

I wonder if 2022 will be the last major "Twitter" vote in UK and US and whether, by 2024 - where US and UK next likely to go to polls - will be in a different social media landscape.

And what will change?