LEGAL TWITTER

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LEGAL TWITTER

Twitter is addictive. Like a tube of Pringles or a boyfriend with a neck tattoo, you know you shouldn’t keep going back but you just can’t help yourself.

Even people who like Twitter call it a ‘Hellsite’ and sure enough Beelzebub himself would flinch at some of the unpleasantness to be found there. But there are seams of gold glinting in those infernal caverns, and Legal Twitter is one of the shiniest.

The superstars like the Secret Barrister and Joanna Hardy- Susskind (whom some believe to be the same person) are prolific and forensic dissecters of the legal issues of the day. So too is David Allen-Green. Others are more niche and sometimes more divisive, like Jolyon Maugham who leads the Good Law Project into regular battles with the government. Others still are just ordinary practitioners offering pithy aperçus about day-to-day lawyering.

There is rage here, but there is humour too. ■