Assoc. Prof, PFHEA, Assoc Director @CLASS_UH Law Teacher of the Year Finalist 2020, & current judge Co-founded UH/Blackstone's National Criminal Advocacy Comp
High Wycombe, England
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It’s Monday. It’s Episode 2.
One hapless Silk. One man in glasses.
One basic advocacy lesson.
Keep it simple.
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Advocacy, Illustrated
Episode 1
Examination-in-chief: non-leading questions.
One basic advocacy skill. One illustrated lesson.
Every Monday.
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Something new.
Every Monday I will be posting comic strip me demonstrating an advocacy skill and comic strip me explaining it. All intended for those beginning their advocacy journey.
Advocacy, Illustrated
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Today, the National Junior Lawyers Division is publishing the findings of its survey of 476 past and current SQE candidates. To our knowledge, this is one of the largest independent surveys of the SQE cohort conducted to date.
Some of the headline findings:
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Ezra Klein: "Having AI summarize a book or paper for me is a disaster.
It has no idea what I really wanted to know and wouldn't have made the connections I would've made. I'm interested in the thing I will see that other people wouldn't have seen, and I think AI typically sees what everybody else would see.
I'm not saying that AI can't be useful, but I'm pretty against shortcuts.
And obviously, you have to limit the amount of work you're doing. You can't read literally everything. But in some ways, I think it's more dangerous to think you've read something that you haven't than to not read it at all.
I think the time you spend with things is pretty important."
@ezraklein
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Yes.
Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.
Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
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we're honestly so cooked. how is this not the headline and the only thing that matters. and instead everyone is desperate to pretend they're modern and forward thinking by insisting you use AI in every assignment
OpenAI, the company whose ChatGPT tool helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of university life.
Here's what the company told me about its plans to conquer campuses.
nytimes.com/2025/06/07/techn…
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Technology can lead us to forget what we're even capable of doing; make us believe that tasks and attributes once considered basic and ordinary are now beyond human capacity. Hence the danger in thoughtlessly yielding to its temptations.
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ChatGPT didn't create a crisis in education-it simply revealed what was brewing for decades. Students need to see the purpose and value in what they do. That means we need to speak to students beyond AI about why learning matters.
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Here’s the thing:
The more you outsource your thinking to AI, the less well you’ll be able to think independent of it.
This is true even of those who were educated before its invention.
Students today, who did not have the mental training of an education, are outsourcing their thinking entirely to it and will never develop those skills.
It’s not “oh no, these kids are being lazy and using technology to cheat;” it’s “these kids are never going to develop the ability to think well on any topic.”
If you think this is just the latest iteration in a series of technological advances that complicates education, you’ve got it wrong. It is nothing less than the destruction of education itself.
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Some news, team! 🎙️
I’m so excited to make my broadcasting debut for BBC Radio 4 next week.
‘You Do Not Have to Say Anything’ is a 10 episode behind-the-scenes peek at (and love letter to) the criminal justice system.
Join me, Mon-Fri at 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds 🧡
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📣We are now accepting entries to our 2025 essay competition! Open to those undertaking criminal pupillages, studying on the BPTC, and to BPTC grads awaiting / applying for pupillage. £2000 up for grabs! 📣Please RT.
Further details on our website👇
thekalishertrust.org/2025/01…
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For those interested, this toolkit provides numerous examples and strategies for mitigating the risk of generative AI related integrity concerns in higher education settings. 100% of the higher ed providers in Aus responded to the RFI and this is a culmination of their responses.
TEQSA has launched a new toolkit designed to support the #HigherEd sector in addressing the risk #GenAI poses to the integrity of awards.
👉teqsa.gov.au/guides-resource…
ALT Image has a blue background, TEQSA's logo is white and located at the top of the image. The lower right-hand corner of the image is orange, with a blue illustration of a brain. At the centre of the image, white writing reads - Gen AI strategies for Australian higher education: Emerging practice.
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Just a reminder that the US Bill of Rights (1791) is also 94% AI generated. Show this to people who trust the reliability of AI detection tools.
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This looks like the first #auslaw case in which a solicitor has been referred to the professional regulator for submitting AI generated written subs which contained "hallucinations" (aka authorities which do not actually exist): jade.io/article/1092470
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Join us for an in-depth discussion on the role of computer-generated evidence in legal disputes. This talk will discuss the potential impact of computer bugs on the reliability of electronic evidence.
🗓️ 22 October, 6pm
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