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@davidgreen Thanks for the factual corrections, each point is taken, but none of belies my observation that the twitter joke trial raised a very simple question, and to my mind at least was a case of obvious error in the lower court being corrected on appeal. I don't buy for a moment the point re the divided divisional court showing matters weren't straightforward. Judges have different opinions and dissent from one another all the time. All the first court proves is the general unwisdom of judges sitting in even numbers. (My guess is that they disagreed over whether the finding of menace was a finding of fact, which, on an appeal by case stated, they had no jurisdiction to reverse. In one sense, of course, it was such a finding, but so perverse was that finding, given the nature of the tweet, that one hardly needed to be Lord Denning at his disingenuous best to say that an error of law could be detected.) And talking of disingenuous, references to Cooper dominating the TV coverage are rather incomplete, aren't they, when you yourself argue above the line that a disregard of social media makes you a media Adullamite? Anyone using Twitter would have been challenged to miss the torrent of self-regarding posts from you about the trial. Including classic publicising tactics like "teasers" (the solitary "Gosh" gambit). All this being said, it is good of you to take time out from your no doubt busy legal practice to reply.

13-Aug-2012

2:19 pm