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Carl Gardner
Personal blog · headoflegal.compoliticsother
Carl Gardner writes Head of Legal, a personal blog at headoflegal.com about politics. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Carl Gardner's legal blog for its analysis of English law and court cases, such as the Assange embassy arrest threat and rebuttals of press reporting on the secret family court.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2013/12/04/booker-hemming-and-the-forced-caesarian-case-a-masterclass-in-flat-earth-news/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-17
What Hacker News says?
I strongly advise anyone who isn't familiar with English law (so, you know, most people here) to actually read what lawyers have to say about the matter. There is a very good legal analysis here: http://www.headoflegal.com/2012/08/15/julian-assange-can-the... Whenever I see a story here about Julian Assange I just sigh. I don't understand how on the one hand people can be absolutely appalled when stories about sexis…
Comment linking /2012/08/15/julian-assange-can-the-uk-withdraw-diplomatic-status-from-the-ecuadorian-embassy/
on “UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange”The article is full of distortions. http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCC/Fam/2013/B14.html http://www.headoflegal.com/2013/12/04/booker-hemming-and-the...
Comment linking /2013/12/04/booker-hemming-and-the-forced-caesarian-case-a-masterclass-in-flat-earth-news/
on “How Britain's most secret court imprisoned a grandmother”It's not the whole truth, it's blatant bollocks and it's really disappointing to see many on HN fail to do even simple debunking. http://www.headoflegal.com/2013/12/04/booker-hemming-and-the... http://www.pinktape.co.uk/cases/i-am-calm/
Comment linking /2013/12/04/booker-hemming-and-the-forced-caesarian-case-a-masterclass-in-flat-earth-news/
on “How Britain's most secret court imprisoned a grandmother”Something to read for background on Booker's flakey reporting: http://www.headoflegal.com/2013/12/04/booker-hemming-and-the... There are a decent number of factual refutions of Booker's claims in several past cases.
Comment linking /2013/12/04/booker-hemming-and-the-forced-caesarian-case-a-masterclass-in-flat-earth-news/
on “How Britain's most secret court imprisoned a grandmother”