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Max Hardy

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Max Hardy

@MaxJLHardy

Barrister | TV legal consultant (Code of Silence, Mr Bates, Landscapers, Defending the Guilty) | Legal blogger & media commentator | @KalisherTrust Trustee

9BR Chambers, Gray’s Inn

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Joined September 2009

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Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Jun 6, 2024
If you've been horrified for the first time, or again, after watching #TheWrongMan and hearing Andrew Malkinson quietly & calmly describe the abomination he suffered you might want to read this blog I wrote after representing him with @edwardhenry1: counselofperfection.blogspot.com/2023/08/just-o…
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Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
May 17, 2024
Just been served the worst cup of tea not just of my life but since the advent of agriculture.
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Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Jun 14, 2022
Yes it was a Conservative MP who played a leading role in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights. No Brexit does not disapply it. Yes it was born out of the ruins of WWII by those that actually fought it and wanted to do everything possible to prevent inhumanity.
Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
May 10, 2021
16 years a criminal barrister in London and never done an electoral fraud/voter impersonation case. Also don't know anyone who has. Voter ID is a solution without a problem. But voter ID is a problem.
Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Dec 29, 2023
I worked as a legal consultant on this show and it’s a story that needs telling to the widest possible audience.
ITV
@ITV
Dec 26, 2023
One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history ✉️ Mr Bates vs The Post Office starts 1st January at 9pm on ITV1 and @ITVX 👏 #MrBates
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Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Oct 9, 2022
Can somebody who has considerably more patience than I and who isn’t spending most of their waking hours in extreme anxiety about the state of the Criminal Justice System explain to the Home Secretary what making Cannabis a Class A drug would do to the Crown Court backlog.
Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Dec 15, 2019
Replying to @maddylloydjones and @wheatles
He looks 5 and she looks 25
Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Nov 4, 2021
Judge: ‘You have been found guilty by the jury.’ Defendant: ‘Yeah, well I’ve just abolished the jury so see you later, mate.’
Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Jan 2, 2020
If you're a law student worrying that it's not 'what you know but who you know' my DMs are always open for tips, advice and (if I'm available) arranging work experience.
Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Dec 6, 2019
A Crown Court: ‘Your Honour my client won’t be answering the prosecutor’s questions. He tells me that juries are fed up of this tired old format’
Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Dec 18, 2021
I reckon this waiting for Christmas lockdown announcement feeling is about as close as most of the nation will ever get to that special waiting for a verdict feeling you get when your client admitted the offence in cross-examination and swore at the judge in front of the jury.
Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Sep 13, 2020
We learn at Bar School, and again from the Inns of Court, and finally from our pupil supervisors that a barrister's reputation can be lost in a moment and once lost can never be retrieved. It's a lesson that bears repeating and is worth remembering regardless of rank & seniority.
Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Aug 11, 2019
Prison places for criminals who won’t be caught because the government slashed the police, won’t be prosecuted because the government slashed the CPS and won’t be tried because the government slashed the courts.
Max Hardy
@MaxJLHardy
Oct 3, 2021
Kudos and congratulations to everyone running the Marathon today. If you’re on the fence about having a go next year I can tell you that training for a Marathon was one of the most tedious and time consuming experiences of my life.