Good morning and welcome to Court 1 of Southwark Crown Court. Comedy writer and campaigner Graham Linehan (GL) is appealing his conviction for criminal damage to a mobile phone. He arrived at court around 9.39am
Live tweets follow.
The signal here is not great which might mean I update in batches.
The appeal is scheduled for two days (today and tomorrow). Mrs Justice Tipples (J) presiding. Sarah Vine KC (SV) is appearing for GL and Julia Faure Walker (FW) is appearing for the CPS.
There are two journalists in court. GL is sitting behind his legal team in the well of the court. There are four members of the public. There is a live link for observers.
Judge is here. GL acknowledges who he is.
FW on her feet. Wants to raise a prelim matter of order made in Nov 2024 - which has only just come to both parties attn. Hard copies are being distributed.
FW on her feet. Wants to raise a prelim matter of order made in Nov 2024 - which has only just come to both parties attn. Hard copies are being distributed.
J - I have no recollection of this
FW had you done you may have informed the parties
FW Sophia Brooks [SB - the original complainant] who is at court recognised your name and when I saw her this morning she drew my attn to this.
FW had you done you may have informed the parties
FW Sophia Brooks [SB - the original complainant] who is at court recognised your name and when I saw her this morning she drew my attn to this.
FW We were not aware of this, it is not in the public domain. It is an order re another case in which these parties are involved.
J what do you want to do? make an application? take stock?
J what do you want to do? make an application? take stock?
FW there is an arguable case that this gives rise to an appearance of bias. That may well be what we do next
J my reaction is that I have no recollection of this - if I had I would have done something. The way forward is for you and SV to make an application as you see fit. I have no recollection...
, but if there is a concern and ther is an application to be made, obvs I have to deal with this. How long do you need.
FW not long.
[Tipples (J) is sitting with a panel. She’s explaining the situation to them]
[Tipples (J) is sitting with a panel. She’s explaining the situation to them]
J we’ll rise until 1040. There are also housekeeping ground rules to deal with, but let’s sort this problem out first.
[court rises]
[court rises]
[Got my internet sorted thanks to help from Mathilde from PA Media who has told me about gov wifi. This is new to me.]
[Parties are ready to discuss situation with J. We don't know exactly what the situation is as we can't see the order. SB does not appear to be in court.]
Here is Southwark Crown Court btw
[They have nice security and a v good coffee bar on the ground floor. The toilets are clean and the lifts take forever.]
If all this is a mystery to you, I've done some extensive work on the original Glinner trial. You can read into it here: genderblog.net/?s=linehan
All my work on the genderblog website is crowdfunded, so please do consider donating. Though given the entire appeal hearing...
All my work on the genderblog website is crowdfunded, so please do consider donating. Though given the entire appeal hearing...
... appears to be in jeopardy right now, hold off doing anything till we are definitely underway. Unless you have been meaning to donate and now w for work already done of course. genderblog.net/donate/
[J is back]
J I was asked to hear this appeal a little while ago in the place of another J who was unavail. Not sure when you became aware I was hearing the case
FW two days ago
J I was asked to hear this appeal a little while ago in the place of another J who was unavail. Not sure when you became aware I was hearing the case
FW two days ago
J since then I've been in corr with you and SV to manage the case and get it ready. Obvs if I had any recollection of the parties I would have flagged it. I had no such recollection.
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