Vanessa Reid examines regulatory oversight over social media for legal practitioners
Jon Holbrook – a public law barrister who was widely criticised and ultimately expelled from his Chambers last year for a tweet in which he referred to a schoolchild involved in a race discrimination case as a: “stroppy teenager of colour – has successfully appealed a £500 fine imposed for a different tweet in a decision hand...
The BTAS decision … provides helpful new guidance regarding the scope of regulatory oversight of social media use by registered professionals.
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Derogatory or abusive language will be more likely to justify regulatory interference with political expression, but the relevant speech must be “seriously offensive” or “seriously discreditable”.
