I have listed below a few of Simons posts on twitter which give an insight into the person.
I agree with Grahame about Ngb and the help he has given Jeremy he has been unbelievable and everyone loves him. Jeremy must have two of the nicest people in the legal profession helping him right now
@simonmckay has to go to the rugby. Not Wales v France but a little known game in N Yorkshire at which his fine 12 year old boy is playing...
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If any other person bound by the OSA was found to have "blurred the line" of duty and friendship, they'd have been arrested. Why not Fox?
@simonmckay Ordinary individuals get arrested, often dramatically, where there is even a suggestion there has been a breach of the OSA. Why not Fox?
@simonmckay He was Secretary of State for Defence and invited his friend to official meetings and functions! That's reasonable grounds to suspect alone
@simonmckay The most pernicious aspect of this is its effect: that our elected officials consider there is one rule for them and another for the people
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@simonmckay After reading thousands of pages of depositions from the States, I've caught the witness in a catalogue of lies. The truth always endures...
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@simonmckay "Where after all do human rights begin? In small places, so small they do not appear on any map of the world". E Roosevelt
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Lawyers and anyone interested in human rights generally may wish to follow the exceptional Hugh Southy QC@HumanRightsQC
9 October 2011 09:17:56
by simonmckay
9 October 2011 12:18:11
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay I am genuinely lost for words at such kind words from someone whose tweets are extraordinarily informative.
9 October 2011 12:03:40
by HumanRightsQC
@HumanRightsQC my pleasure Hugh
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@simonmckay "You cannot wish them to expiate their crimes with their lives - you cannot desire that they should be hanged..." Sir William Garrow, 1813
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@simonmckay reading Smith & Hogans Crim Law,noticed your name as a reviewer, David Ormerod writes so well. u still ok to blog for me Simon?
5 October 2011 10:23:48 @simonmckay @legalacademia David O is great; we wrote a piece for Crim LR a few years ago and I reviewed a couple of chapters on his first Smith & Hogan
5 October 2011 09:23:35
@simonmckay @legalacademia will get something to you soon for the blog
@simonmckay I'd like to meet him,a lot of my work gives credit to his thought process on crim law. OK,will sit tight for the blog, thank you
5 October 2011 10:15:52
by legalacademia
@legalacademia I used to do the odd lecture with him but he does much less now he's a Law Commissioner. Will introduce you some time
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5 October 2011 10:23:48
@simonmckay is delivering a lecture today to a range of police officers on planning a covert policing operation that will withstand legal challenge
@CrimeCounsel I give them the mckay-law-matrix: a venn diagram on methodology they can carry with them as a reminder of our time together
4 October 2011 06:40:15
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay You're telling them the rules? It will be revelatory - and then forgotten.
4 October 2011 06:35:11
by CrimeCounsel
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@simonmckay As America embraces a free Amanda Knox, I hope it hangs its head in shame that it does so in the shadow of Troy Davis' execution last month
Knox appeal judgment todayhttp://t.co/QrJ5wo6C
10 minutes to judgment in #knoxcase: live on sky news
3 October 2011 20:21:39
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay live and better on BBC News
3 October 2011 20:25:09
by BBCDanielS
@BBCDanielS yes, of course, with the advantage of Mr Sandford's perceptive analysis - he knows how to cover a miscarriage of justice
3 October 2011 20:27:19
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay Justice is so rare it can seem at times as if a rumour of a thing of the past. Tonight its presence can be felt: the commonality of law
@simonmckay If the conviction is quashed the Italian system should celebrated:as Atticus Finch said justice is not an ideal but a living working reality
@simonmckay She wins: a great day for justice
@simonmckay The only thing more incredible than the verdict is the dignity of the Kercher family
@Bambertweets @EddieGilfoyleI hope the Knox case is your prelude
3 October 2011 21:01:30
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@CrimeCounsel sure but remember someone has been convicted and who as far as I'm aware is not appealing. I think a bold but correct decision
3 October 2011 21:03:34
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay But the court said they did not commit the offence... Couldn't they have just said not sure?
3 October 2011 21:01:09
by CrimeCounsel
Sollecito's father could not have acted with more humanity or given more to his son's cause
3 October 2011 21:09:01
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay Time I hope to put the flawed investigation on trial: the Kercher family are entitled to answers
@fieldproducer@KeirSimmonsITV their legal insights have been pretty poor - thought the Murray commentary this evening was woeful
3 October 2011 21:22:02
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@KeirSimmonsITV it wasn't just tweeting news orgs also ran the wrong line
3 October 2011 21:19:48
by fieldproducer
Perhaps we all ought to talk about that fact that Twitter seems to have failed tonight - mass tweeting of wrong verdict in Knox case.
3 October 2011 21:17:12
by KeirSimmonsITV
@simonmckay Fascinated that justice traverses continents; when it uncommonly puts in an appearance it speaks a universal language
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Shocking advocacy by the prosecutor at the opening of the Michael Jackson homicide trial
@legalacademia yes, judge permitted cameras in - good illustration of how not to open a case
27 September 2011 18:02:06
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay is this televised?#haveImissedatrick
27 September 2011 17:57:28
by legalacademia
Prosecutor uses power point slides with watermark of Michael Jackson's corpse. Novel concept of prosecutorial independence
RT @simonmckay How is the jury supposed to follow the medical jargon the prosecutor is spewing out. This is dreadful stuff
@TooManyBlueys this is for real
27 September 2011 18:37:18
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay are you joking? Is this a spoof?
27 September 2011 18:24:04
by TooManyBlueys
@oldlawyer1 I can't believe it
27 September 2011 18:37:37
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay beyond belief! ethics?
27 September 2011 18:24:44
by oldlawyer1
@bhamiltonbruce quite unbelievable
27 September 2011 18:38:02
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay that's an 'interesting' technique - keeps jury focused on victim?
27 September 2011 18:25:36
by bhamiltonbruce
@Robert_HM extraordinary!
27 September 2011 18:38:24
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay I noticed and thought "sick"
27 September 2011 18:30:27
by Robert_HM
Defence rely on a cardboard sign to capture the essential questions which appear to have little to do with the ingredients of the offence
@simonmckay The prosecution has been out done by the woeful defence. Its difficult to comprehend this is a manslaughter trial and in the public eye.
@MTPT unless more appetite there than here, a hiding to nothing
27 September 2011 19:24:30
from Twitter for BlackBerry®
@simonmckay Laying foundation for appeal on grounds of incompetent defence?
27 September 2011 19:21:12
by MTPT
@simonmckay Murray has seemingly genuine tearful moment which may save him from his lawyer (or possibly as a result of his dreadful opening)