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Morning Tweeties Am off shortly to resumed appeal by Paul Chambers, the airport bomb Tweet-joker, at Doncaster Crown court. It all seems..

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..trivial but there are potentially serious legal issues behind such questions as why the CPS chose to use not the specific anti-bomb hoax..

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..of us at the late great Clem Attlee's suggestion). It requires much less proof of serious intent. Anyway, I'm Twittering early to give...

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..law but one originally designed in the 30s to protect 'female telephonists at the Post Office' from nuisance callers (and extended to all

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..those interested a short reading list. For story so far, see my colleague Robert Booth's piece:

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on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/24/twitter-joke-trial-bomb-threat

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For fascinating legal background, check out anything by David Allen Green, especially these two links from his blog and The Lawyer:

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The blog wrap-up piece is: http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2010/03/bomb-hoaxes-and-public-interest.html

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And The Lawyer one: www.thelawyer.com/the-twitter-“bomb-hoax”-case-worse-than-we-thought?/1003651.article There's also a good comment on

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www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/oct/04/paul-chambers-terror-tweet-free-speech by Jacob Rowbottom of Cambridge Uni

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Tweet trial due to start 10.30 and could be over quickly if hammer/nut argument accepted

Paul @pauljchambers

Eyes are crusted over, need to shake that off before the start of proceedings.

Paul @pauljchambers

Also, won't be tweeting much until later. Haven't paid my phone bill, which apparently is a problem when you want a service provided.

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The man himself is Tweeting cheerily btw - http://twitter.com/pauljchambers - probs with a phone bill he warns his own Tweetifollowers

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#twitterjoketrial no start til 11 what a surprise. Fantastic rainbow over Donny

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#Twitterjoketrial Is great interest in the case in Tweetand as well as the law veritably a Tweet Treat Going in soon

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#Twitterjoketrial. OK in court now so radio silence will follow for awhile. More thereafter

dag @d_a_t_green

Going into court... #TwitterJokeTrial

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#Twitterjoketrial. Judge has rejected defence attempt to throw out case straight away

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#twitterjoketrial. She finds at this stage that Chambers' Tweet was menacing, that he must have known it might..

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#twitterjoketrial. ..be taken that way, and that Twitter is a public network. Those were grounds for appeal

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#Twitterjoketrial. Defence case now trying to persuade her otherwise, starting with PC evidence

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#twitterjoketrial. So I must now go back in. More in due course

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#Twitterjoketrial. Chambers' evidence was repeated denials that he maent menace or had the slightest notion that..

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#Twitterjoketrial ..anyone might feel threatened. Cross examination went for the latter Defence..