"Dear @TheSunNewspaper. The Human Rights Act has nothing to do with the EU and the Court of Appeal is not an EU court!" wrote 1 Crown Office Row barrister Adam Wagner yesterday on Twitter.
He was responding to The Sun's "Inhuman Rights" story – which mangled a host of legal facts.
At which point, as Wagner's tweet was retweeted over 50 times, the legal profession's pent-up frustration with Britain's favourite red top began to spill forth in a glorious stream of anti-tabloid bile (some of which is pictured below)...
It continued overnight after Wagner, who juggles his barristerial duties with editing the UK Human Rights Blog, issued a post entitled "No, The Sun, the Human Rights Act is not the EU". It has already drawn a number of comments from lawyers lampooning the News International title.
As yet, no one from The Sun has been brave enough to issue a response.
