Monthly Archive for December, 2006

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A dialogue (of sorts) with Netrank.

By NL on 14/12/2006. 0 Comments

I have an email from Ellie Precious. On the plus side, that is a response within 36 hours of my original post. Not bad as a damage limitation reaction time. On the minus side, it was an email, not posted as a response to the post, which shows a continued level of not really getting it. So, in a spirit of helpfulness, here is the email, with my responses. I should make clear that this is not response personally directed at ‘Ellie’. As with the first post, any references to ‘you’ should be assumed to refer to Netrank.

Hi there,

Well hello.

I have spoken to my team about your

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Eleanor Precious doesn't really like me.

By NL on 12/12/2006. 0 Comments

Today I got an email from Eleanor (or Ellie) Precious, which enclosed a press release on a survey of law firms’ views on the likely effects of Age Discrimination law on their firms. I’m not going to link to it here, for reasons that will become obvious, but the firm that undertook the survey was F*x W****ams.

Now the press release wasn’t uninteresting, although peppered with links to *ox **lli**s, in fact the only links were to *** *i******. But I don’t know anybody called Ellie Precious, let alone an Ellie who routinely emails to herself with my address as ‘envelope to’. So I was curious.

Maybe, I thought, it … Read the full post

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Sometimes I’m not a nice person.

By NL on 12/12/2006. 0 Comments

Nobody sets aside my default judgements. Oh and costs as well? Thank you.

If you ever imagine Nearly Legal as a person, then imagine that homunculous dancing a little dance of triumphant joy, whilst repeatedly slapping the humiliated opponent with an unanswerable witness statement.… Read the full post

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What did you say?

By NL on 06/12/2006. 0 Comments

I’ve been to Court a few times over the last week or two, including a several day trial (on which more another time, as there were interesting arguments involved). Across these hearings, there have been some significant concerns raised over witness statements. Not any of mine (as in drafted by me), I hasten to add, but lessons to be learnt, nonetheless, with some very pointed remarks coming from District and Circuit Judges.

The first issue concerned witness statements made by people who can’t read. A witness statement made and signed by a witness did not have a certificate made by an authorised person as described in PD 22, despite … Read the full post

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Banned from court!

By NL on 05/12/2006. 1 Comment

The Law Society’s ‘what price justice‘ campaign hits a snag when solicitors are banned from wearing these small, well designed and unobtrusive badges in Magistrates’ Court

What price justice

Actually, on closer inspection, it turns out to be a great PR opportunity based on one Magistrate in Stoke on Trent having a bit of wobbly, but hey, the upside is that the Law Society have got someone with a bit of nous doing PR.

By any means necessary, comrades.… Read the full post

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Vanity Fair (somewhere in the 1st terrace of hell).

By NL on 04/12/2006. 0 Comments

Nearly Legal made the blawgreview 86.

I am Becky Sharpe, albeit a Becky with a trumpet of her very own. (I do realise possession of a trumpet with intent to play equates less to social climbing minx and more to nuisance neighbour.)

Still, as someone who has used and abused Dante allegories all too often in the past, may I say ‘Oh well played sir’ to Colin Samuels, although surely both the pride and avarice terraces could have been more thickly populated…… Read the full post

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Law Search

By NL on 03/12/2006. 0 Comments

I’ve been toying with the idea for while, since I discovered Google Co-op. Why not a search engine dedicated to legal resources/information/commentary, bringing together the scattered information and comment that is already out there?

So, with a small parp of the trumpets, here is an alpha version. It is also accessible via the ‘Law search’ tab at the top of the page. Note that this search only covers freely accessible sites. Closed commercial sites will not show up.

There are over [edit] 90 sites in the list so far (and much thanks to Delia Venables for the superb work in collating and organising resources). But although I’m adding … Read the full post

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