Monthly Archive for April, 2007

A busy day

By NL on 30/04/2007. 0 Comments

So noted in passing:

Everybody’s favourite still wet behind the ears barrister, Tom Brennan, has had the full day of argument on the validity of his claim and the matter has apparently been adjourned.  Of course, the BBC don’t tell us whether Mr Brennan was successful in arguing for the validity of his claim and the matter adjourned for the hearing of its substance, or whether the Court adjourned to give its ruling later. Ho hum.

The House of Lords has begun hearing YL (by her litigation friend the Official Receiver) (FC) v. Birmingham City Council and others, the care home case, which could have significant repercussions … Read the full post

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It speaks…

By NL on 28/04/2007. 0 Comments

I have just had the great pleasure of doing a podcast with Charon QC, talking about mature entry to the law, the LPC and recruitment, and legal aid. I also made a faltering attempt to explain the tolerated tresspasser issue. The podcast is now up on his blog.

I enjoyed myself thoroughly. Your mileage may vary (although Charon is superb as ever).… Read the full post

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Please, No. It's just wrong.

By NL on 25/04/2007. 0 Comments

My jaw dropped at this post from Lo-fi librarian. You must see the post for lo-fi’s screenshots. Also in the Times Online.

Field Fisher Waterhouse have opened an office in Second Life.

This is just wrong in so many ways.

The media hype about ‘real world’ businesses and politicians setting up in Second Life has faded after the first rush about 6 months ago, so the publicity value is low – I didn’t see mention of it before yesterday in the mainstream media and that a minor one – so it becomes a classic too-late jump on the bandwagon by a law firm.

And then, in a virtual … Read the full post

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Unified Contract Judicial Review goes ahead

By NL on 24/04/2007. 0 Comments

Issued on 20th April – sorry to be a bit slow.

Lots of PDFs on the Law Society page here. So we are back to wait and see.

But even if the contract has to be reformulated, it won’t change the really damaging stuff that the LSC proposes to introduce within the framework of the contract. At the risk of sounding like Sian Lloyd, the long term outlook remains cloudy and cold. Wrap up warm…… Read the full post

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Curse this anonymity thing.

By NL on 24/04/2007. 0 Comments

There are times, such as this, that the requirements of anonymity are a bit annoying. Much though I enjoy the dark powers conferred by my mask of mystery, being the Fantômas of housing law, it does mean that some things can’t be posted about at the time or at all because they are too much of a damn obvious give away.

So, when I’m involved in a very interesting case, which may turn out to be a test case for certain propositions, I have to bite my tongue. I take consolation in the fact that as the matter is in process, I couldn’t post about it anyway.

The matter will … Read the full post

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Glittering Prizes

By NL on 23/04/2007. 0 Comments

Not that I am at all obsessive about such things, at least not since I forced myself to keep checking down to once a month or so, but out of the allegedly 71 million blogs tracked by Technorati (surely less than half of which are active), Nearly Legal has crashed – or perhaps tiptoed – into the top 100,000. In fact it currently stands at 96,524. Definitely in the relegation zone compared to the premiership giants like the Barrister Blog, Binary Law and of course Charon QC, but blimey, nonetheless.

If I could only summon up the strength to squash my scruples (ooh err missus), I could … Read the full post

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Now there's a thought

By NL on 23/04/2007. 0 Comments

I was talking with a friend this weekend, one of the few people who know my secret identity. ‘Why’, my friend asked me, ‘don’t you have more about criminal law and practice on the blog?’

‘More?’, I said, ‘I have nothing about Criminal on there’. ‘Exactly’, said my friend.

This set me thinking. Admittedly, the first thoughts were ‘I know nothing about Criminal beyond the GDL and LPC’, closely followed by ‘start your own blog then’. But I like to think I am not necessarily a creature of instinct, so I thought some more.

It has to be said that there are some very good uk criminal based blogs out … Read the full post

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