1. MI5 has been extremely busy lately inserting things into various people. What these things were, I didn’t enquire.
2. At least some parts of the Professional Skills Course, as undertaken by all trainees, are utterly pointless. Or, to put it another way, 100% of the PSC components with which I have so far been acquainted are utterly pointless. A nice little earner for the deliverers, though.
3. Despite previous mutterings and defamatory restaurant reviews, the defence of fair comment is alive and well, at least on appeal (Associated Newspapers -v- Burstein [2007] EWCA Civ 600). One can now safely be rude about bad operas, even if bad food and service require a cautious response. Certa.ie makes reasonable comment on fair comment.
4. Now that Goldsmith is going (what a surprise), there are mutterings over separating prosecutions and the CPS off from the purview of the Attorney General. While this would make a certain degree of sense, at least in reducing the appearance of political leanings in deciding on prosecutions, any change to the role will need to be very carefully considered.
And that is it. The week was otherwise far too full of filing to permit of learning.
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