Tag Archive for 'law-blogs-and-blogging'

Mutual appreciation

By NL on 28/06/2009. 0 Comments

Tessa Shepperson’s Landlord law blog has been up since February 2006, predating us by four months. The name is slightly misleading – Tessa deals with residential landlord and tenant matters and has much to say of interest for private tenants as well as landlords – see, for example, today’s helpful post on the use of credit unions to avoid banks seizing Local Housing Allowance money from tenants’ current accounts to pay other debts, thus leading to rent arrears. Her blog has also pointed to new tenancy deposit cases that we have gratefully pounced on.

Tessa has just said some nice things about this blog in a post on current housing/L&T … Read the full post

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Now we are three

By NL on 06/06/2009. 0 Comments

It seems like it was just yesterday it started, albeit with a very long and restless night in between, but Nearly Legal is now three years old, which in internet terms is late middle age to bus pass territory.

But, if I wondered how the time was actually spent, the stats tell their own story. That three years is is 651 posts worth (which is one post every 1.6 days). Not that everyone else didn’t chip in – there have been 2,349 comments as well.

And it has been quite a trip. For instance, in June 2007, the blog had 3,462 page views. In May 2008, 9,744. In May 2009, … Read the full post

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A modest proposal

By NL on 29/07/2008. 9 Comments

October, new post qualification job and all, is going to be something of a crunch point for this blog. Time, which has been very tight for the last few months, is simply not going to be available to keep Nearly Legal going in the same way. There are three options that I can see:

1. Nearly Legal stops updating and the archive just sits here. Not a good option – I find the blog useful and interesting and I hope others do.

2. Things totter onwards at a much reduced rate. This would be difficult to keep up and means missing out useful content.

3. Nearly Legal becomes a collaborative … Read the full post

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Plaudit

By NL on 23/07/2008. 2 Comments

I have been reading Usefully Employed’s blog pretty much since it started. It was always an interesting read on employment matters and broader topics. But I have to say that since March, with a redesign, some added features like an EAT decisions feed, and frequent, superbly clear and well written posts on Tribunal, EAT and statutory employment related matters, it has really come in to its own. Try the post on the contentious Christian Registrar case Ladele v LB Islington as a sample.

I do feel that there are still far too few substantive law blogs existing in the UK, certainly outside those dealing with IP law. Those that do … Read the full post

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Happy happy

By NL on 13/07/2008. 13 Comments

I can’t resist the third person, so..

Nearly Legal has an assistant solicitor post in a damn good housing department in a good firm now sorted out for post-qualification in October. No, I’m not telling you where, nor am I casting aside anonymity. Not now anyway.

Nearly Legal is also off on holiday for the next 10 days or so. I’m not going near the internet, so anything that comes up in the meantime will have to wait for my return.… Read the full post

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Scraping a second

By NL on 24/06/2008. 10 Comments

I managed to miss an anniversary, a bit like my own birthdays these days. Nearly Legal was two years old on the first of June. Two years! That is positively middle aged in internet years, fittingly making the blog roughly as old as I am.

It has been quite a trip. I can safely say that I didn’t plan what Nearly Legal has turned into at all, nor did I expect what was always going to be a very niche blog to get the range of readers and calibre of commentors that it has. For all who comment and email, my thanks. It is, quite honestly, what keeps the blog … Read the full post

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And another housing law blog

By NL on 21/06/2008. 2 Comments

The world domination plan is on schedule as another housing law blog starts up…

A warm welcome to ‘The snail in that legal bottle‘, by Ethan, a ‘housing sector legal person’.

Unfortunately, by way of greeting I popped over late last night and left an inadvertently pompous hatchet job in a comment to a post. I was under the initial, but brief, impression I was doing friendly discussion. Well done me.… Read the full post

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