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RCJ evicts thousands…

From The Times, 12 November 1866

The extensive and complicated network of lanes, courts and alleys covering the area bounded east and west by Bell Yard and Clement’s Inn, north by Carey Street, and south by the Strand and Fleet Street, lately containing a population more numerous than that of many Parliamentary boroughs, is being fast deserted. A few of the winding thoroughfares are not yet disturbed, but several of old and worse than equivocal notoriety – and in which, a few weeks ago, passage was rendered somewhat difficult by the human swarms whose modes of existence are among the unsolved social mysteries – are now almost uninhabited, only a

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Badness in courts, of courts and of law lecturers

A quick outline of a busy news day…

What Price JusticeThe Court of Appeal says that (some) provisions of the Legal Services Commission’s Unified Contract are unlawful, specifically the most sweeping of the unilateral amendment clauses. The judgment is pretty devastating, finding for the Law Society on all points of its appeal of the earlier Judicial Review finding and against the LSC on their appeal. As a sample:

The power to amend (in this contract) is better characterised as a power to rewrite the contract.

Permission for the LSC to appeal refused, costs against the LSC. The judgment is here [pdf] and the Law Society’s comment here. What this will mean … Read the full post

Oh what a tangled web…

[Edit. This was originally posted on Friday evening 16/11/07. Not that I'm getting all conspiratorial but it disappeared in the great site downtime and server change... There was also originally an image, which has vanished from the server and apparently was deleted (by me) on my home machine. So, albeit imageless, I defy the internet gods and post this again]

While Musharraf tries to overcome the rule of law by imprisoning all the lawyers and the Lord Chief Justice pleads, probably in vain, for a genuine discussion of prison policy, Nearly Legal’s scarce free moments today have been largely consumed by the ramifications of the posturing of a small … Read the full post

Rumours of my demise…

… were entirely due to a technical hitch. Admittedly a walloping great big technical hitch which lasted 3 days and was only resolved by the site being moved a new server and the Domain Name Server records being updated. But as of 11.30 pm on Monday, the site is working again. What time you get to see it live once more depends on how slowly the new DNS information spreads around t’internet.

Still, the sense of panic, bewilderment and deprivation the 3 day outage instilled has set me wondering about little things like dependency, addiction and the whole quality of life issue…

By the way, if anyone emailed me between … Read the full post

Not the usual bug infestation

Hat tip to Cearta.ie for this extraordinary story from the Irish Times:

Landladies ordered to pay students €115,000 in damages
Simon Carswell 14 November 2007

Two Dublin landladies have been ordered to pay damages totalling more than €115,000 to 10 students who were tenants in their house after the Circuit Court found they had kept the students under secret electronic surveillance. …

The students became concerned in late 2004 that their conversations and activities were being monitored when the McKennas referred to details the students had discussed in private in the house. When they raised the issue with the McKennas, the students were evicted. … Judge Gerard Griffin yesterday found

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I may be some time…

Very very busy and very tired, I currently come home and just stare blankly at the demanding voracious maw of the blog monster-child. Being too shattered to come up with anything to stuff down its greedy gullet, I can only feel guilt at its piteous cries of abandonment. It’s like Eraserhead, honest.

Which is one way to say that I may not be posting for a while, depending. But I will at some point soon-ish, hand on heart.… Read the full post

A Coat of Gloss for the Bar

Now call me a cynic, but how much like PR nonsense does this article in the Times about the programme for the Bar Conference 2007 sound?

Ah, yes. Human Rights pervade all aspects of the profession, that and an ability to export legal services. Well yes, acting for vulture funds indicates a remarkable regard for human rights, so no contradiction there.

The organiser of the conference, Catherine Addy, a ‘young’ Chancery practioner is apparently terribly au courant with human rights. Heavens knows how it affects a Chancery practice, but never let it it be said that a lack of practical knowledge impedes a member of the bar. I’m also delighted … Read the full post



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