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Giles Peaker

The way we live now

I left this search query out of the last post because the more I thought about it, the more it seemed that this query, and the fact that someone put it into a search engine, somehow crystalised something of Britain in the noughties... supervising the passive...

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Obvious filler 3

I'm having a think about a post on housing law and human rights, but I am busy, tired and having to stand up on the train. In a week that brought us exposed judges, the inadvertent end of solitary confinement as the jails fill up, John Reid begging for...

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Difficult decisions

This weekend, my partner and I were trying to work out what we were going to do with the salsify that turned up in our organic box. It was a step into the unknown which caused some debate, so I have sympathy with John Reid and Charlie Falconer trying to work...

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Done and seen to be done.

Amidst the detritus of Mayors celebrating evictions for anti social behaviour and the dawn arrest of the PM's political liasion officer, I was struck by two things. One is that Ruth Turner, in common with most of the political class, doesn't know the meaning...

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La Boheme

Amidst the boredom, misery and frustration of handling new inquiries, one way of sustaining interest is identifying the theme of the day. There usually is a theme, frequently repeated. Generally, the theme is a single capitalised word, Desperation, for...

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Au Rebours

The kindly Family Lore has tagged me with the latest blogger's version of a chain letter, a meme tag. I vaguely recall seeing this one spreading amongst web designer blogs a couple of months ago and then it recently hit the law blogs like mutated bird flu. I...

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Comment spam

Apologies if you have had problems accessing the site. There is a torrent of comment spam posting going on and it is hitting my server heavily at the moment. None of it gets through, as I use Askimet for Wordpress, but each attempted spam comment means a...

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Off with their heads.

After endless consultations and a unilateral baring of heads by the parts of the High Court, it finally seems that the wig is to vanish from the civil courts. The craniums of judiciary and counsel shall henceforth be as stimulated by the air conditioned...

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Law Search now Beta 0.1

It is an ongoing process, but I think Law Search has reached Beta status, just, and has thus been promoted to the sidebar. The custom specialist search, via Google co-op, prioritises results from listed sites, but includes general search results. The listed...

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