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On the naughty step

Having discovered that I am the receipient of John Bolch's coveted post of the month award for the last Naughty Step post, it seemed like time for another. Given that the award was only received due to the unreasonable delay of Geeklawyer in delivering his...

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The Job Ad

Or strictly speaking the ad for me. I'm due to qualify at the end of September and so I'm hunting for a newly qualified post. Anyone interested in employing an experienced, enthusiastic, dedicated and, casting false modesty to the winds, frankly damn good...

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Sorry…

I'm afraid that detailed comments on Weaver and Malcolm, let alone anything else will have to wait until the weekend, just in case anyone was looking for them. Actual and very urgent casework has intervened, involving quite the most ridiculous reason given...

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Scraping a second

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...

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And another housing law blog

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...

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LSC to grade advocates?

By an unexpected route, the following landed in my inbox. I haven't heard anything about this, nor had some friends in Criminal so this may be news. What is clear is that the Legal Services Commission are seeking to introduce competence assessments for...

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I give in.

I have ignored this question, then I have mocked it. But dammit, the google searches for 'what is Anor in legal terms', or variants thereof, keep flooding in. They are now up to about 15 or more a week. So I give in. Clearly absolutely nobody is able to...

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On the naughty step

The family firm. It has such a reassuring sound, redolent of values of client care handed down through the generations, and the energy of youth brought under the careful supervision of wisdom. The very best traditions of the local small firm, a foundation...

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A use for twitter?

Apart from being an entertaining time waster, Twitter might also serve as notification of updates on specialist rss feeds. This is, naturally, Nick Holmes' suggestion. So, as a first experiment, www.twitter.com/housinglaw should give updates on new posts on...

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On the naughty step

On the naughty step this week is Susan Orton, a conveyancing assistant at Harold G Walker in Bournemouth, at which her husband was a senior partner. Mrs Orton made away with £79,655 from the firm's client account over 2 years, after blowing £30,000 from the...

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Me too, Me too!

I am really not sure what on earth I'm going to do with it, but because Nick Holmes seems fairly sure that it is worth trying out uses for Twitter, I've signed up. As has John at Family Lore. Where it goes from here, apart from wasting time that I haven't...

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