Not content with passing off 'he was discussing insurance in my office' as an alibi for an alleged offence of abduction and extortion by a client in 2005, Shahid Pervez, a Scottish ex-conveyancer now convicted of perverting the course of justice, also fell...
Time fast and slow
Well that was quick. A few days and an intensive reminder of why I don't like defending ASB possession cases later and the holiday seems like nothing but an eye blink, already distant. Still, it was lovely while it lasted, although it always comes as a bit...
Legal Aid, one Judicial Review down…
The Society of Asian Lawyers and the Black Solicitors Network judicial review of the LSC proposals has been settled after an adjournment on the basis that the LSC carry out a full retrospective and prospective cumulative Race Equality Impact Assessment. (See...
Waiting for Counsel
(With apologies to Samuel Beckett, Literature, and everyone else) Act 1 Darkness. Lights up. Trainee sitting on a worn vinyl bench, to the right a board on the wall, with sheets of tattered A4 paper pinned to it. To the left a swing door. Trainee wrestles...
Double-take Corner
We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area. And "MR JUSTICE PETER SMITH: No, if you are going to say my conduct in court is quite remarkable, you have to say why. In which way do you think my conduct has been...
McGonagall
Corporate Blawg's Blawg Review is up. I believe the word that I am groping for is "awe", possibly "shock" as well, but definitely mostly awe. [For anyone bewildered by the title of this post, enlightenment may be found here]
UK 'surprisingly interesting' shock
There I was, coasting along in a post-blawg review smugness, when this post on Appellate Law & Practice popped up as an inbound link: There is a Blawg Review going on at Nearly Legal. The guy is a Brit, but he says a lot of interesting things about...
Call me Sibyl
I'm getting the hang of this prophecy thing. As I suggested a week ago, the role of the Attorney General is to be reviewed, and the Attorney General has said she will not be the person who decides on the cash for honours potential prosecution, or indeed...
Blawg Review #115
Welcome to Nearly Legal. I'm delighted to be hosting Blawg Review for my first time and in the UK for the second time. What follows is the best of recent Law blog posts, as heavily filtered through the pre-occupations of an english, publicly-funded civil...
The World turned upside down?
Or just shiggled about a bit? From Lord Falconer and Goldsmith to Jack Straw and Baroness Scotland? Blimey. I suspect that Baroness Scotland shouldn't get too comfy. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Attorney General role was split shortly, with an...
Submit to me…
Nearly Legal is hosting Blawg Review #115, due out this coming Monday 2 July. The Blawg Review is a weekly travelling round up of the best of the recent blawg posts (or whatever has caught the eye of the host). Anybody who would like to recommed a blawg...
Regime Change
So farewell then, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Some achievements of this last government are not to be dismissed. For example: the Human Rights Act; the minimum wage; civil partnerships; the beginning of the SureStart programme; even tax credits (botched...