Navel gazing (or meta blogging) on the future of the law blog seems to be the flavour of the moment in the USA, and on this side of the pond, human law and binary law have weighed in with some thoughtful views on the future of law blogs. With this in mind,...
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...
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...
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...
And a happy christmas to me.
Unlike Charon QC or even Geeklawyer, I have been away doing the christmas necessaries, and actually very pleasant they were too. On my return today, I find that to my surprise and delight, I have received a Blawg Review Award for 2006. Hurrah and indeed...
We're not in Kensal Rise anymore, Toto.
With thanks to Charon QC for the link, an utterly unseasonal opportunity for schadenfreude (assuming it is genuine) is here, courtesy of Liadnan. Normally, those of us in legal aid housing law can be expected to be sympathetic to tales of sudden homelessness...
Botox and peel.
I have had a bit of a re-design. I think the look is better and hopefully easier to use. It took me a bit further into the bowels of Wordpress than I was planning, but it seems to be running fairly well. Any problems, please let me know.
Irony in passing.
I know I shouldn't, but working on the litigator's instinct of putting the boot in, here is a quote from the 'CEO' of Netrank, taken from this Guardian article: John Straw, chief executive of online brand positioning company Netrank, says it advises its...
A dialogue (of sorts) with Netrank.
I have an email from Ellie Precious. On the plus side, that is a response within 36 hours of my original post. Not bad as a damage limitation reaction time. On the minus side, it was an email, not posted as a response to the post, which shows a continued...
Eleanor Precious doesn't really like me.
Today I got an email from Eleanor (or Ellie) Precious, which enclosed a press release on a survey of law firms' views on the likely effects of Age Discrimination law on their firms. I'm not going to link to it here, for reasons that will become obvious, but...
Sometimes I’m not a nice person.
Nobody sets aside my default judgements. Oh and costs as well? Thank you. If you ever imagine Nearly Legal as a person, then imagine that homunculous dancing a little dance of triumphant joy, whilst repeatedly slapping the humiliated opponent with an...
What did you say?
I've been to Court a few times over the last week or two, including a several day trial (on which more another time, as there were interesting arguments involved). Across these hearings, there have been some significant concerns raised over witness...