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For some of us internet old timers, who were on usenet before the WWW existed and were hand coding websites in the mid 1990s, it is still a surprise how people treat search engines as something to put a fully fledged question into. January has been a bumper...
And we thought the sound and fury over whether bench, bar and solicitor-advocates wear or don't wear wigs was bad. From the land of more relaxed court-wear comes a debate over whether a cravat (or an Ascot, depending) is appropriate for an advocate or rather...
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...
A quick outline of a busy news day... The 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,...
[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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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,...
This has nothing to do with law, but sometimes a personal howl of frustration must be let loose. The topic is crappy internet service providers. To be specific, Pipex Internet. I am a Pipex subscriber, although not for very much longer. I have been for...
In one of the least surprising outcomes of a CPS consideration of merits of prosecution since, oh let's say the cash for honours flasco, 'Klara and Edda bellydancing' has been decided to be 'not indecent'. So, a photo previously 'investigated' for indecency...
Right then, Harouki v Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea [2007] EWCA Civ 1000. The scene in a nutshell. A statutorily overcrowded household, in terms of Part 10 of the Housing Act 1985, s.326, which gives rise to a criminal offence under s.327 A homeless...