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Who would have thought that restaurant reviews would turn out to be the vanguard of defamation law? Recent results from the High Court in Belfast and the High Court of New South Wales in Oz suggest a disturbing trend. In February, in Belfast, a jury found...
Via Lawyer-2-be (whose name has apparently been lifted by The Lawyer for its student site, alas), I discovered the gloriously named blog Belle de Jure. Apparently by an off-duty academic lawyer, it's off to an entertaining start. According to a recent post,...
Margaret Hodge has decided that this is a good time to say that too much Council housing is going to economic migrants at the expense of local residents. Allocation policies should be rethought to reward 'length of residence, citizenship and national...
Quite an interesting piece on Lawcareers net on 30+ entrants. The piece naturally holds up a couple of exceptions as examplars, while the individuals concerned rightly note the difficulties, but overall, if one discounts a certain amount of positivity, this...
To the DCA, now part of the thoroughly Orwellian overtoned, or is that Pétain-ist Ministry of Justice (at justice.gov.uk, no less). I don't, in principle, object to the partition of the Home Office, but that was worryingly quick. Either the assorted...
So noted in passing: Everybody's favourite still wet behind the ears barrister, Tom Brennan, has had the full day of argument on the validity of his claim and the matter has apparently been adjourned. Of course, the BBC don't tell us whether Mr Brennan was...
My jaw dropped at this post from Lo-fi librarian. You must see the post for lo-fi's screenshots. Also in the Times Online. Field Fisher Waterhouse have opened an office in Second Life. This is just wrong in so many ways. The media hype about 'real world'...
There are times, such as this, that the requirements of anonymity are a bit annoying. Much though I enjoy the dark powers conferred by my mask of mystery, being the Fantômas of housing law, it does mean that some things can't be posted about at the time or...
Not that I am at all obsessive about such things, at least not since I forced myself to keep checking down to once a month or so, but out of the allegedly 71 million blogs tracked by Technorati (surely less than half of which are active), Nearly Legal has...
As regular readers may recall, the limit for disrepair claims to fall into small claims was under review. Proposals were made to raise the current limit of £1000 to £5000. Regular readers will recall that I thought that this was a Bad Thing. According to the...
While Natwest is quite happy to have the threat of a bankrupting costs order hang over Tom Brennan (see below), it appears that the bank can come over all coy and confused about costs when it means settling a claim. According to this BBC story (via CharonQC...