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I'm not going to weigh in on the details of the case brought by newly qualified barrister Tom Brennan against Nat West, apparently adjourned for a full day's argument on the issue of whether aggravated and exemplary damages are even available, prior to the...
My blog is worth $22,581.60. How much is your blog worth? That should see me through about six months as a trainee. £12K! For my erudesence? Pah. I'm cheap but not that cheap. [Thanks to Tim Kevan of The Barrister Blog]
Thanks to the always interesting Lo-fi librarian, I have discovered that DirectgovKids has solved the concerns of both Pupilblog and Lawyer-2-be. Click for bigger.
I knew I was tempting fate. I made a comment yesterday on Pupilblogger's post on litigants-in-person. Today came the swift nemesis to my hubris. A day full of new enquries fom what turned out to be l-i-ps. Not that they tell you that at first. Oh no. First...
I read Lawyer-2-be's comments on diversity and age in relation to entry to the Bar with interest. As regular visitors will know, the problems of mature entrants to the legal profession is something of a (self-interested) hobbyhorse of mine. Pleasing though...
As we await the Law Society's decision on whether to challenge the new legal aid contracts - apparently due this week, as it must be, given that the contracts have to be signed by 30 March - there are interesting mutterings that some civil legal aid sectors...
There is plenty of material that I ought to be writing about, but I'm going to have to pull a Pupilblogger, because I can't talk about it now. So, in the place of anything substantial, interesting or even legal, it is time once more to gaze in awe and...
With all due respect to the striking legal aid Criminal solicitors and the Law Society, this is an impressive bunch of protesting lawyers. A reminder that the struggle between the rule of law and rule by decree is sometimes literally that. I do find myself...
Not that there isn't a valid discussion to be had, but did the Law Society's Fiona Woolf really have to announce that the Law Society is looking to encourage a discussion about flexible working and job satisfaction in these words? And so, given its...
In retrospect, yesterday might not have been the best day to have been posting about briefless barristers.
Binary Law doesn't like the Times Online redesign. Good. I loathe it. From intrusive, slow, floating ads (even in Firefox), to an utterly overloaded ad-and-submenu-and-splashspot-laden page, it is dreadful. It makes the Grauniad look like something set out...
the centre cannot hold. Not a good week, all in all. When the legal highlight of the week is some scurrilous story about the DPP and the Criminal Bar Association spokesperson enjoying illict souvlaki together, then we are in trouble. Although two details...