Diversity in law firms… excellent idea!

I do not spend my time scouring the DCA website looking for speeches to read (well, not that often) but I could not resist reading a speech by Bridget Prentice MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitituional Affairs. You may read her speech in full here.

After an auspicious start where she thanked The Lawyer for [...]

Fox hunting… a test case

Imagine a situation… I go for a walk (that, in itself requires imagination) and find a fox being hunted by men stalking behind a tank - flushing the fox out to be shot at by the tank. Would this be lawful - assuming that appropriate permits were obtained for a tank to be on private [...]

So… how much evidence do you need?

So..in front of a judge, solicitors, barristers, prison officers, police and assorted court personnel, a burglar escapes from court and goes on the run. Unfortunately, because no-one took witness statements for this ‘extraordinary rendition by the burglar of himself’ - the burglar escaped conviction for escaping because of lack of evidence.
The Mirror reports: “Derbyshire Crown [...]