I regret to inform you that my blawg has been blocked by the Chinese authorities. It may be that the Chinese authorities do not care for human rights, rioja, excessive smoking and references to scandal – cash for honours, gigolo lawyers, senior lawyers having affairs etc etc. It is, of course, possible that my taste in UK blogs (as evidenced in my blogroll) does not meet with the approval of 中华人民共和国主席@greatfirewallofchina.
This is a great honour… and I am pleased to be in the UK, a relatively free (if ponderously overgoverned) country, to hear the news of this award.
If you would like to see if your own blog is blocked…. you may do so here
UPDATE….
I cannot believe it… just tested Geeklawyer’s blog…. The Chinese are still allowed to view it (Friday 2 March). Clearly he has been handing over the proceeds of his Google ads to keep his blog open in China… I am astonished! I am phoning China now…
UPDATE Friday 23.02 pm – The following blogs are blocked: Legal Scribbles / Dan Hull: What About Clients?
The Bar Council website is NOT blocked. Mind you…. getting a pupillage, let alone a tenancy, is going to be quite tricky if anyone from China does actually log on to the Bar Council website and do the BVC (Have you seen the law school fees?)
Apologies if I have not mentioned your blog… It is Friday night… and I have absolutely no idea why I am following up on Martin’s suggestion (See Comments) that I should commission a survey to see which UK blogs (and overseas blogs) are banned. I really do have to move on on this one…
UPDATE 23.19 pm
Lord Justice Richards
I am not entirely sure why my blogstats should indicate that 63 people reached my blog tonight after searching for Lord Justice Richards / Flashing judge etc etc…. It cannot be anything to do with China? Can it? I did report on this matter after reading The News of The World report
Mystery solved: Apparently Lord Justice Richards has been charged by the CPS – Martin reports in the Comments section. The BBC report seems to have been removed. Tomorrow will, no doubt, reveal the news on this latter matter.
Don’t feel too bad, Charon, legalscribbles.com is blocked too. Perhaps you should commission a survey of which UK blawgs are blocked, in order to identify a trend!
Martin…. you also run a website on ‘Conflict of laws’… Are you surprised?
Well, putting http://www.conflictoflaws.net into the great firewall site seems to make it crash at my end, so there must be something going on.
As for Richards LJ, the BBC news website reported a couple of hours ago that he had ben charged by the CPS. So it’s bound to be a prevalent search term tonight/tomorrow. The story on the BBC site has, however, apparently been removed. In any event, enough people saw it to start Googling…
That should be “has been”, not “had ben”. That’s an entirely different allegation…
Martin: Thank you… I do my best to keep up with the news… but, tonight, I have had a couple of glasses with friends … Wifi is useful… Thanks for the info.!
‘had ben’…. a very different allegation… typos can be difficult…. I have made a few of those in my time.
I am now off to read about politics….
I still can’t see it on the BBC site, but here’s the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2025788,00.html
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