Jaws and Sunday surreality…

The news today (The Sun) that a great white shark has been filmed 200 yards off the Cornwall coast may just be the final straw for beleagured Britain after the great floods. Curiously, the original Jaws film was on TV last night.
The Sun reports: Tourist Nick Martell, 57, from Newcastle upon Tyne, said [...]

A bit of burglary….

Shortly after 5.30 on Saturday evening, I climbed a ladder and ‘broke’ into my house through a first floor window - the only front facing window not locked. I could have kicked the front door in, broken a window, or behaved rationally and arranged for a locksmith to gain entry for me.
I had [...]

Charon diagnosed with “Irrationalis loca donaldsonia’…

Announcement by Eva Braun on behalf of Charon QC

After a week of worrying about the Cash for Honours decision and visiting various law blogs, and as a direct and causal result thereof, Charon has been absent from his blawg after a bout of a rather curious illness: Irrationalis Loca Donaldsonia.
Charon has responded well [...]

Normal service resumed Part 1…

So… after my sweated labour at 3.00 am this morning, actually attempting to write something sensible (infra), I return to more pleasurable pursuits and mark my return to normal service with…
US Judge does a master class in judicial disdain
Hat Tip to Rollonfriday News for covering the story inspiring me on to more detailed [...]

Be you ever so high… no-one is above the law…

Cash for Honours…
I woke at 3.00 am to find a very clear statement by the CPS on the matter of the “Cash for Honours” case waiting for me in my in-box. That the CPS has taken the step to issue a clear statement on this matter is testament to the interest which the [...]

Friday cocktail…

I have absolutely no idea why a current Home Secretary and a fair proportion of the current Cabinet (according to the newspaper of record, The Evening Standard, on Thursday 18th July) have decided to admit to smoking cannabis when they were younger.
I can only surmise that the Brown government has decided [...]

A ‘must read’ for Facebook users…

Martin George has a very useful post “Facebook, Oxford and Privacy” on his blog. Fascinating stuff - definitely a must read if you are on Facebook. A tale of dark deeds by Oxford dons against Oxford students and other matters…
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See also: Alex from IMPACT on his take on all this
See also: Lilian Edwards, [...]

A few good reads…

Not a great deal to report on the blawgs this week. Perhaps it is the floods and plague of frogs?, the prospect of Boris Johnson running for Mayor?, worry about the expulsion of russian diplomats?
But, nevertheless, there are a few good reads. Others have covered this, and I give their links [...]

Podcast 24: Alex Aldridge… Student Law Times journo… and his quest for pupillage…

Podcast 24: Today I am talking to Alex Aldridge, an english literature graduate from Edinburgh University, who went on to qualify as a barrister at the Inns of Court School of Law after completing a GDL conversion course at The College of Law in York.
Alex writes a fortnightly column for the Student Law section of [...]

Charon is in the Diary Room…

1.15 pm
Charon is in the Diary Room smoking and discussing The Human Rights Act. Big Brother has reminded Charon that it is illegal to smoke in an enclosed public place. Charon asked Big Brother for a lawyer.
1.30 pm
Big Brother has granted Charon’s request and a lawyer has arrived at the House, escorted by [...]

Barrister flouts parking rules..

This is not a barrister deliberately flouting the road traffic legislation or riding en route to the Court of Appeal to ask the judges to rule in his favour after his failed application to injunct Islington Council.
The Times reports… “A barrister claimed yesterday that his motorcycle is immune to parking tickets because its wheels do [...]

Off with his wig…

It will happen….
Non smokers will enjoy this short film
And so wigs in civil cases are to go… 
Lord Philips has announced that wigs are to be abolished in civil cases and announces a new line in courtwear. Ruthie’s Law covers the story.
 The Times celebrates 30 years of the Employment Appeal Tribunal with a trawl through [...]

Thinking about a career at the bar?…

If you are thinking about a career at the Bar - then please read this interesting post by Simon Myerson QC.
(There aren’t that many real Silks blogging (Charon is, of course, a creature of imagination) and The Pupillage and how to get it blog is a useful resource, imparting solid, sensible and practical advice [...]

The Charon Years…

July 10th 2007
I have no idea who chose this cover for my new book, but I look like a steward on a British Airways flight.
June 27th 2007
My agent called to say that it would be safe to publish my Diary. TB had finally gone, or “F****d off”, as he put it. I [...]

Bring me my chariot of fire… Blawg Review 116 arriva!…

Corporate Blawg’s hosting of Blawg Review 116 is in the building…
“The English Blawg is quite a peculiar fish
Each day is served a slightly different dish”
This is but a very short extract from a Shakespearian drama….
CB… introduces the UK Blawgs with doggerel I am pleased, having awarded myself Silk (at a time when the LC suspended [...]

I felt like the Pharaoh Akhenaten…

It was shortly after 7.00 this morning. I was seated, as usual, outside The Hothouse Cafe reading the Sunday papers. Suddenly, a shaft of bright light flooded down through the cloud. I saw the Aten, a disc of fiery light in the sky - the rays bathing Chiswick High Street in [...]

Picking noses… flags and Kennedy caught smoking…

I’ve learnt so much from my previous mistakes… I think I’ll make another.
Tonight, apart from drawing attention to Gordon Brown’s remarkable nasal excavations (posted earlier), I have decided to have a politics free blog post.
Apart, that is, from stating that I rather like the new edict that all government buildings fly the Union [...]

The bogeyman is coming to get you…

The inimitable Guido Fawkes has an extraordinary film for you. Brown digs deep on this one. See the film. Won’t take long. Delicious ?
I’ll be doing a fairly long post later this evening / early tomorrow…. in the meantime… see our PM in action. Priceless. It is not known [...]

Nail fungus…

I accept that this is not the most cerebral post I have made… but I have just seen an advert on British television for “Curanail” - a “New treatment for nail fungus Now available without prescription”
I just wondered how many people in Britain suffer from nail fungus… to justify an expensive Tv advert.
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Have fixed the [...]

Servant of the people…

I took a few minutes out this afternoon to listen to Gordon Brown tell parliament that he has a few proposals to make the government a ‘better servant of the people’. The metaphor is rather dull. I am not entirely sure that I want a British government to be a ’servant’ - but let [...]