Perhaps it is the heat, perhaps it is just me, perhaps it is living in Britain in these credit-crunch times – but I have noticed that a number of really quite trivial and unimportant things irritate me. I do not get angry – I just get irritated. So… I thought I would start an ‘Irritation” [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Irritation…..
Posted in Charon on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 | 45 Comments »
Bar Council to harness the power of information super highway …thingy…
Posted in Charon on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 | 18 Comments »
On a day when The Lords ruled that the Serious Fraud Office acted lawfully in halting the investigation into BAe and nearly forty years after the invention of email (which pre-dated the invention of the internet), the Bar Council has decided to harness the power of the digitial information era to communicate with members. I [...]
30 July: Daily news and podcast
Posted in Charon on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
30 July: Daily news and podcast up on Insitelaw magazine Substantial update to Insitelaw in progress for completion today.
West London Man (19) : A short holiday in Padstow, Cornwall
Posted in Charon, Charon Podcasts, West London Man on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
West London Man (19): A short holiday in Padstow, Cornwall Produced: In West London Run Time: 5.37 minutes Music: I do love to be beside the seaside Wardrobe: Boden (left) The part of Caroline was played by Joanna Le Huquet. Charon took the parts of George and David Cameron Listen to the Audio version of [...]
Some say… that I nicked Cameron’s bike….
Posted in Charon on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The great Lancashire hot-plot, “For Idiocy” and other matters…
Posted in Charon on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The newspapers stagger like binge drinkers on a hot Friday night in Brighton – some, it has to be said, from the white stiletto high heeled shoes school of journalism - between feeding on pictures of politicians on holiday to the frenzy about whether Gordon Brown should or should not stand down / be sacked [...]
Available for “lingerie, glamour and topless” services..
Posted in Charon on Sunday, July 27, 2008 | 27 Comments »
I hasten to add… not me. There I was, this very afternoon just before 6.00, enjoying a glass of chilled Beaujolais and enjoying an exchange of nonsense with Infobunny on Twitter – when Infobunny sent me news of a CPS lawyer who is doing part-time work as a nude model. Full Telegraph Story Clifford Allison, [...]
26-27 July: Postcard from the Staterooms – In medias res…
Posted in Charon, Charon Podcasts, Weekend Review / Postcards on Sunday, July 27, 2008 | 16 Comments »
*** Audio version for those who have done enough reading – with music etc… *** I am not, of course, in Suffolk – but that is not to say that I would not enjoy being so. It has been a curious week: First we had the Wood Report on the reform of legal education for [...]
Podcast 76: Wood Report on BVC – City Law School response
Posted in Charon, Charon Podcasts on Saturday, July 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I am talking to Stuart Sime, Barrister and Director of the BVC at The City Law School (Inns of Court School of Law) about his view of The Wood Report. We discuss the content of the proposed Bar Professional Training Course and the way The City Law School approaches the training of bar students. [...]
Podcast 75: Carl Gardner on the Mosley judgment, privacy and exemplary damages
Posted in Charon, Charon Podcasts on Saturday, July 26, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Today I am talking to Carl Gardner, barrister and author of the Head of Legal blog, about the judgment of Mr Justice Eady in Mosley. We examine the developing law on privacy, exemplary damages and question whether the decision was in fact a ‘landmark’ decision in some aspect, including, as a side effect, the law [...]
Podcast 74: Scott Vine on legal information technology
Posted in Charon, Charon Podcasts on Saturday, July 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Today I am talking to Scott Vine, author of the Information Overlord blog, about illegal downloading and the growing use by lawyers of internet based information and communications technology. *** Listen to Podcast 74: Scott Vine on legal information technology
Britain’s unsung heroes – a medal is deserved
Posted in Charon on Friday, July 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
There are men and women in Britain who, each day, go about their business unrecognised by the media and their peer group – the unsung heroes of our land. It is time, as Barack Obama would say, for us to recognise their heroism in making Britain a more interesting place to live. I have instituted [...]
25 July: Daily news and podcast
Posted in Charon on Friday, July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Daily news and podcast now up on Insitelaw What bloggers are doing – updated.
Podcast 73: Stephen Mason, Barrister – Electronic signatures
Posted in Charon, Charon Podcasts on Thursday, July 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I am talking to Stephen Mason, barrister, author and expert on digital evidence – about electronic signatures. *** Listen to Podcast 73: Stephen Mason on electronic signatures *** Stephen Mason website | Stephen Mason televised course on electronic signatures for the CPD Channel (Apologies for minor sound interference in parts of the podcast – [...]
24 July: Daily news and podcast
Posted in Charon on Thursday, July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
24 July: Daily news and podcast up on Insitelaw magazine
Mackerel, Omega 23 and other mattters…
Posted in Charon on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Perhaps it was the image of Dawn Primarolo MP, Matron-in-Chief, in a newspaper today telling us that she is going to stop our world leading olympic medal winning binge drinkers from practising their craft – but I have decided that a bit of Omega 3 to supplement the beneficial effects of red wine is probably [...]
Podcast 72: The Wood Report on the changes to the BVC – College of Law response
Posted in Charon, Charon Podcasts on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today I am talking to Richard de Friend, director of the Bloomsbury centre of The College of Law. Richard has had a long and distinguished career in legal education as pro Vice Chancellor of Kent University and, in recent years, with the College of Law. The Wood report is – rather like a cornetto… soft [...]
Podcast 71: Wood Report – The proposed changes to the BVC
Posted in Charon, Charon Podcasts on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today I am talking to Jon McLeod, Chairman, Public Affairs – Weber Shandwick who acted for the Bar Standards Board in the recent report of the Working Group in relation to Review of The Bar Vocational Course. Jon McLeod went into public affairs in 1994, having spent six years in financial and legal journalism. His [...]
23 July: Daily news and podcast
Posted in Charon on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
23 July: Daily news and podcast up on Insitelaw magazine
Brutalisation of the human spirit by war?…
Posted in Charon on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Brutalisation of the human spirit by war? White Rabbit picks up on a story about an unarmed captive being shot by an Israeli soldier at point blank range – in the foot with a rubber bullet. Please note the comments on the blog post The original You Tube video disappeared recently – but there is [...]
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