Normal service resume tomorrow?….

Despite coming up with a brainwave to buy BTOpenzone credits to use hotspots – I found one right at the top of the boat – after paying the money to BT when a full signal was received… somewhat mysteriously there signal disappeared soon after.  It may come back! So… no posting – going for a [...]

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Internet problem…

Minor hassle – my internet connection dongle does not seem to work – I shall therefore have to post, for the time being, using an internet cafe nearby…. I shall do so later today, hopefully

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The spy society…. or WTF are our Police actually employed to do?

So…. the plan now is to give a whole raft of officials powers to give out fines and marshall us into some Beijing Olympic cadre style of civil obedience and responsibility. The Evening Standard reported today that Town Hall staff are to be given power to hand out fines.  This is a rather worrying plan [...]

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And just a little bit more Family Law….

Do your own divorce?…. If you want a divorce (or are involved in a divorce) but you are neither eligible for legal aid nor able to afford to instruct a solicitor, what do you do?  Well – buy John Bolch’s excellent book on “Do Your Own Divorce” which he is promoting on his Family Lore [...]

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Surprised?….

The harbingers of doom gather as the credit-crunch brings into focus the rising/falling fortunes of lawyers and law firms. There does seem to be a spate of articles appearing contrasting the fabulous earnings of some lawyers, yet hinting at dark times to come. Perhaps, as the season changes from summer to the early suggestion of [...]

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25 August: Postcard from The Boat (2)

Is Gordon Brown Bonkers? – is the buzz going around Westminster according to Guido Fawkes.  I’ll leave you to investigate further should you wish to do so – but I will take one quote from the Guido post.: “When Kay Burley asked him this week would he still have the PM’s job at Christmas his [...]

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24 August: Postcard from The Boat (1)

So… it is Sunday on a Bank holiday weekend. The Notting Hill carnival is underway… reggae reggae sauce, courtesy of The Dragon’s Den, Red Stripe, curried goat,  whistles, floats, exotic outfits, dancing policemen – a national treasure I shall not be attending, having been to five over the past fifteen years. Instead, I find myself [...]

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Family Law

Kelvin Mackenzie in The Sun has an amusing story about chef Marco Pierre White.  Apparently Marco Pierre White, in the throes of divorcing his wife, has taken to watching their wedding video – in reverse. He likes to see his wife take off the ring, leave the church, get into the car and disappear. I [...]

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To medal or not to medal?….

The BBC appears to have been caught up in a frenzy of using nouns as verbs. The latest noun to be turned into a verb is ‘medal’. “Will people stop using the word ‘medal’ as a verb? It’s extremely annoying.” Anon via text on 81111 followed by… 1158: Will Victoria Pendleton medal in the final [...]

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A bit of law…

Having already downed a few power drinks, she turned around, faced him, looked him straight in the eye and said, ‘Listen up, Buddy. I screw anybody, any time, anywhere, your place, my place, in the car, front door, back door, on the ground, standing up, sitting down, naked or with clothes on, dirty, clean . [...]

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16-17 August: Postcard from The Boat

I write to you this week, not from the Elysian fields of West London, but from a houseboat on The Thames in Chelsea.  The tide is coming in as I write, the boat is rocking gently and I have a bottle of Rioja to my right and cigarettes to my left. While I have left [...]

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Moving today

Moving from West London – will stay in London for a week or so to look outside London.  May be offlibe for 2-3 days, depending on wifi access and time.

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The unfairness of the pupillage process

The unfairness of the pupillage process A very thoughtful and incisive article by the bloggers from Reductio ad absurdum Read Reductio ad absurdum

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Maestro!….

For one hour and a half I watched, transfixed, as eight celebrities learned the basics of conducting the BBC orchestra for Maestro, produced by BBC 2. I enjoy classical music  – but tonight’s programmme had everything… music, drama, humour and competition.  Peter Snow, Alex James, Sue Perkin, Jane Asher and the truly astonishing ‘natural conductor’ [...]

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Plus ca change!…

Found this on Guido Fawkes…

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Clifford Chance ramps up savings by offshoring paralegals to India

The Lawyer joins the turning nouns into verbs craze with the headline: ” Clifford Chance ramps up savings by offshoring paralegals to India” and at the same time supports the Indian economy.  The Lawyer reports: “Clifford Chance and Eversheds are considering reducing low-end work ­normally undertaken by trainees and paralegals and farming it out to [...]

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The fascinating world of legal practice as reported in the legal press

Passing an amusing fifteen minutes at lunch on Fritter, which is probably a better name than Twitter, given the amount of time I seem to spend on Twitter late at night, I came across the ‘Tweet’ to the left – an utterly unfascinating piece of information in terms of my needs – but, I presume, [...]

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Judge calls prosecutor illiterate idiot.

The BBC, with one of the few reporters not in Beijing, reports that “An angry judge has branded a prosecution worker an “illiterate idiot” after spotting several spelling mistakes in an indictment. Judge David Paget was reading a list of charges drawn up by Crown Prosecution Service staff at Wood Green Crown Court in north [...]

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12th August: Daily legal news and podcast

12th August: Daily legal news up on Insitelaw: Plenty of news today, including a bizarre story from the Sun about a man who bit off his girlfriend’s nose and carried on drinking.

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An amusing take on Twitter

I am grateful to fellow Twitterer, Dominic Campbell and one of the Twitterers he follows for drawing attention to a very amusing (if in mildly bad taste) parody on twitter – when it goes down.  Twitter does have a tendency to go down from time to time. Hitler is not amused at having no Twitter.

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