Lawcast 109: The Jack Straw veto on FOI disclosure of Cabinet Minutes relating to the decision to go to war with Iraq

Today I am talking to Carl Gardner, barrister, ex government lawyer and author of the Head of Legal blog about Jack Straw’s use of the veto under s.53 Freedom of Information Act 2000 Listen to the report with Carl Gardner | Version for iTunes

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Greed is good?

Legal Week reports that three London law schools are raising their tuition fees The Legal Week article states: “Three of London’s law schools have considerably increased their Legal Practice Course (LPC), despite the widespread cost-cutting measures currently being implemented across the profession. BPP Law School has hiked annual fees for its London LPC students by more than 9% to [...]

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27th February: Daily law news and news podcast up on Insite Law

27th February: Daily law news and news podcast up on Insite Law – and it is a big update on the UK blawgs section. See also the Insite Law Blog – where all the news items, podcasts, and UK blog posts featured on Insite Law each week are archived.  The value of the Insite Law [...]

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Blawg Review: An Institution reaches 200th edition….

Blawg Review, set up by the anonymous and mysterious Ed is an institution, a carnival of law bloggers with a different blawger hosting it each week.  This week Ed celebrated the 200th edition and wondered if the end was nigh?  I can’t see the death of Blawg Review imminent or otherwise.  It is a wonderful [...]

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Love is in the lair?….

Ageing middle aged roue, lawyer, blogger and professional Rioja drinker seeks attractive, amusing woman who does not spend her leisure hours reading Rayden on Divorce or stripping newsagent shelves of Bride Monthly.  Tax and Trust lawyers or those with off-shore expertise need not apply. Smokers encouraged and drinking is compulsory. Despite the fact that I [...]

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Coming soon… lawcast with Steve Hynes, Director of LAG…

I am doing a podcast soon with Steve Hynes, Director of The Legal Action Group (LAG) as part of my current series of podcasts on civil liberties and human rights.  We plan to focus on Legal Aid (or the lack of it) in civil cases and access to justice issues.  LAG has a book on [...]

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25th February: Daily law news and news podcast

25th February: Daily law news and news podcast up on Insite Law

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Lawcast 108: Michael Burdett – Unbalancing the Scales of Justice

Lawcast 108: Michael Burdett Today I am talking to Michael Burdett, a solicitor and consultant with HCL Hanne & Co in London. He is a past-president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association and founder committee member of the Criminal Law Solicitors Association. In last week’s Law Society Gazette, Michael Burdett wrote an article entitled [...]

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24th February: Daily legal news and podcast up on Insite Law

24th February: Daily legal news and podcast up on Insite Law Round up: Lawcast 106: Roger Smith, Director of Justice, on the erosion of civil liberties. Lawcast 107: Peter Crisp, CEO of BPP, on the new LPC and legal education. Lawcast.net: A new website dedicated to podcasts.  If you are a law podcaster and wish [...]

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Charon interviews H M The Queen about Government and cricket

It has been some time since I had The Queen over to Charon TV. Tonight she talks turkey about government and then talks about the cricket, Slumdog Millionaire and Sir Allen Stanford, the Texan Billionaire. Watch the movie

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Lawcast 107: Peter Crisp. CEO of BPP Law School on the LPC and legal education

Lawcast 107: Peter Crisp, Dean and CEO of BPP Law School on the LPC and legal education today. Today I am talking to Peter Crisp, Dean and Chief Executive of BPP Law School and Alison Wells, Director of the LPC programme, about BPP’s new LPC plans and the state of legal education in these recessionary [...]

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Lawcast 106: Roger Smith, Director of Justice, on civil liberties and human rights.

Lawcast 106: Roger Smith, Director of Justice, on civil liberties and human rights. Today I am talking to Roger Smith OBE a solicitor who has been director of JUSTICE since November 2001. He has been director of legal education and training at the Law Society; director of the Legal Action Group; solicitor to the Child [...]

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23rd February: Daily Legal News up on Insite Law

23rd February: Daily Legal News up on Insite Law – large news update and addition of a new Ministry of Justice news section on Insite. The latest issue of The Insite Weekly Newswire is up on Insite Law (If you would like your copy to be emailed to you weekly, please sign up – top [...]

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Letter from London: 22 February 2009

I began my day early this morning, well before the sun was up and, as is often the case, went on to Twitter after clearing the work side of my life. My first post on Twitter came as dawn was breaking.  It read: “Bonjour…another day begins in London… not many people about. All is quiet. [...]

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Lawcasts: A new website for law podcasts

I have set up a new specialist website for Law podcasts – LAWCAST.Net – for my Charon podcasts and podcasts on legal subjects from the Uk and around the world.  If you produce podcasts and would like to be included (FREE)  in this podcast specific website – please email me

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West London Man 25: The La Guardia Archipelago

West London Man 25: The La Guardia Archipelago Following his arrest at La Guardia Airport  in New York City (Episode 24), George has been relieved  of the diamonds and jewellery he received from financier Bernard Madoff and is now a guest of the American authorities in a nearby detention center. As an Englishman with refined [...]

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Newswire #4 22nd February 2009

Insite Law Free Newswire #4 22nd February 2009 now up on Insite Law *** Please sign up if you would like to receive the free weekly Insite Law Newswire each week by email.

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Podcast 105: Ronald J Baker on Value Pricing, Value Billing and The Billable Hour

Today I am talking to Ronald J. Baker who started  his accounting career in 1984 with KPMG Peat Marwick’s Private Business Advisory Services in San Francisco. Today, he is the founder of VeraSage Institute, a think tank dedicated to teaching Value Pricing to professionals around the world Listen to the podcast with Ron Baker *** [...]

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Podcast 104: Ian Parker-Joseph, Leader, UK Libertarian Party

Podcast 104: With Ian Parker-Joseph, Leader of The UK Libertarian Party Today I am talking to Ian Parker-Joseph MD of Parker-Joseph Consulting, crisis management, and elected NCC member of the Libertarian Party, UK which he now leads. Listen to the podcast with Ian Parker-Joseph *** Podcast version for iTunes *** References: Ian Parker-Joseph Journal/Blog UK [...]

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Binge drinking is part of our national Zeitgeist

I am grateful to fellow blogger and Twitterer Diane Levin of The Mediation Channel in the US for drawing my attention to a seminal article about the work of academic  Binge drinking mavens at Teeside University – a seat of learning in the North of England.  (Overseas readers and Londoners may find this geographical referencing [...]

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