Podcast 97: Ella Shaw, pupil at 4 Brick Court, London on her experience of Family Law pupillage

Podcast 97: Ella Shaw, pupil at 4 Brick Court, London on her experience of Family Law pupillage Today I am talking to Ella Shaw a pupil barrister with Jacqui Gilliatt, a well known member of the Bar  at 4 Brick Court, a leading Family Law set.  We are going to talk about what she has [...]

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Postcard from a London Bus 7th February: Pro-God buses for London streets

You may have seen the press reports about  Richard Dawkins and the atheist bus advert “There probably is no God: so stop worrying and enjoy your life”  The BBC reports that these adverts prompted complaints from the group Christian Voice and from individuals. The BBC report continues…. ‘Spurred on’  Three separate pro-God advert campaigns on [...]

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Podcast 96: Alexander Learmonth, Chairman, Young Barristers Committee of The Bar Council

Today I am talking to Alexander Learmonth, Chairman of The Young Barristers Committee of the Bar Council. Called in 2000, Alex is a member of NewSquare Chambers. I talk to Alex about the realities facing  young members of the bar and his advice for students contemplating a career at the bar or who are doing [...]

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A bit of Friday nonsense….

While I am delighted for those who believe in what to me is frankly unbelievable, I found Tony Blair’s statement on Faith and Faiths when he met Obamassiah (ahead of Gordon Brown)… when most of the world’s political nutters seem to speak directly to some form of god or say they are doing some god’s [...]

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6th February: News up and Jeremy Clarkson starts state visit to Australia…

Daily news update and news podcast up on Insite Law. Well… it is unlikely to be *Sir* Jeremy Clarkson at any time in the near future after Clarkson began his State Visit to Australia by slagging off the Prime Mentalist, Gordon Brown.  Clarkson, a national treasure who drives fast cars like a hooligan on too [...]

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5th February: News up on Insite and the #legalitshow tag!…

Daily legal news, blog update and news podcast up on Insite Law. A raft fascinating legal news and excellent posts from UK bloggers is noted / linked to on Insite Law today. Remember to sign up to the weekly newswire if you would like an email summary of the week’s news / blog posts, law [...]

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British Government diagnosed with PAS – Political Asperger Syndrome…

I have just been at The Institute of Political Psychiatry in London listening to a most interesting paper. I wasn’t able to tweet the entire conference but I was able to record Professor Strangelove’s extraordinary statement on my mobile phone. Statement from Dr Strangelove MB, CH, FRCP, FRSA Emeritus Professor,  Institite of Political Psychiatry, London [...]

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4th February: Daily legal news and podcast

Daily legal news, UK blog update and news podcast now up on Insite Law If you would like to receive my weekly email newsletter on the news events , law reports and key blog posts of the week (Published on Saturdays) – please sign up. The first issue, to give you an idea of what [...]

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All go in the real and unreal world….

Now that Britain is returning, slowly, to some semblance of normality after the marvellous snow storm yesterday two news items caught my attention: Guido Fawkes reports on his blog: Met Police Have Received MP’s Complaint Re Gordon Brown’s Leaks from 1985 “Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has, Guido understands, had in his in-tray since early December [...]

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Geeklawyer is going to Canada… Mon dieu!

Geeklawyer is going to Canada. May god have mercy on their souls. *** Watch the movie *** Geeklawyer’s  blog post about why he missed his plane yesterday

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3rd February: Daily Legal news and podcast on Insite law

Daily Legal news and podcast up on Insite Law *** Future Use of Counsel’s Opinion by Solicitors in Other Cases 30 January 2009 The Bar Council has been informed of the following situation. A barrister has received instructions from a firm of solicitors which state at the end of the instructions that it is the [...]

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Charon reports on Snow Crisis Britain….

Last night, as Britain braced itself to come to a complete and grinding halt today, I was able to cover the action LIVE on Twitter… these are the tweets as they happened.  I had, it has to be said, ignored the advice of HM Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Busybody and was at the juice [...]

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2nd February: Daily news up on Insite Law… snow report to follow

Daily legal news and podcast up on Insite Law 1. I have replaced the Pageflakes pages for News, blogs, law reports as Pageflakes appears to have disappeared. I shall replace the US, Canada, Australia and other jurisdiction Pageflake pages with Netvibe page shortly. Have a look at the new Netvibe RSS feed pages – a [...]

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Podcast 95: Podcast 95: Law Girl’s quest for pupillage and a career at The Bar

Today I am talking to a prospective barrister who blogs under the name LAWGIRL. She has completed her undergraduate degree, has an LLM and is currently doing an MA in legal & political theory. She is due to do the Bar Vocational Course in September at the Inns of Court School of Law and is, [...]

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1st February – Postcard from London (2): Lords a Leaping… the continuing saga….

I was chatting to John Bolch, Family Lore, earlier in the day as he embarks on his new career as a podcaster in matters of Family Law – and he told me that one of the reasons why he voted Labour all those years ago, when Tony Blair descended from heaven to lead us, was [...]

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1st February: Postcard from London (1)

So… here we are on 1st February… Obama installed in The White House, The Prime Mentalist yet to have his first Obamagasm, the financial world crumbling about our ears…. and our non-elected Peers are dipping their snouts in whatever troughs they can find – apparently and allegedly. The News of The World continues the fun [...]

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