Had enough of the Credit-Crunch? This is an edition of Blawg Review for those who say… “When the Credit-Crunch gets tough… the Credit-Crunched get crunched with SMOKEDO… and blog.” It is not X rated, it is office safe; the Geeklawyer fearing need not fear… but, to modify a phrase from a friend and colleague of [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Blawg Review #214
Posted in Blawg Review #214, Charon on Sunday, May 31, 2009 | 20 Comments »
No Postcard this week….. but Blawg Review #214 is coming soon.
Posted in Charon on Sunday, May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
No Postcard this week….. but Blawg Review #214 is coming soon…. at midnight London Time…because this is a British edition of Blawg Review and I work to London time…. if I am sober….
Barbecue man returns… argghhhhh….
Posted in Charon on Saturday, May 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So with the predictability of “Phew Wot a Scorcha” on the year’s hottest day being the headline in The Sun – today, as the sun shone, Britain’s men went down to B&Q, Homebase or their local garage forecourt, like stampeding Wildebeest, to purchase a device that would allow them to run their own private [...]
Lawcast 137: Gawain Towler, prospective UKIP candidate in the Euro elections
Posted in Charon, Charon Podcasts on Saturday, May 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Lawcast 137: Gawain Towler, prospective UKIP candidate in the Euro elections Today, as part of a new series of political podcasts for the Wardman Wire, I am talking to Gawain Towler, the prospective UKIP candidate for the South West in the forthcoming election. We discuss UKIP policies on Euirope, the alternative to membership of the [...]
Your head may fall off…
Posted in Charon, Charon's Noble Rot Wine Reviews on Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Normally I steer clear of the heavier alcohol content wines but the other evening, doing my duty for my country and my new ‘career’ as a wine reviewer, I found myself working at my laptop and a bottle of Spier ‘Private Collection’ Stellenbosch Shiraz, 2005 from South Africa happened to be open on my right. [...]
Coming soon.. 1st June…Blawg Review #214
Posted in Charon, Charon after a glass Pics on Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
On Monday 1st June I am hosting Blawg Review… it will be #214 in an unbroken record of Blawg Reviews going back over four years. I enjoy reading Blawg Reviews – my blawg review is an anaconda of a review… it is now just over 22ft long….. I write most of it when I am [...]
Insite Law: 28th May – news, reports and comment up…
Posted in Charon on Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Editor pick of the day 28th May 2009 A reality check Legal Week reports that the top 10 law firms are stepping up alternative billing on client concerns with the emotive headline “UK elite bow to clients with plans for rate freeze “ The reality of markets is that prices fluctuate according to supply and [...]
Where the F**k is Donald going to sleep?
Posted in Charon on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The graphics tablet I purchased t’other day continues to provide me with yet more opportunities to waste industrial amounts of time… but as I have now got bored with the drip feed of revelations by The Telegraph (unless something truly spectacular comes up on this front) I end my coverage of MP expenses with the [...]
Claim expenses for getting advice on expenses and tax liability… way to go……. brilliant!
Posted in Charon on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Fairly busy writing Blawg Review #214 for Monday 1st June… It may be that I have lost the plot because it appears to be over 12 feet long already… an anaconda of a Blawg Review… well there we are, but at least it is comprehensive …I even manage to get @Geeklawyer in despite the fact [...]
CQC-artoon… 26 May…
Posted in Charon on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
26th May: News, law reports, latest from the blogs – up on Insite Law
Posted in Charon on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
26th May: News, law reports, latest from the blogs – up on Insite Law
Blawg Review #213
Posted in Charon on Monday, May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blawg Review #213 – Towel edition… is up at Cyber Law Central – it is fun and you also get to see quite a few well known bloggers from the States, including the mysterious ED of Blawg Review (and bloggers from other parts of the universe) – go and take a look… but, you’ll need [...]
In the beginning… man created God…
Posted in Charon, Charon after a glass Pics on Sunday, May 24, 2009 | 11 Comments »
24th May: Postcard from Belmarsh
Posted in Charon on Sunday, May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I write to you this Bank Holiday weekend from HMP Belmarsh where I have been on a private fact finding mission to see if they have enough places to accommodate delinquent MPs who have overdone the expenses bit. Thankfully, because of Jack ”The Lad Chancellor’ Straw’s obsession with banging people up we do appear to [...]
Blawg Review 1 June
Posted in Charon on Saturday, May 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As the slot was still available – I am pleased to report that Ed of Blawg Review has allowed me to host Blawg Review on 1st June. As it happens, many interesting things happened on the 1st June in history including, would you believe, in 1812, a US president asked Congress for approval to declare [...]
Towel Day in memory of Douglas Adams
Posted in Charon on Friday, May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is Towel Day on Monday 25th in memory of Douglas Adams and his timeless classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I met him briefly in the early eighties – his wife, Jane, was a good friend of mine – a barrister and a very good law teacher. So… I have no difficulty at all [...]
22nd May: Insite Law news up
Posted in Charon on Friday, May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
News, law reports and comment up on Insite Law. I am particularly interested in hearing from practitioners, academics and students on the issues raised in Two Tribes go to War below. Please add your thoughts if you have time / inclination.
When two tribes go to war…
Posted in Charon on Thursday, May 21, 2009 | 27 Comments »
The legal profession as a whole faces competition from the so-called Tesco Law providers; but closer to home, and very much an issue of the present, is the ‘war’ going on between the two main branches of the legal profession – The Bar and Solicitor-advocates. First, it was Judge Gledhill expressing robust disapproval (at an [...]
He’s Ducked!…
Posted in Charon, Charon after a glass Pics on Thursday, May 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Tory grandee Sir Peter Viggers forced to quit over £30,000 gardening bill Times: The purge of Conservative MPs caught up in the expenses scandal intensified last night as David Cameron forced out a grandee who had claimed £30,000 for gardening. Off with their heads? As Gordon dithers while Westminster burns, rejects Cameron’s calls for an [...]
The end of the beginning… the beginning of the end?
Posted in Charon on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The end of the beginning… the beginning of the end? The Speaker has gone.. Long live The Speaker. Michael Martin stepped down before the Cleggian ‘Death by a thousand cuts’ in a selfless act of self immolation to unite Parliament. With his departure the MPs are now speculating on who will be the next Speaker [...]
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