31st July: In conversation…..

Today, Friday 31st July 2009, brought the curtain down on a venerable institution – the Judicial Committee of The House of Lords – to be transformed on October 1st into The Supreme Court of The United Kingdom. The judges of the Supreme Court are to be styled ‘Justices of the Supreme Court’. But… there is [...]

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Barbecue Summer…?

It’s an old joke… and I am grateful to my dear friend in BrisVegas, Australia for sending it to me… but I just could not resist after the ludicrous predictions of the Met Office that we would have a long hot sizzling “Barbecue Summer”.  Well… as we all know… we haven’t….. and even the Third [...]

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A few good reads.. from Bastard to White Rabbit and a very direct Clown

Time for a bit of non-law… a few very good reads – and while The White Rabbit is a serious lawyer who specialises in blood stains, writing about law on his blog is a rarity. A man after my own heart – and always a pleasure to read – including his comments on my Lord [...]

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Lords rule on assisted suicide: R (on the application of Purdy) v Director of Public Prosecutions

On the day when the Law Lords bade farewell to the House of Lords and sit as Justices of the Supreme Court of the United kingdom at the new Supreme Court in October,  they gave judgment on one of the emotive issues of our times in R (on the application of Purdy) v Director of [...]

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An issue of justice

While our own legal history has a grim and primitive past; with trial by ordeal and combat being replaced by rough justice and the penalties of death by hanging, drawing, quatering et al – and the Americans and other supposedly civilised jurisdictions around the world continue to exact the penalty of death – we do [...]

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30th July: News updated on Insite Law

Farewell to the law lords Times / David Pannick QC Today the law lords sit to give judgment for the last time in the House of Lords and, as Lord Hope of Craighead said there last week, the upper chamber will be “losing part of itself”. From October the law lords will become Justices of [...]

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The Queen asks how one’s credit-crunch started

Guardian: This is how we let the credit crunch happen, Ma’am …

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Good time to be a lawyer?

There is a certain irony  that the  Bar Standard Board could be forced to abandon plans to introduce a compulsory aptitude test designed to reduce the number of people taking the Bar Vocational Course  after The Office of Fair Trading ‘dubbed it’ anti-competitive earlier this week. (The Lawyer) Far be it from me, a blogger [...]

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29th July: News up on Insite Law

29th July: News up on Insite Law Check out the new law news feeds, the news from the profession and ICLR law report feeds – also archived on a searchable new blog.

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Lawcast 152: Lord Falconer on assisted dying and the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Lawcast 152: Lord Falconer on assisted dying and the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Today I am talking to Lord Falconer, a former Lord Chancellor, about two important and interesting themes – assisted dying and his amendment to the Suicide Act defeated in the Lords recently and secondly his thoughts on the reasoning [...]

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28 July: News, law reports, blogs updated on Insite Law

28 July: News, law reports, blogs updated on Insite Law

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“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch” – Jack Nicholson

I do like a bit of irony… and in the wake of my podcast with Dan Hull of Whataboutclients? only last Saturday where Dan put forward his very strong views that bloggers and those who comment on blogs should identify themselves and not hide behind a cloak of anonymity – there is a certain delicious [...]

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Insite Law – major upgrade

I have almost completed the structural upgrade to Insite Law. Each weekday morning, and once over the weekend, Insite Law will be updated with editorial, Editor’s pick and all the important latest legal news from The Times, Telegraph, Independent,  Guardian, Ministry of Justice, Bar Council and The Law Society. the Law reports will also be [...]

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Dinghy sailors and canoeists to be subject to shipping laws

The Times: Dinghy sailors and canoeists to be subject to shipping laws

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Blawg Review #222 – from the IP Think Tank in Australia

Blawg Review #222 – from the IP Think Tank in Australia This week the Intellectual Property mavens get their teeth into the latest blog posts from around the world.  IP Think Tank are based in Melbourne, Australia…..

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27 July: News up on Insite Law

News is up on Insite Law The news is up in RSS feed format on Insite Law. There is also a searchable news blog which provides the feeds of headlines and a brief summary.  The links, of course, go to the full news report from the Insite news blog archive. I have also built a [...]

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Lawcast 151: Scots lawyer Brian Inkster on Crofting law, technology and other matters

Inksters Short film on Brian Inkster and his practice Law firm that is just that little bit different Lawcast 151: Scots lawyer Brian Inkster on Crofting law, technology and other matters Today I am talking to a Scots lawyer – my first podcast with a practitioner from Scotland. Shetland born Brian Inkster founded his own [...]

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26 July: Postcard from the seaside

I shall not be taking a holiday this year.  This is not unusual.  I have not had a holiday for five years – and it suits me.  Drinking a small glass of Tempranillo with my toast and marmalade at 5.30 this morning,  as the gulls flew in, I wondered where the middle classes would be [...]

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Lawcast 150: US lawyer Dan Hull of Whataboutclients? on anonymity and blogging.

Lawcast 150: US lawyer Dan Hull of Whataboutclients? on anonymity and blogging. Today, in my 150th podcast, I am talking to US Lawyer, fellow blogger and friend Dan Hull, co-founder with Julie McGuire of Hull Mcguire PC and founder of the WhatAboutClients? Blog which on Saturdays turns into the WhatAboutParis blog. Dan and some other [...]

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27th July… Silly Week?

Although readers may not notice any change in substance on my blog, I am quite happy at James Higham’s suggestion to promote and support  Man in a Sheds ‘Silly Week’ . James Higham writes an excellent blog -  Nourishing Obscurity -  and is often to be found posting on blkogs as the mood takes him [...]

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