Charon goes on Circuit?…..

LAW AND JUSTICE (ENGLAND AND WALES) – THE CIRCUIT SYSTEM. HC Deb 31 July 1885 vol 300 cc673-4 § MR. WHITLEY asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the Government will, during the Recess, consider the present circuit system, and especially the best mode of providing increased facilities required in the large [...]

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18 July: Postcard from Chancery Lane

I write to you from Chancery Lane in the heart of legal London.  The Temple is but a stone’s throw away where barristers are anguishing (or not) about their future in a world of Tesco Law and men in sharp suits suggesting all manner of collaborations, partnerships and alternative business structures.  Chancery Lane, is of [...]

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Legal educators get caught short on exam procedures.

RollonFriday reports on more headaches for the two leading vocational law schools, The College of Law and BPP. “Students at BPP Law School have complained after the start of an exam was delayed for two and half hours. The students on the LPC course in London had assembled at the Emirates Stadium last Saturday to sit their [...]

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17th July: Insite Law news, reports, blogs and podcasts updated

Editor pick of the day 17th July 2009 Murder rate hits 20-year low Independent: The murder rate in England and Wales is the lowest it has been for 20 years, according to annual crime figures released today. There were 136 fewer homicides – including murder, manslaughter and child killings – in 2008/9 compared to a [...]

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The perils of Twitter

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16th July: News, reports, profession and blogs update Insite Law

Simon Myerson QC names, shames and acclaims Simon Myerson in his excellent Pupilllage and How To Get It blog collates comments from BVC students about the pupillage interview process. He names those Chambers where students made adverse or negative comments in his survey  and gives full credit to Chambers where students had a rather more [...]

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Unsilent Partners (2): The legalo-ethical position on assisted suicide

The legalo-ethical position on assisted suicide Mike Semple Piggot I was talking to Colin Samuels about the amendments to our law on suicide being put forward by Lord Falconer – an amendment which failed to pass scrutiny in the House of Lords. We thought it would be interesting to debate this issue, comparing and contrasting [...]

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15th July: News etc up on Insite Law

15th July: News etc up on Insite Law

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Lawcast 147: Nick Jarrett-Kerr’s five point plan on Radical Proactivity for law firms in the present recession

Nick Jarrett-Kerr: Radical Proactivity: A five point plan Nick Jarrett-Kerr’s blog Jarrett-Kerr Consulting Lawcast 147: Nick Jarrett-Kerr’s five point plan on Radical Proactivity for law firms in the present recession Today I am to talking to Nick Jarrett-Kerr, a former managing partner of Bevan Ashford and more recently a leading management consultant and author on [...]

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Boring barristers?… some are far from boring… BabyBarista and the Art of War

Marcel Berlins has stirred things up with his article in the Guardian suggesting the modern advocates lack the flair and atistry of their forebears…. and suggests that modern barristers are boring. I don’t want to discuss advocacy or, indeed, the wider question of whether modern barristers are or are not boring.  What I want to [...]

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Blawg Review #220 from Overlawyered

Overlawyered is a Blog I read regularly. Walter Olsen has been blogging for ten years and this, he suggests (and he is almost certainly right), makes his law blog the oldest.  I have been writing Charon QC since 2001 (albeit only using WordPress since 2006) and I’m sure a few other bloggers are not far [...]

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An excellent initiative: Bar National Mock Trial Competition 2009/10

Bar National Mock Trial Competition 2009/10 10 July 2009 Volunteers Needed! Can You Help? The Bar National Mock Trial Competition has been running since 1991 and each year involves over 200 schools and nearly 3,000 students from across the UK. Teams of up to 15 students (16 in Scotland), aged between 15 and 18, prepare [...]

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11 July: Postcard from The Good Ship DOOMED

I write today from the SS Doomed, a fine ship, captained by my cousin Captain Horatio Charon, who served with absolutely no distinction as Commodore of some blazer wearing yacht squadron on the South Coast of England and bored everyone, including himself, rigid with tales of life on the bloody ocean wave. I sit here [...]

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Afghanistan… winning the ‘unwinnable’ war…and the peace.

The newspapers, television and other media are covering the war in Afghanistan with increasing vigour and today we learn of the death of eight soliders in the past 24 hours. The bravery of these young men and women from all walks of life and military rank is remarkable; few of us can even imagine what [...]

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Enough law…

I appear to have spent far too much of my time doing law related work this week and not nearly enough time being amused, so much so that I have resolved not to do any law whatsoever until Sunday – save for just reading Mr Justice Mann’s excellent judgment in Office of Fair Trading v [...]

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Legal Week covers BPP refusal to disclose QAA report

Legal Week covers BPP refusal to disclose QAA report… I have updated my original post of yesterday to reflect this.

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A tale of two tribes: Transparency in legal education

With power comes responsibility. The College of Law and BPP Law School are the leading providers of vocational legal education in the United Kingdom.  Between them they train the majority of students who study law at Graduate Diploma in Law level and who wish to qualify to practice law as a solicitor or barrister.  Both [...]

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9th July: Update up on Insite Law

9th July: Update up on Insite Law Editor pick of the day 9th July 2009 Ex-Murdoch editor Andrew Neil: News of the World revelations one of most significant media stories of our time Guardian: Former Sunday Times editor says tabloid did not have a public interest defence and Andy Coulson has questions to answer One [...]

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Beyond parody… beyond indulgence…

Nick Griffin’s views are popular in the UK with  the Yoberati or knuckle dragging classes, so why should we be surprised when he goes on the BBC and suggests that the EU should start sinking boats with illegal immiigrants on them? Why any of us continue to give him air time is baffling – I [...]

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Unsilent Partners: Response on Madoff

I have posted my response to Colin Samuels’  post on Madoff sentence at the foot of his post. We are keen to involve as many people as possible – so if you wish to suggest topics for comment and analysis, assist us in writing a section of the post (anonymously or with full attribution and [...]

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