Independent: Mutilated for voting in defiance of the Taliban

The Independent reports today…. Mutilated for voting in defiance of the Taliban… grotesque and barbaric.  This is the future for Afghanistan? If Coalition forces and the Afghanistan army cannot make further headway? What is is with religion: – a conjuring trick at best, a brutal tool of social control and fear at worst?  How many [...]

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Blawg Review #227 is up…

Blawg Review #227 is up at The Inspired Solo. Sheryl Sisk Schelin has eschewed ‘themes’ and parodies the many blawgers (myself included)  who have used the Blawg Review concept of themes – mercilessly.. The problem with themed blawg reviews is mainly one of oneupsmanship — somebody gets clever with the Shakespeare, then the next guy [...]

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28 August: Charon after possibly too many glasses

Fortunately, the debate on the release of Al-Megrahi has been thoughtful, incisive and fascinating – whatever view you take on the decision by the Scottish Justice Minister to release Al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds. I have learned a great deal from the debate.  Inspired by Carl Gardner’s measured post (which I still agree with) I wrote [...]

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28th August: Postcard from the Medway

And so I woke this morning, the eve of the last Bank holiday until Christmas, and said… “Today I feel naval.  I shall go to the historic dockyard at Chatham and see a submarine.” And I made it so… as Captain Picard of another type of ship used to say… endlessly on Star Trek. At [...]

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Insite Law Equity & Trusts FREE online resource

Insite Law Equity & Trusts FREE online resource Dr John Birchall has started to publish his Equity & Trusts free resources. Chapter 1 is up. Have a look?

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Slayer of prawns…and other matters…

I am Charon… Slayer of prawns! It is my duty… they cause global warming and I eat a great many in my quest for Greendom to rid the waters of Britain and elsewhere of prawns. Well… I had little sleep last night and after my experiences earlier with a Samsung Jet mobile phone, I believe [...]

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1000 cameras solve 1 crime… we LEAD the WORLD!!!

The BBC reports…solemnly… tonight…. 1,000 cameras ‘solve one crime’ Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city’s surveillance network has claimed. The internal police report found the million-plus cameras in London rarely help catch criminals. In one month CCTV helped capture just eight out [...]

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Bolch did it! His book is NOW OUT!!

An ex girlfriend once called me ‘Lord of the Aisles’ on account of the number of times I had troubled the Registrar of Marriages and a country vicar – of methodist persuasion – although I told him I was an atheist.. and wouldn’t be involved in any of the mumbo jumbo bits.   I was [...]

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Insite Law FREE resource for Family Law

Insite Law FREE resource for Family Law The first chapter of the FREE Family Law resource being prepared by John Bolch, Solicitor and author of the Family Lore blog is now up. The remaining chapters will follow shortly. The first chapter on Marriage is brief. Chapter 2 will be on Divorce. Have a look? The [...]

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Pink Tape hosts…Blawg Review #226

This week Pink Tape is proudly hosting Blawg Review, and in keeping with longstanding tradition (she) will be entering into the spirit of transatlantic competition. A quirky and different approach to Blawg Review from one our leading UK blawgers…. enjoyably different. Have a look…

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22nd August: Postcard from a Tent in Tripoli

There is absolutely no connection…and I must make this clear to Foreign Office best practice standards… between my visit to Libya, a subsequent meeting with a man in a tent and the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber. I just happened, like Lord Mandelson and Prince Andrew before me may have thought to themselves…. when [...]

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Cardiff Law School on the ‘naughty step’ ….

Nearly Legal writes: “Our non-lawyer/law student readers, or even non-barrister readers, might have to forgive us for this for this Naughty Step, but it was too good to resist, particularly for those of us – i.e.  me – still newly qualified enough to harbour memories of their professional courses (LPC/BVC), and also familiar, from the [...]

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Insite Law free resources project

I am delighted to report that Dr John Birchall, a barrister and experienced academic, will be writing the free text and produce free lectures for Equity & Trusts and Land Law and his new text will start to appear on Insite Law Magazine from the third week in September.  This means that we now have [...]

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Lockerbie bomber released on compassionate grounds

The Lockerbie bomber is to be released on compassionate grounds, the Scottish Government has announced. The BBC reports: Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, 57, was jailed in 2001 for the atrocity which claimed 270 lives in 1988.Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill revealed that the Libyan, who has terminal prostate cancer, would be allowed to return to his [...]

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Employment Law free on Insite Law

Employment Law resource FREE on Insite Law I am pleased to let you know that Michael Scutt, a partner at Dale Langley in the City and author of the Jobsworth blog has volunteered to write the free Employment text and case resource hosted on Insite Law. If anyone would be interested in writing  Land Law [...]

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Constitutional Law and European Law

Constitutional Law and European Law Barrister, ex-government lawyer and author of the Head of Legal blog, Carl Gardner,  will be writing the Insite Law free online text and resources for Constitutional Law and European law. The Contract law free resources will give you an idea of the style and depth.

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17th August: news up on Insite Law

You just have to read this from Idealawg: The “slackoisie” controversy does not die: My four questions (I add my observations in the comments sections… the debate going on is wonderful stuff! ) >>> Insite Law Magazine updated… no new cases, though. FREE online resources update Inspired by the Free Legal Web project established by [...]

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15th August: Postcard from LA LA Land…

A quick note this week… and what an extraordinary and surreal week it has been… to let you know that I am not working as a sales assistant or ‘host’ at one of Abercrombie & Crotch’s shops.  I am, I fear, too ugly and too ‘rough’ for this… but I would rather be a bit [...]

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Abercrombie & Fitch told to pay disabled worker Riam Dean £9,000

Abercrombie & Fitch told to pay disabled worker Riam Dean £9,000 Times: A law student who was prevented from working on the shop floor of a clothing chain because her false arm was contrary to its “look policy” has been awarded more than £9,000 by an employment tribunal. Abercrombie & Fitch, a US chain that [...]

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Free online materials project – Criminal Law

I am delighted to be able to say that Andrew Keogh, Barrister and author of The White Rabbit blog, an experienced practitioner and published author,  is going to be publishing his new Criminal Law text and lectures on Insite Law FREE.  I am hoping to be able to announce Constitutional Law soon.  I am looking, [...]

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