Postcard from The Staterooms: Ball tampering and blog fixing edition

Dear Reader, I write this week with news, that owing to the exigencies of the international betting market, I had to post my weekly *Postcard* on Monday, as opposed to Sunday.  This has resulted in a lot of greedy, venal, f**ks making a great deal of money.  No money changed hands with me, of course, [...]

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Lord Shagger examines Tory logic on Asil Nadir’s donations!

Conservatives ready to repay Asil Nadir’s donations Guardian / Observer: Tory party officials say they will return £440,000 donated by Asil Nadir, if former Polly Peck boss is found guilty of fraud Disaffected pupil?  Surely no-one is daft enough to conduct their own defence at the Crown Court?

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Caught, bowled and stumped… sorry… was I supposed to do that in the 3rd or 4th over?!

Chatting to  a  local who knows a fair bit about cricket this morning while having a coffee at the caff -  He wasn’t surprised about the revelations in the News of The World this morning…saddened for fans, yes… but not surprised.  Tragic.  Hopefully this mess will be cleaned up along with Cricket – truly great [...]

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Tweet du Jour – from @Hangbitch

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And there was I thinking that Clegg was a Messiah…. wrong again !

Nick Clegg acknowledges Liberal Democrat ‘anxieties’ Guardian: Deputy PM says next month’s Lib Dem party conference could be difficult, but insists ‘debate is not a bad thing’ I did enjoy this quote from The Guardian….. Clegg has faced criticism from fellow MPs as well as rank-and-file party members. The veteran Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock [...]

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Law Review: An even more daft idea from a magistrate

A week or so ago I wrote, reasonably seriously, about a half baked plan to have Magistrates Courts set up in shopping malls – an idea that The Magistrates Association appears to have retreated from. Law Review: Magistrates call for courts in shopping centres – a parody? Unfortunately, another even less baked idea has been put [...]

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Law Review: Charon the ‘Agony Uncle’? – Welcome to Kevin Beare & Co

Dear Charon, “I’m an NQ lawyer suffering a minor spiritual crisis. I am quite enjoying the work so far, but my problem is that I look around the office at the partners, all of whom are perfectly pleasant, but rather dull and grey, and think: ‘That’s me in 15-20 years’. No, I have not set [...]

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Breaking News: Twitter Crucifixion

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Lawcast 167: Oliver Wharmby, Priest & Co, on Professional Indemnity Insurance for Solicitors

Lawcast 167: Oliver Wharmby, Priest & Co, on Professional Indemnity Insurance for Solicitors Professional Indemnity Insurance for solicitors is a matter of great importance – without it, solicitors cannot practice. I talk to Oliver Wharmby of Priest & Co, lloyds Insurance Brokers on the the current state of play in the insurance market which is [...]

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Great Leaders of our Times: Deputy Chairman Mao Tse Clegg

I have come up with a new idea to accompany my Smokedo exercises.  I have decided to walk for precisely 30 minutes and see how far I get and then walk back.  This will ensure that I walk for at least one hour daily and have a random experience.  Today, I started from Battersea Square [...]

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Silly Season News

After implausible tales of a rogue long distance swimming salt water crocodile terrorising French and English bathers in the English Channel last week in The Sun (It turned out, predictably, to be a large log),  we have the equally implausible story of the football loving Coalition government backing the Ingerland World Cup hosting bid -  [...]

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Need a solicitor in Wakefield? – well, no better place to find one than this astonishing website

I was fairly certain that Wakefield is in West Yorkshire, but for reasons which will become clear I confirmed that this is the case by using Google maps.  Hat Tip to @Crime Counsel on twitter for drawing my attention to this extraordinary website promoting ‘Wakefield’ solictors which appears to have been translated from the original [...]

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To listen you have to be silent!

Lying in bed listening to the heavy rain with Radio 4 on in the background.  Heard the words that to listen one has to be silent.   Listen and silent have the same letters.  I rather like that

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Muttley Dastardly LLP Episode 1: Deoxyribonucleic Acid

PODCAST VERSION: MUTTLEY DASTARDLY LLP – EPISODE 1 Eva Braun walked into the waiting area outside Matt Muttley’s office on the top floor, elegantly dressed in a dark tailored suit and black court shoes. “Mr Muttley will see you now.  I will show you in.” James Harrison, confirmed as an associate with the firm only [...]

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F**kART: “Evil Dave”

“Evil Dave” came from a well known web pic of David Cameron. Using my new *Painting by Numbers* technique; reducing tone and shape to essential colour blocks – I can knock these out quickly enough to stop me getting bored.  When I was in my early twenties one of my nicknames was ‘Risotto’ – ready [...]

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Law Review: Surge in Britons exported for trial

Surge in Britons exported for trial The number of people in Britain seized under the controversial “no-evidence-needed” European Arrest Warrant rose by more than 50 per cent last year, figures obtained by The Sunday Telegraph show. The Telegraph reports: “In total 1,032 people – almost three a day – were detained and extradited by British [...]

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Law Review: Britain scraps annual assessment of human rights abuses across the world

The new Coalition government, or Tory government propped up by Tory Lite if you prefer, is keen to do business with India, China, in fact, any country it can do business with.  This is perfectly understandable and some might say laudable.  Do I, however, want to buy goods produced under conditions tantamount to slave labour [...]

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A Clockwork Orange Clegg

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Postcard from The Staterooms: Blue Nun edition

Dear Reader, In the latest edition of Carter Ruck’s originally named Newsletter they refer to the fact on page 4 that they are acting for a number of lawyers who are on  the Solicitors From Hell website.  Private Eye, obligingly, informs us that Carter-Ruck are on the Solicitors From Hell website as “Premium Players’. And [...]

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Muttley Dastardly LLP seek only the brightest of the bright

From The Desk of The Director of Education and Strategic Information Dr E Strangelove LLB, BCL, MBA, Ph.D, Solicitor 21st August 2010 INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE TRAINEES We  at Muttley Dastardly LLP appreciate that you come from a generation that has had everything served up to you on a plate by angst ridden middle-class parents who [...]

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