Le Mort de Davide – un hommage from Charon!

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READ! LEARN! INWARDLY DIGEST! – I am the Leader!

No word yet on what David M is doing…. he has until 5.00 pm.  Channel 4 reports that he is in casual clothes at home, prompting Krishnan Guru-Murthy to tweet that if DM is standing for Shadow Cabinet he (Krishnan) is a banana. *Sláinte…To The New King Across The Water*… If DM doesn’t stand! ….*goes [...]

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Law Review: Conduct unbecoming of the legal profession? – The Party’s Over?

ACS:Law is a United Kingdom law firm specialising in intellectual property law.  ISP Review notes: “Controversial solicitors firm ACS:Law UK (Andrew Crossley), which last week had all of its dirty email communication laundry leaked across the internet (here), is now facing more problems after Privacy International (PI) announced that it would take legal action against [...]

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Guest Post: The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse

The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse Geoffrey Robertson QC Penguin, 2010, £6.99 ISBN: 978-0241953846 Cries to arrest high-profile figures, such as Henry Kissinger or Tony Blair, for ‘crimes against humanity’ are relatively commonplace among the placards of street protesters. But it is much rarer to find a sustained legal examination [...]

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Lord Shagger writes….. about stolen train sets and law firm in online porn hack?

The article from The Lawyer which Lord Shagger refers to in his letter to me is here – attribution is all *Lord Shagger is resident in Monaco – it is a life sentence.

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Ed Miliband *speech* – Over 40? Sorry…. you are not one of *Us*

I listened to the entire speech given by the newly minted NewEd – a man who appeared to have forgotten that he wrote the last Labour manifesto and was part of a government that brought in fairly repressive anticivlib laws.  Guardian summary Be that as it may – I am a pragmatist. I understand the [...]

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Law Review: Quick links to current stories

A quick look at key stories – without comment.  I shall be doing some commentary on current issues later in the day. CoL slammed for refusal to repay non-starter fees The Lawyer: The College of Law (CoL) has entered into a major spat with several of Kaplan Law School’s LPC clients after refusing to refund [...]

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Ambassador from Planet F**k to have to talks with Russkis in Ed Square

It was, apparently, Alastair Campbell who dubbed Ed Miliband the Ambassador from Planet F**k….. if so… props to him….or was it Malcolm Tucker?

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New Labour Leader – ready to roll with new economic model!

Curiously… some say that it was actually Karl Marx who  said these words some time ago…… but I could be wrong….

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Good mornings Earthlings… Take me to your Leader!

Quite extraordinary what one can find on twitter…. Props to @loveandgarbage (picture courtesy @kennyFarq)

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The Milisiah is among us… in a wind farm – appropriate, I suspect

New Leader….. yawn….. deeds not words will define if he is any good… until then I will not be doing any UNITING After 30 years of voting Labour – quite happy to wonder about looking at policies and other ideas…. in a laid back, non-aligned, way!  Liberating…in fact.   I did not say… Liberalating…..

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Law Review: #Twitterjoketrial – Shooting the Rule of Law in the foot?

David Allen Green will do the serious comment on the continuing saga of the #Twitterjoketrial – as he has done since the beginning.  [His blog is here ] My only observation, having read the Guardian piece early this morning,  is… that the Rule of Law is actually important in our country – and it really [...]

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Law Review: Shared values ? Iran and the USA? Surely not!

// I’m very sorry: the final words of Teresa Lewis The Independent: Her last meal was fried chicken and green peas, washed down with a can of Dr Pepper. Her last outfit was a blue prison uniform and a pair of flip-flops. And her final words, uttered in the moments before they strapped her down [...]

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Breaking News: Puff of White Smoke – Habemus Labourleaderem

The smart money…rumour is that Ed Milisiah has won… this is fine by me… as I now have the perfect excuse to go completely non-aligned politically… been rather disappointed with Labour civlib position in recent years …and think it is time to wait and see what our MPs actually do rather than say they will [...]

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Law Review: Supreme Court to go on ‘Bonfire of The Quangos”? and other law

Supreme court status should not be at risk in ‘bonfire of the quangos’ Guardian: Coalition must safeguard separation of powers and the rule of law when considering status of UK supreme court The UK Supreme Court blog has pointed out that the UK supreme court is listed as “still to be decided – options being [...]

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Charon publishes new book! – CHARON QC THE JOURNEY!

After reading Tony Blair’s book The Journey – I had a glass or two of Rioja, smoked a few Marlboros and thought to myself… Charon…I said… You could write a book.… so I did…. it isn’t a very long book as you can see above! All profits from This book are going to CASH – [...]

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STARWARS CHAMBER: Will Vince Vader join the *Star Chamber*?

Five departments reach agreement on spending cuts BBC: Five Whitehall departments have reached spending agreements with the Treasury, ahead of next month’s spending review. The Treasury, Cabinet Office, Foreign Office plus the environment and communities departments have reached agreement on cutting their spending. As a result ministers Eric Pickles and Caroline Spelman have joined the [...]

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Law Review: College of Law takes £450,000 hit in Halliwells collapse

CoL left with £450,000 Halliwells bad debt The Lawyer reports: “The College of Law (CoL) is owed almost half a million pounds by Halliwells relating to unpaid LPC fees for the 2009-10 financial year. The institution, which ran the LPC for Halliwells’ trainees on an exclusive basis, is one of dozens of creditors owed a [...]

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My new internet provider asked me… if I wanted Cable!

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Vince Cable: Putting a bit of SPIV on Coalition government

Cable attacks City ‘spivs and gamblers’ Independent: Business Secretary Vince Cable launched a searing attack today on the City “spivs and gamblers” who crippled the British economy. In a rousing speech to round off the first Liberal Democrat conference since they entered coalition, Mr Cable condemned the “outrageous” scale of bank bonuses after the credit [...]

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