Lawcast 170: Professor Moorhead on the state of UK legal Education

Today I am talking to Professor Richard Moorhead  deputy head of the law school  at Cardiff University about legal education – the first in a series of between five and seven podcasts on this topical and important issue. We focus on the following themes: 1. Where are the problems in legal education and training? 2. [...]

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Muttley Dastardly LLP Episode 9: Position paper on The Bribery Act

SECRET (NO FOREIGNERS) From: Matt Muttley, Managing Partner To: The Partners RE: BRIBERY AND HOW TO GET AWAY WITH IT Gentlemen, I write on a matter of some importance to those of our clients who have interests in the aerospace and arms industry and a side interest in what I shall loosely define as ‘football [...]

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Prince Andrew in who is the idiot who is trying to stop us bribing Johnny Foreigner SHOCK HORROR!

It is impossible to parody this latest nonsense from Prince Andrew… he has beaten me to it himself…. classic stuff from Wikileaks… WikiLeaks cables: ‘Rude’ Prince Andrew shocks US ambassador Guardian: Duke railed against France, British anti-corruption investigations into BAE and American ignorance, leaked dispatches reveal During the two-hour engagement in 2008 at a hotel [...]

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Time to turn up the heat…and shine a very bright light into legal education

It is all very well doing parodies with Muttley Dastardly LLP to make a point on topical  legal issues ( and there are quite a few more MD LLP episodes coming ) but I feel the time has come, having watched from the sidelines for a couple of years, to shine a very bright light [...]

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Law Review: #Wikileaks #cablegate…the cat is out of the bag….

Wikileaks release of embassy cables reveals US concerns BBC The Guardian coverage

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PRAVDA!: Red *Buzz* Ed Lightweight in plan to take BIG SOCIETY off David Cameron

After 63 days as Labour leader, following an astonishingly long selection process, the Labour Party got the leader they didn’t really want – at least the MPs and Members did not want.  Ed M has been in power – whatever that means these days in Labour circles,  for 63 days.  Deduct 12 or so days [...]

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Law Round Up: A few articles from the press and the UK law blogs

A quick post with some interesting articles on legal issues I have read in the press and in some of the law blogs… Police kettling stirs the pot of student unrest This series of letters in the Guardian makes interesting reading on this controversial issue on the kettling and use of police horses at the [...]

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Breaking News: Student protests – Police to employ Snowmen to break up student protesters

In the meantime… have a look at this video and see if you think Police acted wisely with the use of horses?  

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Charon buys toaster Christmas present for DPM Clegg… possibly……

The Sun – NICK Clegg has told pals he “may be toast” in a year’s time – as the Lib Dems’ taste of power backfires on him. The Sun I have spent a happy half hour online looking at toasters.  I have never bought a Christmas present for a politician.  I think I should do [...]

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Charon After Dark podcast: The Week’s Events + Drinking Forecast

Charon After Dark news round up with the Drinking Forecast added (if you have not heard it before) Listen to Charon After Dark  

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Vermin in Ermine Breaking News: Newly elevated Tory idiot talks bollocks – suprised?

Howard Flight rapped by PM over ‘breeding’ gaffe BBC: David Cameron has called on a new Conservative peer to apologise for saying welfare changes will encourage “breeding” among benefit claimants.Labour called Howard Flight’s comments “shameful” and said they showed the Tories were out of touch with people. Mr Cameron said he did not agree with [...]

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My response to a commenter on David Allen Green’s TwitterJokeTrial post

The News Statesman website obviously does not like either of the two email addresses I provided – which were both valid, despite the New Statesman saying they were not – perhaps old Labour statist ideals die hard? Here is the post that I could not post on the New Statesman earlier – I won’t bother [...]

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Legal Education Review: Where does the knowledge come from? by Prof Richard Moorhead

Legal Education Review: Where does the knowledge come from? Professor Richard Moorhead writes: It’s very early days. The SRA, BSB and ILEX’s IPS have announced the review. The LSB have indicated a desire that the review be as fundamental as the Ormerod Review from 1971. I do not know what shape the review is going to [...]

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As I don’t have kids and can’t clone myself… I thought a Statue *In Memoriam*

Quite how I managed to come up with the idea of cloning myself and buying some petri dishes on twitter this afternoon… I have no idea – save, that I had done a decent day’s work, having started at 3.30 am this morning as usual, and felt that I may as well have a couple [...]

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Law Review:#Twitterjoketrial – Lawyers advertising on TV – Coulson’s imminent departure – Woman jailed for falsely retracting rape claim is freed

Twitter joke trial: Paul Chambers to take appeal to high court Guardian: Paul Chambers to appeal to high court over conviction for joke Twitter message about Robin Hood airport This is a brave decision on the part of Paul Chambers. Lawyer,  David Allen Green (aka author of the Jack of kent blog) tweeted to say [...]

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Duncan Bannatyne does it again…on Twitter… Oh dear!

It astonishes me how twitter can be so abusive… even if one disagrees with a point of view – there is just no call to tweet that someone else is a *phaedophile lover* – and coming from a BBC Dragon – quite shocking.  Then, encouraging his followers to report the tweeter for abuse? The legal [...]

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EurobailoutNews: Cleggstradamus – Prognosticator or Bloviator?

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Third Rock From The Sun Latest….. mystery hand appears at Downing Street reception

I am fascinated by that weird mystery hand…. where did it come from?

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Law Review: Legal Regulator in CUT student debt by CUTTING study shock!

In the finest tradition of English Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera the Legal Services Board Chairman, David Edmonds – who is neither lawyer nor educator (It would appear from his cv – not that that is an issue and may well be a benefit.  He has extensive commercial experience)  – has stepped into the fray [...]

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Breaking Shock Horror: The law is dominated by public school boys/girls… still!

I like the H M Bateman cartoons.  The fact that he attended the same public school I did, albeit at different times, is interesting to me – because I did not know that.  Mind you…so did Miles Kington and he spoke Franglais far better than I can, now, speak French… to my shame. The reference [...]

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