A message from Charon via Dickie Whitebook QC : Happy New Year

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Charon appears to have a Clawbie!

I am a fan of Canadian blogs and draw your attention to many in my forthcoming Blawg Review #292 which I will publish sometime on Sunday, in advance of Monday – my being a Lord of Misrule – Ed of Blawg Review would be surprised if I didn’t…. I am delighted to receive this award [...]

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15-Love to Matt Cooke of BBC Breakfast News!

New Year’s Eve hysteria set in a bit early for me and I enjoyed sitting at my desk between 6.30 am – 7.00 am watching BBC Breakfast.  I was in a surreal mood and observed on twitter that I had been watching BBC London News read by a Thunderbird Puppet. Matt Cooke came back very [...]

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Law Review: Jump? How high?

I came across this fascinating article by James Dean  in The Law Society Gazette this afternoon – the attractions of enforced abstinence from law over the Christmas shut down were wearing thin… Students lured by City-style work Prospective lawyers are most interested in pursuing careers in City-style law, figures from legal careers website All About [...]

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Law Review: Contempt of Court and twitter – Police want new powers of stop and search

Contempt of Court: Twitter was ablaze with speculation on the Yeates murder investigation and the arrest of a potential suspect; with some tweets potentially veering towards publication of material deemed likely to jeopardize a fair trial.   UPDATE: FRIDAY 31 JANUARY 2010 The coverage by The Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and The Sun has been [...]

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F**kART: Dark Tuscan Sky 2010

Dark Tuscan Sky 2010 Charon Acrylics and Dulux paint on Board I went to Tuscany several times in the 1990s.  I enjoyed visiting this part of Italy – but I would have enjoyed it more had the skies been dark and slightly surreal.  I found an old photograph, drank some of Infobunny’s Damson Gin and [...]

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Charon QC Blogging & Drinking for BIG SOCIETY Awards!

Many of you won’t be getting awards this year. Most of us will not get a Knighthood…or even the  MBE…. despite all we do for our country.  There are so many absurd awards at this time of year… so why be left out?! Help yourself to *THE CHARON QC Drinking & Blogging Award 2010*. The [...]

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Muttley Dastardly LLP: We can bring your partner down. We don’t mediate…. they stay down.

I am grateful to Brian Inkster of Inksters [ @BrianIkster ] for drawing my attention to this tweet AFTER I did my Muttley Dastardly nonsense .  Real life is stranger than fiction!

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Onanism in the Blawgosphere

While some like honours and awards, I do not care for them. I like even less, organisations riding off the back of the work of others with their idiotic ranking systems. I came across Wikio tonight.    I despise ranking systems for blogs and I will have no part of it.  I will, however, do all [...]

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Christmas at The Staterooms 2010 and a bit of ‘Urbi et Orbi’

I sat in my Staterooms at midday alone, listening to Church bells.  I had to my right, a glass of Rioja. The Archbishop of Canterbury was calling for the rich to help;  a speech which I am sure was followed closely by HMRC and The Treasury,  and he was suggesting that the marriage of Prince [...]

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Happy Christmas from Charon

Tomorrow… or Today, depending on when you read this, will be the last Christmas of 2010. I shall enjoy it..and I hope you do..

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Charon’s Advent calendar: Day 25 – the last one….

I have enjoyed doing Charon’s Advent calendar – a  suggestion from a friend.  I appear to have cocked up the days… so this may or may not be Day 25..not that it matters.  I wish all readers a Happy Christmas, An Excellent Isaac Newton Day and a Good New Year.  I shall be at my [...]

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Muttley Dastardly LLP Episode 10: RE – A Christmas Carol

MEMORANDUM TO PARTNERS / EYES ONLY From: Matt Muttley, Managing Partner Date: 25th December 2010 RE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Gentlemen, I appreciate that we have scheduled four hours on Christmas Day to attend to matters of family but, as you know, our firm is a 24/7/365 operation and I wish to confirm that we have [...]

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Charon’s Advent calendar: Day 24

I appear to have got up to Day 24 a day early… but strange things happen on this blog, so I’ll have to have another Day 24 tomorrow or be really radical and have a Day 25… Never let is be said that Charon is not relentless – even on the eve of the eve [...]

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Charon’s Advent calendar: Day 23 – Fools in The City edition

As Christmas draws ever closer so too does the end of  my Christmas Advent calendar. Today I have a few interesting law snippets of general interest – and, an Assange free day. I shall start with an irritant… the ‘Class’ system which I despise – a plague in our country which still appears to wreak [...]

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Law Review: The legal recruitment process is changing…

I like innovative ideas. I like ideas that approach practical problems in a different way and, I have to admit, I like Just Go Direct.  I received an email from Catherine Naylor, the brains behind Just Go Direct yesterday,  asking if she could advertise on my online magazine to promote her new business.  I telephoned [...]

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Charon’s Advent calendar: Day 22

Christmas Day is but a few days away… but as I have never been good at deferred gratification and can see aboslutely no reason to wait, or, indeed, in having several Christmas days…. I have started.  I wish you a good Christmas and New Year…. Lord Judge’s interventions in politics have not overstepped the line [...]

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Charon’s Advent calendar: Day 20

I began the day, reduced to watching the banality that is BBC Breakfast.  Most of the programme was about SNOW…with pictures of people,  like plague victims, lying on the airport concourse, wearing what appeared to be bacofoil…. prompting me to tweet that if “You want to get the full HEATHROW experience….at home… sit on your [...]

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Law Review: Pre-Christmas look at key news and law blogs

Immigration cap overturned by high court judges Guardian: Theresa May, the home secretary, illegally bypassed parliament to bring in temporary limit on non-EU workers, judges rule. Two senior judges have ruled that the temporary limit imposed from 28 June on skilled migrants from outside the European Union is unlawful because ministers sidestepped proper parliamentary approval [...]

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Postcard from The Staterooms: Christmas 2010 edition

Dear Reader, This will be my last Postcard From the Staterooms before Christmas, so I thought I would start with a picture of me and Vince Cable.  Can you tell the difference? Have you ever seen us in the same room together? I am, as it happens, looking forward to Christmas.  I shall spend it [...]

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