It sometimes takes me by surprise how quickly Fridays come round – so time for another look from left field from Rive Gauche.
Ombudsman refers complaint to CCRC over fear that poor work led to wrongful conviction
This, from Legal Futures, did interest me… “The Legal Ombudsman (LeO) has passed a complaint to the Criminal Cases Review Commission after a solicitor and a barrister’s errors potentially led to a man’s conviction for theft, in one of 365 cases that the service has informally resolved so far, it has emerged.” Well worth a read.
RollonFriday continues to remind its readers about the high salary being taken by College of Law supremo, Nigel Savage, while covering a story on The College of Law’s new two year law degree programme:
“A spokeswoman for the CoL told RollOnFriday that the eye-watering cost hadn’t yet been finalised, but would be “up to £9,000 per year“. She justified this on the basis that students would get 11 hours a week of “face to face teaching” (and definitely not the need to pay its Chief Exec the thick end of half a million quid a year). More….
On the subject of the two year law degree, which I have offered a view on in an earlier post [Law Review: College of Law to offer two year law degree] – Alex Aldridge writes : Students weigh up the two-year law degree
British terror suspects banned from returning to UK
In the wake of re-branding Control Orders to TPIMs – which even Rumpelstiltskin couldn’t arrange for anyone to spin into golden PR for Clegg, the government has come up with another wheeze. When undesirables leave the country (hopefully MI5 will let the government know) the government will cancel their passports and refuse to let them back in.
The Guardian reports: Lawyers condemn increased use of deprivation of citizenship orders, as eight people are served notices while out of the country
With apologies to the silks pictured above. They were not on a Tunisian style democracy protest march. I suspect they were on their way to breakfast. But… it was such a good picture I really could not stop myself!
The UKSC Blog has a fascinating post on…
Do ‘unaccountable and unelected’ judges have too much power?
Legal Week picked it up… and well worth a read…even on a Friday afternoon.
Michael Howard, the former leader of the Conservative Party, this week claimed that “more and more decisions are being made by unaccountable judges”. Essentially making the ‘green light’ argument that judicial intereference with politicians’ decisions should be limited in scope, Lord Howard said: “Judges are unaccountable and unelected and ought to be very reluctant indeed to set aside decisions of this kind”. He was speaking as a group of local authorities were launching a High Court challenge against the Government’s controversial decision to axe Labour’s multibillion-pound Building Schools for the Future secondary school rebuilding scheme.
Hat Tip to RollonFriday for publicising this: One-off gig to raise money for the Queensland Flood Relief Benefit – LexisNexis have organised a gig this Sunday, 30 January, to raise funds for all those who’ve been affected by the severe flooding in Australia. Details…
Vince Cable, after a tour de farce on Strictly Come Dancing has taken up stand up comedy. His joke about bankers and skid marks on the road is unlikely to attract any employers apart from reality TV producers who want to go one better than George Galloway dressed in red spandex saying “Do you want me to be the cat?” on Big Brother – but, surprisingly, he is still a Secretary of State and making some quite important decisions:. Here he is setting out proposals to reform employment tribunals – a rather illiberal reform from the point of view of the employee but ….SUPER… for employers.
AND finally…… Free Kintish webinar for barristers only 31.1.11
Cassons for Counsel extend to you an invitation from Will Kintish to attend a webinar from the comfort of your own office on Monday 31 January 2011 at 6pm. The session is entitled ‘The Secrets of Great Networkers’ and will last for 45 minutes. Please note that this webinar is completely free of charge!
Cameron calls for ‘reform’ in Egypt
We live in strange times…. and this report from Yahoo.…. makes me wonder ……
Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday that “reform” was needed in Egypt as protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s rule escalated.”What we need is reform in Egypt,” Cameron, who has been at the Davos summit of political and business leaders in Switzerland, told CNN television.
“I mean we support reform and progress in the greater strengthening of their democracy and civil rights and the rule of law. Clearly there are grievances that people have and they need to be met and matched.
Excellent… perhaps we could have some of that in Battersea Square?
I have this image of David Cameron phoning protestors in Egypt to talk about ‘Big Society’ and the Egyptian protests ceasing immediately…… but it is now Friday night…and the Burgundy is rather good…..
You do know that Rumpelstiltskin means ‘crinkly foreskin’, don’t you?
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Korhomme – Excellent… I didn’t know this. I was, of course, thinking about the German fairy tale……..
I love to see woodland in spring, when the pristine greenery first emerges and you get carpets of early flowers like bluebells.