Charon…. Royal Wedding Special

Enjoyed Royal Wedding… I don’t really need to comment….. AND… inevitably….. a Royal Wedding picture doing the rounds on twitter HT @Christianuncut It must be difficult being a celebrity…..

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Law Review: Facebook contempt – John Hemming MP breaks injunction again – Privacy Law

While I am more than happy for those who believe in what they believe to continue to do so without fear of harassment – I am not too keen on the idea that any religion should be a foundation or principle of consideration – in the promulgation or application of our law. I read an [...]

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Breaking Superinjunction News: Calm down dear… says Mr Justice Dismarred

Cameron claimed that his use of the phrase *Calm Down Dear* at PMQs today to calm down an excited Labour MP…..was based on the old Esure advert by Michael Winner….  so I am fairly sure…..

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Legal Profession Law (4): Jeremy Hopkins, Practice Manager, 3 Verulam Buildings

Today I am talking to Jeremy Hopkins, a practice manager at 3 Verulam Buildings, the Chambers of Ali Malek QC – a leading and well known commercial set.  Given the recent TV programme Silk (and the arguably  better version of Peter Moffat’s writing, North Square – both series featuring extremely cunning clerks at the very [...]

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Has Charon died..and gone to *Legal Hell*……?

While I am happy to support (any) government against the absurd posturing of the tabloids on law, the rule of law and their agenda to control…['UNELECTED JUDGE' FOUND ON THE MOON yada yada blah] I do wonder, sometimes…. if our modern politicians (who make the laws)… actually know any law / much about law or [...]

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Law Review: Agadoo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree…

High Court judge ‘sits’ in Tenerife: Sensitive child protection cases will be heard by telephone in hotel room The Mail on Sunday is not happy with this latest ‘unelected’ judicial activity….. John Bolch, over at Family Lore takes up the issue…. with this pithy view: Perhaps not the best decision… I have absolutely no idea [...]

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Postcard From The Staterooms: Urbi et Orbi and *Contra Mundum* edition

Dear Reader, Being an atheist, I tend to find myself at a bit of a loose end on these extended Easter weekends… and…as I well know.. the devil makes work for idle hands.  I did, however, have an amusing Good Friday morning.  I decided that I would get into the spirit of things by having [...]

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#WithoutPrejudice Podcast 4: Twitter Joke Trial – Privacy Law – Freedom of Speech – Judicial review – Referendums and the Law – Law of Royal Succession

#WithoutPrejudice Podcast 4: Twitter Joke Trial – Privacy Law – Freedom of Speech – Judicial Review – Referendums and the Law – Law of Royal Succession LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Our guest tonight was Dr Evan Harris  (Follow on Twitter?  @DrEvanHarris ) Useful links:  Twitter Joke Trial Privacy law should be made by MPs, not [...]

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Lawcast 183: Nichola Higgins, Chairman of The Young Barristers Committee on the new CPS panel – Career at the Criminal Bar – Legal aid issues

Lawcast 183: Nichola Higgins, Chairman of The Young Barristers Committee on the new CPS panel – Career at the Criminal Bar -  Legal aid issues Today I am talking to Nichola Higgins, Chairman of the Young Barristers Committee. On the 30th March of this year, the CPS announced: “The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is today [...]

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Breaking Wedding News: PM Dave *The U-Turn* Camerondirect to wear tails after all.. who’d have thunk it?!

The Daily Telegraph reports… with appropriate solemnity…. David Cameron will wear tails to royal wedding after all Daily Telegraph: David Cameron is to wear a morning suit – and not a lounge suit – to the royal wedding, it was disclosed today. The issue of the Prime Minister’s attire had become one of the most [...]

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Law Review: The future of legal education is a shopping trolley?

Frank Zappa had a point when he said…“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. “ I’m in the midst of a series of podcasts and blog posts about the future of legal education. Lawcast 175: Professor Gary Slapper, Open University, on the reform of [...]

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Law Review Guest Post: David Allen Green on The Twitter Joke Trial

Twitter Joke Trial update BY David Allen Green, solicitor, New Statesman blogger and author of The Jack of Kent blog In May 2010, Paul Chambers was convicted at Doncaster Magistrates’ Court of a single offence under section 127(1) of the Communications Act 2003 in respect of sending over a public electronic communications network a message [...]

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One of the pleasures of law blogging and twitter

It only took me a year to post it (mea culpa)…and the British postal service took four weeks to deliver it from Battersea to New York… but I am delighted that my *Social Media Maven Pronounces 2010*  F**kArt  finally reached my fellow law blogger Scott Greenfield – a  New York defense lawyer (sic) and author [...]

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Rive Gauche: The Era of the high-rolling criminal barrister is over!

Friday has arrived rather more quickly than I anticipated, but that being so… it must be time for a view from ‘Rive Gauche’. It has been an interesting week.  The Daily Mail was able to publish a judge friendly story with this nonsense… Judge’s anger after three scaffolders make £70,000 injury claim for van crash [...]

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The Twlawyer may have an *app* to tweet when he is asleep… but there are dangers!

The Twlawyer really needs an *app* to stop him sleeping…

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Lawcast 182: Emily Allbon, Law Librarian at City Law School on research skills, law resources and social media

Lawcast 182:  Emily Allbon, Law Librarian at City Law School on research skills, law resources and social media Today I am talking to Emily Allbon, law Librarian at City University and the editor of the excellent Lawbore resource website.  Research skills lie at the root of all legal work, whether in academe or practice, so [...]

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Law Review: London Legal Walk – A penguin solves cold cases? – Law schools need to manage ‘great expectations’

On May 17th 2010 4,500 lawyers and associates walked in the 2010 London Legal sponsored walk raising over £400,000 for legal advice charities in London and the South East. The walk was led by a host of legal stars including the Lord Chief Justice, The Master of the Rolls, The Attorney General, The Solicitor General, [...]

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Breaking News: Is PM Dave Cameron The Stig? – “The Bugger, bugged”

The actor Hugh Grant has pulled off a great story on #Metgate, #Phonehacking et al. In the wake of recent admissions by The News of the World that their journos (and others?) appear to have been taking too great an interest in mobile phone messages….and ‘modern surveillance technology and techniques’,  Hugh Grant has a great [...]

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Law Review: History – The European Arrest Warrant – Human Rights – Cyclists who kill

This new series by Obiter J on English legal history is a good read: Our legal heritage – No.1 – Early times and the Anglo-Saxon period On a slightly more modern note, I was a bit baffled by this rather discouraging  research in The Guardian: Judges are more lenient after taking a break, study finds [...]

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Muttley Dastardly LLP (Episode 20): Hugo de Vertback on the Vickers Report for Reform of the Banking Sector

PRESS RELEASE (EMBARGOED UNTIL YOUR FEE PAYMENT CLEARS FOR VALUE) Hugo de Vertback, Partner and Head of Capital and Private Wealth, Muttley Dastardly LLP – The Vickers Report for Reform of the Banking Sector In the early morning of Monday 11th April, a group of hitherto unknown men and women – unknown outside City circles [...]

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