The ‘Jag Rouge’ or Charonmobile….
My tour of UK to find out what lawyers and others think about our legal system begins on Thursday 1st November.
The first report will be in the form of a podcast with Andrew Hopper QC on the regulatory framework. Andrew Hopper QC will share his experience and shine a bright light on the workings of the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
I plan to do five podcasts with lawyers in London to start the tour and then gradually move from the South-East through the country. A schedule will be published soon for the first section of the tour through to March 2013. The tour will end back in London when I plan to do a detailed survey of legal practice in London and The City.
Together with the many lawyers who have kindly agreed to contribute by acting as ‘roving reporters’ I shall start publishing background text, analysis and comment – an important feature of the entire project. The tour will take at least a year to complete.
All reports will be published simultaneously on my Charon QC blog and on the new Charon UK Tour blog (The latter will enable me to archive the reports and order them for easy reading and access.)
AND Thanks.. to all the sponsors who have helped to make this project a reality!
For those interested in kit and gizmos…
The Vehicle: Jaguar 3.2 Sport (1995) – remarkably cheap (£1050 including Satnav fitting and the car is in first rate condition.) It would appear that people just don’t want old cars. The dealer told me he was selling Jags of this age and quality for £3k+ a year or so back. My good fortune! The car does about 30mpg – roughly the same as a camper van.
Recording equipment for Podcasts: Zoom H4N Recorder/microphone, Sennheiser wireless clip microphone for use for podcasts and televised sections, I am purchasing a fourth hypercardidoid microphone next week and will update the post when I have chosen the microphone and rig I purchase.
Televised recordings: Sony Z1 HD and a Sony Handycam HDR-CX190
Camera: Nikon Digital SLR D3100
Computer: iMac 24″, Macbook Air and iPad 3
So.. the tour is about to begin. I am looking forward to it and I very much hope you will take part by commenting – or, meeting me as I travel the length and breadth of our sceptred isle!
Jon Harman – has designed an advert for the tour – please do click – he has done great work!
Van Rouge from Jon Harman on Vimeo.
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Very M’Lord Fatso of Hull….and hopefully CooperQC will be appalled at something so un-green…
It reminds me rather of Morse. You’ll look very much at home when you roll into Oxford.
So will you kip down on the back seat in a sleeping bag?
I take it you will be stopping off in Birmingham and Coventry then (home of “the Jag”? Car looks very stylish for a 1995 model and is probably much better value than the tatty old heaps which normally get involved in construction and use offences in the Magistrates’ Courts….)