Podcast: Tricia Chatteron, Director, College of Law North West Region.
The opening of the new College of Law Branch in Manchester and what it will be like to study there.
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HRH The Prince of Wales wearing a leek on St David’s Day. (BBC picture)
One presumes, not without reason to do so, that the leek is organic? HRH is wearing a Household Cavalry tie, as far as I can see - understandably, given that he was picking up Prince Harry who is an officer in [...]
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Quite a busy week in the news… so, today, I have a mix of text, podcasts and even a bit of film.
First, I talk with Carl Gardner, author of the Head of Legal Blog, about the need for a national DNA database. We then have a look at the political situation in [...]
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Last weekend I was writing Blawg Review #141 for the travelling carnival of the blawgers. This weekend I find myself visiting a Family Law website, The Law Offices of Fetman, Garland & Associates Ltd. I know nothing about Family Law despite my various excursions into the state of holy matrimony - but, thanks [...]
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Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d & thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred
[Blawg Review 141 was published slightly early after email exchange between myself and Ed of Blawg Review]
Welcome Bienvenu Wilkommen Benvenuto Bienvenido [...]
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I survived the night after my bout of bird ‘flu and walked down to the Hothouse Cafe for espresso and a read of the papers. This morning it was - The Mirror and The Independent. It was still dark, but it usually is at this time of year when I go for breakfast.
A quick [...]
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As we edge ever closer to the festival of mammon and excess, Saturday 22nd was the Winter Solstice - the shortest day - I have had a ‘Damascus’ moment. I am a news junkie… I am addicted to blogging. I even managed to exceed John Bolch’s Family Lore score of 62% on an [...]
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A resourceful German restauranteur has come up with ‘Smoking point’ to enable smokers to remain inside at restaurants and pubs while enjoying a smoke. He has made several holes in the wall of his restaurant.
So… Christmas has arrived. Fortunately, The Bollo has decided to open for three hours on Christmas Day. This [...]
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I was not able to do a Saturday review…
Lord Falconer, Head of Legal reports, is against the extension of detention to 42 days. The Attorney General of the web is puzzled about this death bed conversion and speculates on whether Falconer has sorted out his pension ‘issues’.
Geeklawyer gets mauled by a Leopard - [...]
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Private Eye, as usual, hits the spot: “New Anonymous Donor Shock” (Eye)
S58 Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 makes it reasonably clear, given that the Labour Party has not returned the illegal donation within the 30 day time limit, that “The court may, on an application made by the Commission, order the [...]
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At 4.30 am this morning I looked out of the window to see frost on car windscreens. It was quiet. Christmas is but a month away. It was time to consider my annual E-xmascard. Not having any children or wife to photograph as a festive family group outside my Staterooms (not that [...]
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In a week where we have had a High Court judge telling a Saudi Sheik (Below), he could choose “to depart on his flying carpet” to escape paying costs, but that he should be in court so that “every grain of sand is sifted” and that his evidence was gelatinous…like Turkish Delight, it is difficult [...]
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The News of The World reports that Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair now has to explain away a £6 million fraud on the part of Met officers racking up private spending on their police issue AMEX cards. Some ‘three thousand cards’ are to be scrutinised for evidence of misuse. Two cops have already [...]
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Laughing all the way to the bank?
Possibly not, if Gordon Bore gets his way. Lord Falconer of Thoroton, past Minister for the Millenium Dome and former Lord Chancellor, is not at all happy with the pension arrangements being offered by Bore. Having left practice at the Bar (reputedly on earnings of £500,00 p.a.) [...]
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Today is Saturday. The clocks go back at 2.00 am. I’ve decided to trial a “Saturday Review” with various elements containing the real, the surreal, the bizarre and something for readers to do, should they wish to do them. It may work. It may not. We shall see.
Let me start with the [...]
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