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Being negative about law – the spiel I did on law and barriers to innovation
"On Tuesday I spoke at a panel debate organised by Vodafone GC Rosemary Martin, focusing on innovation, diversity and the law, having been invited to give the hard-nosed view on how the profession operates. The slightly more diplomatic members of the...
25 May 2012 | 09:43
Courting publicity? The Supreme Court’s open door policy
"Three things in particular tend to surprise new visitors to the three-year-old Supreme Court. The first is that there are no secret tunnels to Parliament, which comes as a great disappointment to many school groups. The second is that the Justices s...
24 May 2012 | 13:20
Blogging, SEO and law firms - is it time to get on board?
"Of course, a blog may not be the answer to all your problems and it mightn’t be appropriate for every firm. But to assume that blogging is only for smaller firms is a mistake..."
24 May 2012 | 13:19 | 2 comments
Seesaw commercial law - a tipping point for law firm commercial departments?
Clients who five years ago had no in-house lawyers now have one or two. Clients who five years ago had one or two in-housers now have six or seven. Clients therefore keep most regular commercial work in-house and even when they do outsource it, client...
02 May 2012 | 18:02
Was Jeremy Hunt’s handling of the News Corp-BSkyB deal unlawful?
This week's big news was the relevation at the Leveson Inquiry of the e-mails from Frederic Michel to his NewsCorp colleagues about his contact with Jeremy Hunt, or at least with Jeremy Hunt’s special adviser, while Hunt was preparing to decide whet...
25 Apr 2012 | 15:22
New media, new rules - does the Ched Evans case highlight a need for new laws?
"Law isn't a shield preventing a bad thing happening - it cannot stop people behaving in a certain way; it can only simply prescribe a punishment or remedy should people behave in a certain way..."
23 Apr 2012 | 13:31 | 1 comment
The real hunger games - CARE's GC on the West Africa food crisis
Driving from Niger's capital Niamey to the town of Konni for five hours through the sand-swept, arid Sahel region, I listened to the audio book The Hunger Games. The novel opens with a scene of bleak poverty in a post-apocalyptic town called District ...
13 Apr 2012 | 16:49
Secret evidence proposals – time to reflect
On 19 October 2011 the Government published its proposals to extend closed procedures, as set out in its Justice and Security Green Paper (and covered by the post on this blog). On 1 December 2011 I expressed the following concerns
12 Apr 2012 | 17:16
Jail for Muamba Twitter abuse - was 56 days imprisonment justified?
Liam Stacey - a 21-year-old student - was recently sentenced by a District Judge (Magistrates' Court) to 56 days imprisonment for his tweets in relation to Bolton Wanderers footballer Fabrice Muamba. The Guardian reported that Stacey entered a guilty ...
11 Apr 2012 | 14:51 | 1 comment
Terror suspects can be extradited to the US, human rights court rules
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Chamber, has found that five men accused of serious terrorist activities can be extradited from the UK to the US to face trial. They had argued that their Article 3 rights (Article 3...
11 Apr 2012 | 14:32 | 1 comment
Not so special relationship - overhauling the 'unbalanced' UK/US extradition treaty
Earlier today the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee published a report on the US-UK extradition treaty. A further report on the operation of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) is expected later this year. Both reports emerge from curious circu...
30 Mar 2012 | 17:34
QualitySolicitors: The Movie - the £15m ad campaign
So at last we got to see what private equity investment, Saatchi & Saatchi and a £15m advertising budget has bought QualitySolicitors (QS) - a TV advert for legal services the like of which I certainly haven't seen before, a world away from the 'Had ...
30 Mar 2012 | 16:13
Privacy and injunctions report – steady as she goes on privacy, last chance for non-statutory media regulation
The Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions, set up last July following 'Super-injunction Spring', has finally published its report...
29 Mar 2012 | 14:17
Without the Convention on Human Rights, our human rights depend on what our government says they are
"It is important to accept the possibility that our government may try to restrict our human rights. Secret justice, abolition of jury trials, reducing access to justice; these are not figments of an Orwellian dystopia, they are a very real actuality...
22 Mar 2012 | 13:57
Flood v Times Newspapers - Supreme Court allows 'Reynolds' appeal
"In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court this week allowed the appeal of Times Newspapers Limited against a decision of the Court of Appeal which had held that held that it could not rely on Reynolds qualified privilege..."
22 Mar 2012 | 11:15
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