1-800-FLOWERS Lawsuit: Texas Man’s Dirty Laundry Aired in Public…World! « TheScroogeReport

No doubt this would amount to a breach of the Data Protection Act if it took place in the UK, but I’m also guessing that suing interflora for letting slip to your wife that you’ve bought roses for someone else is unlikely to feature in your local county court anytime soon. And even less likely [...]

Wouldn’t all this money going to litgation be better served to help people in need of their services and products? « All Things Jennifer

Wouldn’t all this money going to litgation be better served to help people in need of their services and products? « All Things Jennifer If Johnson & Johnson think its good PR to sue the Red Cross for using (seriously) a Red Cross on products for sale, they must be nuts. That is SUCH an [...]

Slough takes on giants

Slough has just successfully judicially reviewed the government in relation to the business growth money scheme (the government had wrongly refused to pay out extra funds to slough after it facilitated the growth of two major new businesses in Slough (Tesco Extra in Slough and Royal Mail sorting office in Colnbrook). And goodness only knows [...]

Man Says Hold The Cheese, Claims MCDONALD’S Didn’t; Suing for $10 Million « Anything & Everything

Glad to see my hubby’s fellow West Virginians are also embracing the world of dubious lawsuits…in a state where fast food is a staple, you’ve got to ask yourself whether a person with a severe allergy to cheese ought to take it on trust that the CHEESEburger he has just ordered from someone being paid three [...]

what’s the difference between a barrister and a solicitor?

Barristers and solicitors are all lawyers, but they are different types of lawyers. One is not ‘better’, more experienced or more senior than the other. They have quite different training and expertise and do different types of legal work. The system that operates in England & Wales is a ‘split’ system, where there is a division of [...]

Not Good Enough

This week the response to my request from a London County Court for an urgent interim contact hearing (1/2 day time estimate) was an offer of a slot ‘in December or possibly end of January’. That is just not good enough for a father of a 18 month old child who wants to see his [...]

changes to family assistance orders

from oct 1 amendments to s16 of Children Act 1989 (re: Family Assistance Orders) come into force, and the court will be able to make a family assistance order for up to 12 months duration, and the old requirement that there must be exceptional circumstances for such an order to be made is repealed. This is [...]

Always Saying Goodbye – Weekend Dads

Lovely article in today’s Guardian about the challenges of being a ‘weekend’ dad. And a link to a great new website which will now feature on my blogroll – resources for activities for contact time and tips on how to manage the whole shabang. Really excellent and child-focused. Incidentally, a lot more helpful than the [...]

What exactly does a family barrister do?

Insightful question…Unless you’ve had the misfortune to need a family barrister you most probably don’t have much of a clue what we do. Most people I meet (including my Mum, bless her) don’t have a very clear picture of what barristers do, let alone family barristers. And if your best source is (mainly american) legal [...]

Michael Vick: Sued for 63 Billion or 323 Trillion Dollars? « Dreadnaught

This guy could put us lawyers right out of business… Michael Vick: Sued for 63 Billion or 323 Trillion Dollars? « Dreadnaught