Most often experienced in family law in all its excruciating banality in the form of facebook mudslinging between exes, this post from Justin McShane reminds us that what we post online can be incriminating in oh so many ways. Be careful what you post. It may just come back to haunt you…Being tagged by a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘law’
Legal Costs
Posted in stuff, tagged costs, court, law on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Short piece on ‘Today’ on Tues morning about costs in civil cases. I switched on as a clip of Lord Justice Judge opining about the state of civil justice was part way through. Evan Davis moved onto an interview with Bridget Prentice. Oh goody, I thought as I drove to court, something relevant to my line of [...]
Behind Closed Doors – Judicial Shenanigans
Posted in stuff, tagged law, legal news, misconduct on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Guardian has lost in it’s attempt to secure details of the identities of Judges found guilty of misconduct or who have been reprimanded. I think maybe I’m missing something because my response to this was a bemused ‘hunh?’. . The Information Tribunal making the decision apparently cited the example of a very senior judge who [...]
Top 100 Most Pointless Lists
Posted in stuff, tagged law on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Times has published a list of the top 100 ‘most powerful lawyers’ here. What a stupidly vague and pointless piece of space filling that was. Must have been a slow legal news day or something. It’s not even what it purports to be, since famous / notorious / good at working the media / working in [...]
Beta That
Posted in stuff, tagged law, legal research on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
@kevinokeefe has been tweeting about this new tool: www.lexisweb.com – currently in beta and hence free, for the time being. Have yet to seriously play with it but it is another weapon in the arsenal of information management / search tools. this however is not the primary focus of blogging discussion about the ‘BIG, BAD’ Lexis Nexis [...]
open justice
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family, law, news, openness on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Guardian reports that a newspaper is appealing a decision to allow the identity of a man convicted of child pornography offences to remain anonymous in order to protect his daughters from possible bullying. The Court of Appeal will consider this matter, unusually with a five Judge panel – no doubt because of the public interest in the [...]