Monday, 23 February 2015

'To Anyone Will We Sell Justice' - The Repudiation of Magna Carta

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This morning the Lord Chancellor trumpeted Magna Carta as one of Britain’s greatest exports.   In one word the failure of the Global Law...
Sunday, 11 January 2015

Old Charter Young Barristers

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My powers of clairvoyance are no better than the next man’s but I would be willing to wager £46.50 (mention hearing fee) that whatever e...
Saturday, 11 October 2014

Justice is performed not a performance: appearance and reality in English justice.

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Legal blogging is an arduous business.   Turn your back for two minutes and such a succession of events occurs that even the thought of mu...
Monday, 1 September 2014

Hearing women's voices

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  As a child (just) of the pre-Internet age I remember as a teenager walking through Hyde Park at the weekend and wandering through the ...
Sunday, 17 August 2014

An Open Letter to Lord Justice Leveson & HH Geoffrey Rivlin QC

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It is incumbent upon anybody with even a passing interest in the proper functioning of the Criminal Justice System (CJS), and frankly that ...
Thursday, 17 July 2014

Judge a man by his actions not his website - Reflection on the Attorney General

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Of many of the appointments made in the Cabinet Reshuffle this week two of the least publicised and celebrated have been those of the ne...
Sunday, 6 July 2014

Equality & Diversity: Not an optional extra.

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When I was  at Eton in the 1990s I thought I knew all about diversity.  After all just in my year group were boys from Nepal, Saudi Arabi...