The summer (ha ha) is a time when I often find that work gets in the way of my social life. I am sure I am not alone in that, even if the weather is more like the Falkland Islands (30 years on) than what we expect of a reasonably temperate island to the north… Read More: To hell in a handcart »
Litigation lawyers and others with regular dealings before the High Court in England and Wales will be familiar with the role of the Master. Essentially, Masters deal with the administrative aspects of a case in order to facilitate its arrival at trial in good order. Our own Senior Master Whitaker is the senior of the… Read More: Master of the Universe »
When I started out writing this blog almost three years ago I confess I did not think I would still be doing it in 2012, still less that I would come to write about soteriology. I admit I had to look it up, having never heard of it before. Apparently the word comes from the… Read More: Nirvana »
You could be forgiven for thinking that the camera man had a dirty lens, if you saw any of the pictures of Venus “transiting” the sun last week. We are becoming more attuned to astronomical phenomena these days with attention being drawn to eclipses, sunspots and craters on moons orbiting Jupiter more regularly than in… Read More: Life on Venus, Dull and Boring »
After some of the most miserable weather I can remember at this time of year it was something of a relief to fly off to Santa Barbara, California earlier this month to attend my second conference held by the Litigation Counsel of America. On this occasion I was also accompanied by my colleague Naj Bueno.… Read More: California dreamin’ »
I enjoyed my life as a commercial litigation lawyer. Early in my career, I learned that the most important person in my working life was not the client, important as the client clearly was, nor the partner for whom I worked, although it was certainly important to have a good working relationship with him (in… Read More: Cooperation does not mean collaboration »
The Great Mosque in Cordoba in Southern Spain is one of the wonders of the modern world. It is not that new, of course, dating from 756 AD when the Caliph of Damascus set up his court in Cordoba and constructed the mosque on the site of an earlier Roman Temple of Janus which had… Read More: Globalisation »
With a backward glance to the phrase widely used by President Clinton’s campaign team about the importance of the economy to the US electorate in 1992, in contrast to the campaign of the incumbent President Bush (the first) which relied on achievements in other areas such as foreign policy, I was interested to read the… Read More: It’s information governance, stupid »
I remember what happened to each of the six wives of King Henry V111 by way of the doggerel: “Divorced, beheaded, died, Divorced, beheaded, survived.” This is not the time or the place to go into details! It is sufficient to say that after many years on the throne, married to Catherine of Aragon, the… Read More: Considered, deferred, denied »
Jeffrey Stern, Esq. of New Jersey law firm Stern Law LLC reports on a recent decision of a Pennsylvania court (Gallagher v. Urbanovich, No. 2010 – 33418, C.P. Mont. Co. Feb. 27, 2012) where the judge allowed a man claiming he was sucker-punched during a work-sponsored soccer game to investigate the Facebook page of his alleged… Read More: Sucker punch »