One of the oldest Cistercian monasteries in Europe, founded in 1118, by St Bernard, sits in a marshy valley near the small town of Montbard in Burgundy. It was here in the medicine garden of Fontenay Abbey that I found myself on a gloriously sunny day at the end of last month. I must confess that… Read More: Old Macdonald had a farm »
In which Kanga and baby Roo come to the forest, and Piglet has a bath In an effort to avoid the increasingly tiresome subject of super injunctions leading to a spat between the judiciary in the stern figure of the Lord Chief Justice no less and that well known tribune of the people in the… Read More: The Aha moment »
In 2010, about 8 years after filing for Chapter 11 protection, Polaroid entered into a contract with Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. Polaroid used to be the film company of the future, famous for its instant film cameras. Its eventual bankruptcy in 2008 was widely attributed to the failure by management to anticipate the effect of… Read More: No flash in the pan »
When I first started writing this blog way back in August 2009, I decided that the purpose was to give a partly serious but also partly light hearted view on the world of e-discovery/disclosure. There are, out there, any number of learned and serious articles, blogs and tweets on all aspects of e-disclosure and some are… Read More: Nailed to the perch »
Of all the poems I was made to learn at school, few have remained with me as much as Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur. I cannot help but be moved by the opening lines: “So all day long the noise of battle rolled, among the mountains by the winter sea”. Lovers of legend will remember how the fatally… Read More: The old order changeth »
My favourite misquotation is “money is the root of all evil” or for those of you with a Latin bent, “radix malorum est cupiditas.” The correct quotation of the words from the King James Bible, 400 years old almost to the day, is in 1 Timothy 6.10. “For the love of money is the root… Read More: Misquoted »
One of the wonders of the Internet is that almost anything you care to look for is there, somewhere! Not just historical facts, political articles, scientific treatises and the like but almost anything you care to think about. Has anyone noticed how many people were away from the office in the past few days? The… Read More: A pointless waste of time »
It is that time of year again at Millnet Towers. Last year, Millnet offered £10,000 worth of processing of electronic documents completely free. As a result, a number of law firms were able to move on pieces of litigation which had previously become stuck because of the costs associated with e-disclosure. Amongst those were two… Read More: Spring cleaning »
Why is a raven like a writing desk? Dreams are like that! Poor Alice was confronted by a dysfunctional tea party where the Hatter ruled the roost, made outrageous personal remarks and asked questions to which there was never an answer and everyone moved randomly around the table trying to disturb the sleeping dormouse in… Read More: Perchance to dream »
On 12th March 1829 undergraduates at the University of Cambridge sent a challenge to their counterparts at Oxford and started a tradition which continues in more or less the same form to this day. If you missed it last Saturday, imagine 16 heavy athletic men, plus a smaller man and a girl, afloat on the… Read More: Dines with dinosaurs »