In the flurry of articles and general excitement over the introduction of the Jackson reforms, I appear to have overlooked a case which was decided by Mr Justice Coulson sitting in the Technology and Construction Court in March this year. Although the hearing took place on March 27th, the judgment in Murray and Stokes v Neil Dowlman… Read More: Murray and Stokes v Neil Dowlman Architecture Limited »
I am an avid reader of the Sunday broadsheets. Try as I might, I cannot bring myself to read them electronically. The enjoyment gained from a stack of newsprint on a Sunday morning outweighs the irritationof the newsprint coming off on my fingers particularly when there is nothing better to do but eat my poached… Read More: Two steps forward »
In 1848, a certain John Russell Bartlett published a Dictionary of Americanisms. Mr Bartlett has it that the phrase slick as a whistle is “a proverbial simile, in common use throughout the United States. To do anything as slick as a whistle, is to do it very smoothly, perfectly, adroitly.” Possibly because I do not… Read More: Slick as a Whistle »
Do you remember Major Tom (David Bowie)? More of him later, but Captain Ron?! To be honest, I have not actually met Captain Ron. However, I know about him because I was having dinner recently in Santa Monica, California at The Galley Restaurant and Bar and found myself being served by one of Captain Ron’s staff in the form… Read More: We have lift off! »
In the most striking example to date of how seriously the judiciary intends to get to grips with the changes to the rules inspired by Lord Justice Jackson, the Master of the Rolls, Lord Dyson, has appointed five Court of Appeal judges to hear all appeals arising out of the reforms. Rupert Jackson had in fact recommended… Read More: The Famous Five »
Called upon to give advice to an excited 27 year old who had just heard she had been offered her dream job and wanted to give her current boss a piece of her finely educated mind, I believe I was able to prevail upon her that that particular approach is almost always doomed to ultimate… Read More: Go Figure »
According to the National Leprechaun Museum, the leprechaun is a mythological Irish character. Usually male and dressed in green, the little man is often a shoemaker providing dancing shoes for fairies. Because fairies like to dance, the leprechaun is kept very busy. In fact this is the best way to catch one. If he is… Read More: Fairy Story? Not if you are Irish! »
April 1st has come and gone once more. This year All Fools’ Day fell on Easter Monday and as such was not a working day for most. Nonetheless, unless you have inhabited a different planet from others for much of the past six months you will know that the new CPR rules about disclosure, costs… Read More: April Fool »
No, this is not a post by a disgruntled North London fan fed up with the inability of Arsene Wenger’s team to win a trophy! We are on much more interesting territory! It appears to me that there has been a lull recently in the flood of articles and comment on predictive coding or computer… Read More: Whither the Arsenal? »
In the fourth and last in the current series of podcasts, Millnet’s Head of Technical Operations, Stuart Clarke, talks to Chris Dale of the E-Disclosure Information Project about types of evidence which have the potential to trip up lawyers who fail to ask the right questions. The speakers are introduced by Millnet director, Charles Holloway.… Read More: Podcast: Evidence to trip up the unwary. »