Lawyers
The View from 22 — Judgement day, rumour-mongering in the Twitter age and long-awaited dirty tactics from No.10
Shakespeare once wrote ‘kill all the lawyers’, and as Harry Mount describes in this week’s Spectator cover feature, you could be forgiven for thinking Chris Grayling has made a similar… Continue reading
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The View from 22 — Rough justice and autumn statement special
Many of the great British institutions have taken a pounding in recent times. The BBC, Fleet Street, politicians but is it now time for lawyers to take some flack? In… Continue reading
5 CommentsArsenal Behaving Badly: Fancy That!
As world-class moaners it’s not a surprise that Arsenal football club behave in this fashion but it’s depressing to see their groundless whingeing tolerated by a judge, even a Spanish… Continue reading
10 CommentsMore questions for UKBA
The Home Office and the UK Border Agency (UKBA) completed the review into the asylum seekers legacy backlog ahead of schedule at the end of last month. 450,000 case files… Continue reading
15 CommentsYou couldn’t make it up: Crook freed from jail to look after his five kids
Sometimes I wonder if the judiciary and the human rights culture are just trying to make Richard Littlejohn’s columns look understated. Today’s story in the Daily Mail about how a… Continue reading
47 CommentsWhat Ken Clarke should have said
The Ken Clarke media storm continues. But, talk to lawyers and they complain that the Justice Secretary did not have sufficient command of his brief to redirect Victoria Derbyshire’s line… Continue reading
8 CommentsThe government has a problem with lawyers
The government’s strained relationship with the Civil Service is a recurring story at the moment. Much of the disquiet seems to be the normal tit for tat exchanges immortalised in… Continue reading
11 CommentsThree Cheers for John Hemming MP
Come the revolution, you’re supposed to hang the lawyers first. Which is fine. But it might be better to start with the judges. Specifically those that are happy to grant… Continue reading
17 CommentsTipping the scales against legal aid
Britain’s legal aid system continues to fail, and should be abolished for virtually all compensation claims. Reformed Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs for short) should take its place. Those are the… Continue reading
10 CommentsCarter-Ruck’s Own Goal
I make no particular comment about this chatty stroll through the ways and means of getting an injunction, save to note that it was written by Nigel Tait, a partner… Continue reading
3 CommentsUnder these criteria, the legal case against the repayment of expenses is unanswerable
Sir Thomas Legg’s statement is yet to be published, but I’ve trawled through the internet and made some calls to discover its contents. It is plain that Sir Thomas has… Continue reading
30 CommentsRejoice, rejoice, rejoice
The Guardian is reporting that, “Within the last hour, Trafigura’s lawyers Carter-Ruck, abandoned an attempt to prevent the Guardian from reporting proceedings in parliament which revealed its existence.” This is… Continue reading
24 CommentsBritish Press Banned from Reporting Parliament. Seriously.
This time, perhaps even the lawyers have gone too far. It’s hard to recall, even in the long history of appalling gagging orders, a more disgraceful injunction than this: The… Continue reading
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