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• Postcard from the Shires of Tory England

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  Dear Reader, I write this weekend from Norfolk… metaphorically speaking… the seat of Sir Jeremy Bagge of  Stradsett hall, self appointed leader of the Taliban Turnips – the greatest foe the slick new Tories led by David Cameron have yet had to face.  All will be made clear later. I have decided, this ...
  18 hours ago

• Rive Gauche: Friday 13th Singing in the rain edition…

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  A short Rive Gauche today … I leave for London on the 7.30 am train to record a podcast with Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, for the College of Law Inside Track podcast series I have been doing for them. RollonFriday – their ‘news’ always worth a look on a Friday – reports: “Things are ...
  3 days ago

• A visit to the Police Station….

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
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  3 days ago

• Police, Camera, Action….

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  Today I read three different stories about the Police.  The first is serious – the other two mildly absurd. I read on SimonCollister.com a post about the Metropolitan Police and  the Evening Standard “The Met has now requested that all imagery of its officers hiding or obscuring their badges be removed ...
  3 days ago

• The law of unintended consequences….lizard gods and control orders.

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  It is, I suppose,  quite possible that somewhere out there, in The City or the regions, there is a lawyer who believes that god is a lizard and  who also happens to be a psychic. Last week environmental campaigner Tim Nicholson successfully argued that green beliefs were the same as religious beliefs  for the ...
  4 days ago

• Libel reform: Free speech is not for sale…

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  Jack of Kent – a skeptical and liberal look at law by writer and lawyer Allen Green – considers reform of libel… A very interesting read.
  4 days ago

• Bar Council: An excellent speech by Desmond Browne QC

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  Access to Justice – Justice for All? Around 500 people were present at the Bar Council Conference on Saturday which has been judged a great success. The keynote speech was delivered by Sir Nicolas Bratza, following the opening address by Chairman of the Bar, Desmond Browne QC. Desmond Browne’s speech, if you ...
  4 days ago

• Privacy, secrecy and putting the clock back twenty years

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  The Independent reports: Ministry of Justice figures indicate there are 3,808 judges in England and Wales and 205 or 5.4 per cent are Freemasons. There are also 29,702 magistrates, of whom 1,900 or 6.4 per cent are Freemasons. While I am more than happy to go along with Jack Straw’s statement … “no ...
  5 days ago

• They put a man to death… he died at 9.11 last night

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  Why, when we have bravely and nobly progressed so far in the recent past to create a decent, humane society, must we perpetuate the senseless barbarism of official murder? – Abe Fortas (1910-1982), former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, New York Times. The DC sniper was executed at 9.00 pm last night. Reports on ...
  5 days ago

• Our sceptred isle: another great day for British law and justice…

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  As the prime minister and Alistair Darling continue to empty the coffers at the Treasury and the Bank of England quantitatively eases yet more money into the banking system, it would appear that ‘Question Time Jack”, our Lord Chancellor and Minister of Justice, not to be left out in providing absolute powers ...
  6 days ago

• No sex please… and a fine end to a pet chicken.

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  One of the benefits of starting my work at around 4.30 am each day is that by late afternoon I can faff about.  Today,  Chef Charon decided that it was time to cook a chicken. It was, I suppose, the natural ending to the pet chicken but I did, at least, offer it a last request.  Not surprisingly she asked for a ...
  6 days ago

• Blawg Review #237 – Christian Metcalfe of Property Law blog

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  Blawg Review #237 – Christian Metcalfe of Property Law blog “Today’s single most important political principle, the right to live in a participatory democracy, comes down to us not from the slave-owning societies of Athens and Rome, or from the pleasant estates in France where Rousseau and Montaigne ...
  6 days ago

• College of Law Inside Track podcast: Frances Nicholson, Training and Recruitment Manager, Halliwells – Women in Law

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  Frances Nicholson, Training and Recruitment Manager, Halliwells – Women in Law I talk to Frances Nicholson, recruitment and training manager at Halliwells, about women in the profession. Frances considers whether the so-called ‘glass ceiling’ still exists and gives her view on the demands and practical ...
  1 week ago

• Westminster Bridge: A hidden Da Vinci code metaphor for MPs…Parliament?

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  I do not know who took this photograph – but props to whoever did…. I found this on Twitter this morning. colmmu http://twitpic.com/ov76e – RT @ spacemonki a photo of Westminster Bridge … one ponders the intention to represent the neighbouring inhabitants…
  1 week ago

• Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimum pro patria bibere. Ergo, bibamus pro salute patriae” Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori is a line from the Roman lyrical poet Horace’s Odes (III.2.13). The line has been used frequently in war poetry – most ...
  1 week ago

• Postcard from The Staterooms-on-Sea: Ghosts, Lemon cake and wine edition

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  Dear Reader, You may well find that drinking a glass of Argentine Malbec on a Saturday afternoon at 4.00 pm with a slice of lemon cake a strange thing to do and, more often than not, I would agree with you. But today, I made a bacon, egg, mushroom and onion pie (some people prefer the French word quiche) and a ...
  1 week ago

• The Law business and the business of law…

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  Will law firms be able to attract third party investors in the brave new world or will existing financial services business develop their own businesses by providing legal services or provide law services from scratch under their brands? Well… to be perfectly honest, if I knew the full answer to that now,  I ...
  1 week ago

• Rive Gauche: Cock ups, being a cock and on ‘The Square’.

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  It is Friday, so there isn’t much legal news – journos having hyperventilated themselves into a state of collapse earlier in the week are, possibly, recovering from Thursday night – the new Friday . So, in keeping with this spirit, I thought I would start a weekly section and being a ‘european’ with a ...
  1 week ago

• Tonight may be bonfire tonight… but tonight… I’m all about Europe!

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
    Bonjour Willkommen bienvenue… as we say down on the River Medway….. but in fact… we say Hiya!  You alright? … which I quite like… and have found myself saying as I greet the taxi driver who whisks me from the Staterooms-on-Sea to Chatham Railway station. It is wonderfully ironic that the Tories, who ...
  1 week ago

• Blawg Review #236 – Halloween Edition by Eric Turkewitz

  
  Charon QC — Authority: 522
  Eric Turkewitz writes a ‘mean’ Blawg Review … and I mean that in the Cowboy Western ‘mean an ornery’ sense…of the word I heard as a child when I was transfixed by Rawhide, Gunsmoke et al.  From a Marathon themed Blawg Review, written by him some time back and which was superb, to the dark depths of ...
  1 week ago

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