Archive for January, 2012

Cat Chaos Grounds Canadian Flight for Hours

What would happen if a cat escaped and decided to run around a huge commercial flight to Canada? It’s utter chaos. This is what the passengers of Air Canada Flight 603 from Halifax to Toronto experienced when a cat accidentally escaped its carrying case and decided to run all over the plane. According to the [...]

January 31, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Issues with the person next door!

Problems with one’s neighbours mainly arise as a result of difficulties in human relationships but will call for legal intervention when it becomes unsolvable between individuals concerned. Amazingly people do put up with inconveniences if they are friendly to one another. When relationships are strained even minute problems tend to get blown out of proportion! [...]

January 30, 2012   Posted in: News, Opinion  No Comments

Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons, 30th January 2012

This cartoon is by Alex Williams who draws the Queen’s Counsel cartoons for The Times and in numerous books including Lawyers Uncovered. He also does the cartoons for BabyBarista and has had two more excellent books published recently: 101 Ways to Leave the Law and 101 Uses for a Useless Banker. He offers almost all of [...]

January 30, 2012   Posted in: Cartoons  No Comments

Weekend video: ”Jerusalem’ by Jez Butterworth’

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January 28, 2012   Posted in: Video  No Comments

IT Law: Astrazeneca UK v IBM [2011] EWHC 306 (TCC)

This case concerned the terms of a ‘Master Services Agreement’, which required the parties to provide various services after termination, until the end of an Exit Period. The parties applied to the court for declarations as to the construction of various terms within the contract, including the term ‘infrastructure’ and ‘associated systems’. The judgment, by [...]

January 27, 2012   Posted in: Case Reports  No Comments

Financial Services Law: FSA v Mahmood, Agha, Anjum and Kumarans Silks Ltd 5/1/12

In separate actions, the FSA issued final notices cancelling registration of a number of businesses as small payment institutions following the failure by Mr Mahmood to comply with regulatory requirements. Share this article:

January 26, 2012   Posted in: Case Reports  No Comments

Book recommendation: ‘A Certain Justice’ by P D James

Although A Certain Justice begins with news of a murder, the victim isn’t set to die for another four weeks. Publicly respected but privately loathed, Venetia Aldridge has far more enemies than a brilliant London criminal lawyer should–and at least one of them is determined to do her in. Venetia plies her superior trade in [...]

January 25, 2012   Posted in: Books  No Comments

11 Day Jail Sentence, the price to pay for a Woman with Overdue Books

Library Book Penalties – we often ignore this type of penalty, tagging it as petty and irrelevant. But the that’s a different story for the people of Montreal. Overdue books are a serious business. Just ask the woman who was arrested this week in Shawinigan after she refused to pay the penalty of $235 for [...]

January 24, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons, 23rd January 2012

This cartoon is by Alex Williams who draws the Queen’s Counsel cartoons for The Times and in numerous books including Lawyers Uncovered. He also does the cartoons for BabyBarista and has had two more excellent books published recently: 101 Ways to Leave the Law and 101 Uses for a Useless Banker. He offers almost all of [...]

January 23, 2012   Posted in: Cartoons  No Comments

Colère by Cassou

This picture is by the French legal artist known as Cassou. You can see more on her blog at Blog de Cassou. Share this article:

January 22, 2012   Posted in: Art  No Comments