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Book recommendation: ‘Facts and Figures 2011/12′

Now in its 16th edition, this collection of tables enables you to effortlessly calculate special damages and claims for loss of earnings in personal injury cases. Facts & Figures 2011/12: Brings together all the information in one volume, to assist you in assessing special damages information quickly, easily and efficiently Provides access to the latest, [...]

February 1, 2012   Posted in: Books  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

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

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

Why does so much domestic violence go unreported?

As the Detective Inspector leading a specialist domestic abuse unit in Brighton and Hove, my primary role is to manage the risk posed to domestic abuse victims across the city. The most recent figures (2010) show that there were 3,359 domestic abuse crimes and incidents reported to police in Brighton and Hove in a year; [...]

January 16, 2012   Posted in: Opinion  2 Comments

Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons, 16th 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 16, 2012   Posted in: Cartoons  No Comments

Weekend video: ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’

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January 14, 2012   Posted in: Video  No Comments

PR & Marketing for Solicitors

Public relations, marketing and advertising are relatively new concepts to the struggling, traditional legal services sector.   Solicitors practices really need help to survive, from someone who knows the legal services market and also has marketing expertise within it.   So, this year, Nicola Matheson-Durrant, Director of the Family Law Clinic, (love them or loathe them!) will be providing [...]

January 12, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments