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Book recommendation: ‘I Have to Move My Car: Tales of Unpersuasive Advocates and Injudicious Judges’ by Lord Pannick

“There are law books about constructive trusts, the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964 and the rule in Foss v Harbottle. This is not one of them. David Pannick QC has always been much more interested in unpersuasive advocates and injudicious judges. In this collection of his fortnightly columns from The Times, David Pannick passes judgement [...]

May 16, 2012   Posted in: Books  No Comments

Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons, 14th May 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 [...]

May 14, 2012   Posted in: Cartoons  No Comments

Weekend video: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’

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May 12, 2012   Posted in: Video  No Comments

Book recommendation: ‘Theodore Boone: The Accused’ by John Grisham

“Theodore Boone is the thirteen year old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers. He certainly never expected to be the victim of crime himself. But then his bike is vandalised, he’s attacked while doing his homework and, worst of all, framed for a robbery. When stolen computer equipment turns up in [...]

May 9, 2012   Posted in: Books  No Comments

Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons, 7th May 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 [...]

May 7, 2012   Posted in: Cartoons  No Comments

Weekend video: ‘Michael Mansfield QC on Legal Aid cuts’

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May 5, 2012   Posted in: Video  No Comments

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April 30, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons, 30th April 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 [...]

April 30, 2012   Posted in: Cartoons  No Comments

Weekend video: ‘Mitchell and Webb – Slightly Less Than Two Drinks’

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April 28, 2012   Posted in: Video  No Comments

Book recommendation: ‘A Week in December’ by Sebastian Faulks

“A vicious satire on modern life.” — Daily Telegraph, review in the best of the recent financial fiction “The novel is cleverly plotted and eminently readable…” –The Sunday Times “Faulks never writes a hackneyed or lazy sentence, polishing each with care” — Independent on Sunday “a zeitgeisty novel about the effects of greed, celebrity, the [...]

April 25, 2012   Posted in: Books  No Comments