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Zoo Dolphin Deaths ‘Caused By Party Drugs’

Two dolphins, named Shadow and Chelmers, died at Connyland Zoo in Lipperswil, Switzerland last November.  A toxicology report made available to Swiss media has shown that the heroin substitute, Buprenorphin, was present in the animal’s urine. A weekend rave party hosted by the zoo, which was attended by many, was held near the dolphins’ training pool.  At first, cause [...]

May 15, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

LA Slaps Speed Limit On ‘Bombing’ Skateboards

As the new “Bombing” hype gains popularity on the streets of California, authorities have been doing all they can to prevent impending disasters caused by this risky fad.. “Bombing” is the practice of darting downhill at high speeds, sometimes while weaving in and out of traffic. Now skateboarders have to abide a 25 kph limit [...]

May 8, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Personal Injury Brief Update Law Journal – over 600 articles now online!

For almost seven years now we’ve been running the Personal Injury Brief Update Law Journal which is written by over fifty barristers and other experts and has about ten new articles a month. The main Journal is subscription with a single price for the whole office and you can also sign up for a free newsletter which has monthly [...]

May 2, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Founder of GGW demands apology from senator for denying internship

Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis wants an apology from Sen. Mark Pryor after the politician called his once-in-a-lifetime internship on Capitol Hill a hoax, Francis said he won the internship for $2,500 on a private charity auction site called BiddingforGood.com. He said that “It was for charity. I was trying to do a good [...]

May 1, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Sponsored post: 5 of the biggest modern threats to British road users’ safety

Did you know that every six seconds someone is killed or seriously injured on the world’s roads? According to Unicef and the World Health Organisation, road crashes are the leading global cause of death for young people aged 10-24. Such statistics are the reason why road safety associations are keen that the government and the [...]

April 30, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Social media dinotopia in law law land

This article was first published in The Global Legal Post 27 April 2012 entitled “Connect and survive” and is reproduced with kind permission. Social media is not just a place for people to share their holiday snaps or keep up with celebrity gossip, says Chrissie Lightfoot. Business lawyers need to get chatting and tweeting or risk extinction. [...]

April 27, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Minister claims exempt from traffic tickets

A judge in Edmonton, Canada has rejected a challenge against three traffic tickets launched by a woman who claims that she is exempt from the law and is only bound by God, the Queen of England and the Constitution Act of 1982. 52 year old Catherine Flamond had argued in a written Charter notice that [...]

April 24, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Are conveyancers a cursed lot?

The conveyancing profession has entered a tumultuous phase with a deep slump in the housing market thanks to the prevailing economic conditions with little hope of revival in the near future; threat of outsourcing of work to cheaper locations such as India and the Philippines; e-conveyancing enabling electronic processing of applications for registration..Add to this [...]

April 23, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Ticket-wielding Vietnamese traffic cop clings on to moving bus for dear life

In Vietnam, a determined traffic officer held on for dear life while hanging on the wiper blade of the bus of a road-rage driver in Hanoi. Traffic Officer Nguyen Manh Phan, was spotted by other drivers hanging on to front of the bus after refusing to let the driver get away without paying his fine. [...]

April 17, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Sponsored post: PPI; Where Are We Now?

Recent developments in the PPI debacle seem to be finally putting a lid on the banks’ persistent mis-selling. It’s been a long, hard road for consumers since Which? first cited PPI’s expense and exclusions as reasons to avoid purchasing the insurance in 1998. The Story So Far… Several years after Which? first raised concerns, in [...]

April 16, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments