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Snake On A Plane Pilot Braden Blennerhassett In Emergency Landing In Darwin

An airplane, minutes after take off from Darwin airport, was forced to turn back and make an emergency landing after the Pilot found a snake loose in the cockpit. Air Frontier Pilot Bradden Blennerhasset told reporters that he saw the head of the snake suddenly pop out under the dashboard of his twin-engine plane shortly [...]

April 10, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Don’t mind me, I just like legs.

This article was first published in The Global Legal Post 9 April 2012 entitled “Women Lawyers: A pain in the head” and is reproduced by kind permission. There’s a perception that the glass ceiling has been shattered by successful female lawyers. It’s wrong, I say — women are still smashing their heads and much vital [...]

April 9, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Man Saws Off His Own Foot To Avoid Work

A 56 year old man from Mitterlabill, located in Styria, South of Austria, has sawed of his left foot using a mechanical saw hours before his health check-up. The Police said that Hans Url, unemployed, intentionally sliced off his left foot just above his ankle with the mechanical saw and threw it in the oven [...]

April 3, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Farewell to the oil age

This article was first published in The Global Legal Post 31 March 2012 and is reproduced by kind permission. Law firms can no longer hope to survive on providing legal advice alone. If they are to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven era, they must add value in the data field – as well as being [...]

April 1, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Lawyer shelling: lies, damned lies and collective wisdom

This article was first published in the Law Society Gazette 27th March 2012 and is reproduced by kind permission. In a legal world flush with lies, damned lies and frightening statistics in relation to ‘lawyer shelling’ (my crude terminology for expulsion and even possible extinction of our treasured profession and the comfortable roles we once [...]

March 28, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

US judge rules that you can’t copyright pi

On PI day (14th March), American Judge, Michael H. Simon ruled against a case of copyright infringement by Lars Erickson, a jazz musician, against Michael Blake, a native of Portland, Oregon. Judge Simon said that “Pi is a non-copyrightable fact, and the transcription of pi to music is a non-copyrightable idea.” He added, “The resulting [...]

March 27, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Bolivia coca judge defends divination technique

Shameful. The word used to describe a Bolivian judge after learning that he uses Coca Reading to guide his decision. Judge Gualberto Cusi–a native of the indigenous Aymara community –shared in an interview that he used the traditional divination technique to help guide his judgement. Gualberto Cusi became a member of Bolivia’s Constitutional Tribunal last [...]

March 20, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

Cops find 8-foot stolen chicken

Brent Smith, 36, of Milton, has been charged with possession of stolen property last week as a missing 8 foot chicken was found on his backyard. The search for the giant chicken started in Simcoe, Ontario, when an enormous fiberglass chicken went missing from the front yard of a chicken farm on Brantford Road northeast [...]

March 13, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

The Legalities of Leasehold Ownership

Freehold property ownership is usually more straightforward than leasehold. Freehold ownership includes the building one occupies plus the land on which it is built, for an indefinite period of time. When buying a leasehold house or flat, ownership is limited in most cases to only the building. The land belongs to the freeholder. The ownership [...]

March 12, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments

When Lawyers Become Innovators

One of the issues gaining interest in these somewhat demanding times for lawyers is looking at charging fixed fees for contentious matters; DLA backed LawVest has made this a key part of their offer to business clients; One partner who has been integral to already doing this for some time is Linda Jones who is [...]

March 9, 2012   Posted in: News  No Comments