Earthquake in Indonesia: thousands die, no Britons involved This kind of laconic if self-centered headline has always amused me. We tend to think things are important if they affect us and less so if they do not. On that basis I wonder if we should have been concerned about the recent report from NASA that… Read More »
One of the most striking sights in Nashville, Tennessee is Alan LeQuire’s bronze statue of nine nude figures in the centre of the Music Row roundabout. Apparently the statue caused a certain amount of unease amongst the locals when it was unveiled in 2003 but it is certainly dramatic to view at night especially after… Read More »
Sarah Vine is a journalist at The Times. She is also Mrs Michael Gove, wife of the Education Secretary. Normally I would find it difficult to justify blogging about the wife of a politician who, as far as I am aware, has absolutely nothing to do with, and quite possibly no interest in, the world… Read More »
Global warming and/or climate change are not the staple of this blog. That is not about to change but I have to say that what others call the extremes of climate (and we in the UK just call “the weather”) has been much in my mind recently. I suppose it all started with what by… Read More »
If there is one thing worse than getting ready to go away, it is coming back! All that preparation and when you get back there is so much with which to catch up, telephone calls to make and meetings to attend. I must not complain because I have just returned from a wonderfully busy and… Read More »
Did Queen Victoria actually say “we are not amused” or was it Queen Elizabeth I? What on earth were they talking about? Does it matter? Well no, not really but it is fun to try and ascribe words to historical personages and even more so to adapt them to and use them in a more… Read More »
Ancient legislation has been much in the news recently what with the 100th birthday of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 and the dusting off and scrutiny of the provisions of the Riot (Damages) Act 1886 by countless claimants and nervous police forces (and insurers). The oldest piece of Statute law in the United Kingdom… Read More »
A concerned reader has recently been enquiring after my health after I wrote about being struck by a goat in Bishop’s Square in Spitalfields – Sheep from goats, Smart e-Discovery blog, 4th Aug, 2011. This sort of loose language is of course entirely unacceptable and I apologise for causing concern to my reader and can assure… Read More »
Next week sees your correspondent jetting off to the Athens of the South, more commonly known as Nashville, Tennessee or the Music City, for the International Legal Technology Association Annual Conference 2011, known as ILTA. The conference takes place in the famous Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, said to be the largest non-casino hotel… Read More »
Which is closest to your view of disclosure/discovery? •Technology created the problem so technology needs to solve it. •Electronic discovery is often the tail which wags the litigation dog, using up between 50% and 80% of the litigation budget. •I am afraid not to know it because it dominates every part of the case. •None… Read More »