Richard Nixon was President of the United States from 1969 until he resigned in disgrace after Watergate in 1974. Before that, he was the unsuccessful candidate in the 1960 presidential election which brought John F Kennedy to the White House, and I recall that this poster of an unshaven and rather sinister looking “Tricky Dicky” contributed… Read More »
Judge Shira Scheindlin of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has been at it again! Famous for her ground breaking judgments on e-discovery spoliation in the Zubulake and Montreal Pension plan cases, the judge has now delivered a third ruling on this subject. Law Technology News carried an article earlier this… Read More »
American friends of mine emailed from sunny Washington the other day to complain (if that is the right word) that they had been living and working in the UK for a number of years and that it was only after they left to go back to the US that we in England had what you might call… Read More »
Once again we appear to have encountered a problem with email notifications to our subscribers. Many of you will see the posts anyway, either by logging onto the blog or by following us on Twitter where the links are always published but in case you have missed one or two posts, here are links to… Read More »
It is a reasonably sound bet that when former Chief Whip, Andrew Mitchell, attempted to leave Downing Street with his bicycle, he never expected to be forging new law a few months later. The story is, of course, well known. When trying to leave via the security gates, Mitchell became embroiled in an argument with… Read More »
It is said that “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” But before you acquire the lazy habit which leads to respectability, you may want to get up to speed with the developments piling up now before everyone departs for the beach. If you are as miffed as J K Rowling is… Read More »
CMCs are becoming more streamlined. I am sure this trend has been felt by litigants all around the country, but no more so than in Birmingham where His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC has published a new CMC notice, Case Management Conference Notice HHJ Simon Brown QC July 2013. The notice will be familiar to… Read More »
I am reliably informed that in the Government’s same sex marriage bill currently before Parliament, each one of us is to be allowed to be a husband or a wife depending on how we feel. In an effort to clarify the terms “husband” and “wife” the bill states that “husband” will “include a man or… Read More »
If you are staying abreast of the development of best practice after the coming into effect of the Jackson reforms, you are presumably following the series of articles by the indefatigable Judge Simon Brown QC, head of the Mercantile Court in Birmingham. Simon Brown has written a number of articles on the subject which have… Read More »
Many of us will have been thrilled to see an astronomical phenomenon in recent days. Did the moon seem to you to be bigger and brighter recently? Sadly, many of us will also have shrugged our shoulders and asked “What moon?” because in this fine summer of 2013, the skies over the UK have been… Read More »