I confess that I had forgotten that there was a draft report on my trip to Southern California this spring lying unpublished in what passes for my junk drawer for this blog. Publication of the latest edition of the Commentary published by the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA) has stirred me into action. You can read… 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 »
Sitting on a bus recently in the Austrian Alps, I watched carefully as the driver inched along a narrow road twisting and turning above a ravine where many feet below a raging torrent of still melting snow rushed headlong downwards, ever downwards. Our driver was not aware of or concerned by how I felt about the… 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 »
Everywhere you look, information is being created. What is more, that information is being stored, often inadvertently. When the time comes for that information to be accessed and retrieved/managed, perhaps because of litigation, a subject access request, internal investigation or regulatory inquiry, many companies find themselves in real difficulty. Big Data, BYOD, social media and an array… Read More »
Recently I have encountered problems with aspects of the blog. One that causes me concern is the apparent inability to notify subscribers of a new post. This normally happens automatically via WordPress provided I remember to uncheck the relevant box but is currently not happening. My last post on July 23rd, False Positives, is a case… 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 »
The TV series Mission:Impossible began with the team receiving a tape starting with the words: “Your mission,…. should you decide to accept it…”, followed by a brief description of the problem to be solved. Famously, the sequence ended with the words “This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck……” and then smoke would rise from… Read More »
One hundred and sixty million. Occasionally, I find that, when following the news a fraction more closely than normal, I discover what might be described as coincidences. Over the past few weeks, I have noticed the figure of 160 million cropping up on more than one occasion. It is not a figure like a dozen… 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 »