Situated at the foot of the Malay peninsula with a population of 5 million people from many different countries, Singapore (known as Lion City, although it is thought to be unlikely that lions ever lived there and the beast which gave the city its name was in all probability a tiger!) is an intriguing place,… Read More »
Some of us knew it already. Others denied it. Still more did not want to know about it and others closed their minds to it. I am not talking about Legal Process Outsourcing, nor Smart e-Discovery. I am talking about a report I first heard early last Thursday morning on the Today programme about the… Read More »
In the June 24th edition of The Economist there appeared an article entitled “Passage to India”. This was not a reference to the E M Forster story written in the 1920s, which uses the trial of Doctor Aziz accused of raping Adela Quested on a visit to the Marabar caves to produce a trenchant commentary on… Read More »
I was fortunate to be invited to dinner recently at the House of Commons with two MPs, one my first time elected local MP and the other an old university chum, now a Minister. Being early for my meeting in the Central Lobby, where I bumped into a solicitor I know (what a small world… Read More »
Sir Humphrey: Now go in there and inform me of their conversation. Bernard Woolley: I’m not sure I can do that, Sir Humphrey. It might be confidential. Sir Humphrey: Bernard, the matter at issue is the defence of the realm and the stability of the government. Bernard Woolley: But you only need to know things… Read More »
What clients want is a fence at the top of the cliff rather than an ambulance at the bottom. Richard Susskind’s analogy, accompanied by the appropriate slide, the contents of which I will leave to your imagination, was one of a number of catchy themes he used to describe the changing world of legal services… Read More »
What is life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? Most of us rarely have time to look at the great buildings which surround our places of work or rest. W. H. Davies thought that life was not worth having if you could not enjoy a good gawp in a… Read More »
Many readers (and we have had a dramatic increase since the start of the year) will recall that my modest hope for 2010 was that there would be more strategic thought during the litigation process than is often apparent when we are called in to assist. Frankly, not a lot of strategic thought can be… Read More »
Fresh from the mauling the Chilcot inquisitors suffered recently at the hands of Tony Blair, the former PM would doubtless wish to offer a similarly spirited and robust defence of his 1996 speech when campaigning for the return of a Government of New Labour, in which he asserted that the three main priorities for government… Read More »
At approximately 3pm on Wednesday October 26th 1881, a gun battle took place in Tombstone, Arizona involving the legendary Earp brothers and “Doc” Holliday. The fact that the fight did not actually take place in the OK Corral did not prevent it becoming known by that name nor does it detract from its notoriety even… Read More »