All Obiter articles
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NewsCricket club on the stump
What portends the arrival of lazy summer days and daze better than the dull thwack of leather on willow? Soon it will be time to dig out those battered old pads from the loft for another cricket season. If it ever stops raining.
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NewsSorry Sir Brian, it’s thumbs down
I see that an upskirting case scheduled for four days before a district judge has been fixed for December 2027. How on earth has this been allowed to happen?
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NewsReceding into the distance
Forward planning is important, but the courts are forced to take this to extremes.
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NewsIron law of marketing
Obiter is all for law firms supporting their local football teams by chucking some money their way. But choosing to sponsor a club’s full-time result tweet is always going to be tricky.
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NewsGazette memory lane
Calls for a single regulator, advocacy test failures and ministerial memoirs: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsKing’s councillor
Waltham Forest Council’s principal lawyer has a notable meeting with the monarch.
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NewsEmail is just phoning it in
A generational divide appears over the willingness to get on the ‘dog ’n bone’.
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NewsBook ’em, Danno!
Witness statements in the marathon phone-hacking action brought by Prince Harry and others have piqued Obiter’s interest.
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NewsIn the wrong ’uns lane
Our favourite among Leveson’s criminal courts review recommendations? Allowing prison vans to use bus lanes so defendants can get to court on time.
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Memory lane
Bitcoin technology, foreign lawyer admissions and satire at the bar: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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News'You were lucky!'
Topic of City solicitors’ chargeable hours kicks off a debate in the pages of The Times.
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NewsDear Deirdre drops in
Agony aunt Deirdre Sanders kicks off Family Mediation Week with an online webinar for separating and divorced parents.
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NewsWhat a carve up
Courts minister Sarah Sackman MP donned the traditional hard hat and Hi-Vis vest this week for a visit to Legal London’s most impressive building site.
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News'Don’t laugh, he’s better than you'
I heard some great (and lesser) solicitor advocates in magistrates’ courts.
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NewsMBE for legal aid royalty
The Solicitors’ Charity trustee Audrey Ludwig collects her MBE from Princess Anne at Windsor Castle.
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News'Hotshot' hair and the spare
Press photographers camped outside the side entrance to the Royal Courts of Justice this week, to catch a glimpse of Prince Harry.