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OBITER
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NewsPost Office probe gets intimate
Malapropism highlighted in last week’s hearing prompts snorts of amusement.
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NewsJudges primed for a turf war?
Did the prime minister’s statement on his plans to ‘stop the boats’ spark a constitutional row with HM Judiciary?
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NewsMemory lane
Heralding the ‘Wi-Fi era’, a supreme vision for a new court, and a solicitor in the Grand National: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsEchoes of Escobar and a morality tale
Brother of late (alleged) Colombian drug lord brings trade mark appeal.
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News'Bitcoin identity' trial Rolls on
A brief encore to Mr Justice Mellor’s triumphant performance in COPA v Wright.
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NewsOf alibis and advocacy
I don’t think I ever encountered a professional alibi witness, but I certainly knew a man who was a professional mitigator.
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News44 and out for Darryl
Litigation executive Darryl Barnes retires 44 years after first stepping through the doors at Leamington Spa firm Blythe, Owen George & Co.
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NewsThe friendly kind of lively
Obiter was intrigued to read the minutes for last month’s SRA board meeting.
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NewsA glorious run comes to an end
Final episode of US sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm plays out in a courtroom.
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Memory lane
Courts fees increase, the race to the bar and illegitimate persons: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsDawn of ‘deathtech’
MyGoodbyes is an app to lead us through a conversation many of us never get around to having.
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NewsWhere ‘legal Eagles’ dare
Hats off to Deputy Master Linwood for working a classic 1970s rock lyric into a judgment.
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NewsMaking an exhibit of ourselves
Obiter’s little aside on a case features as an exhibit in the skeleton of another case.
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NewsIrish eyes smiling on new expat group
Association of Irish Lawyers in England (AILIE) aims to connect Irish people throughout England.
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NewsBlack mark of hasty legislation
The Black Act 1723 was bad, certainly as far as the rural working classes were concerned.
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NewsJudicial history lesson
Historical reverie of two upper tribunal judges makes one positively hanker to move to the storied locale they describe so charmingly.
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NewsPLAG shoots from the HIP
Tension simmers in residential property sector over best way to speed up home buying and selling process.
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NewsMen’s club hubbub
The gentlemen of the Garrick doubtless rang for another large malt as the identities of current members were revealed.