Obiter

  • Morton landscape
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    Black mark of hasty legislation

    2024-03-28T00:01:00Z

    The Black Act 1723 was bad, certainly as far as the rural working classes were concerned.

  • Samuel Pepys
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    Judicial history lesson

    2024-03-27T14:39:00Z

    Historical reverie of two upper tribunal judges makes one positively hanker to move to the storied locale they describe so charmingly.

  • For sale sign
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    PLAG shoots from the HIP

    2024-03-25T14:26:00Z

    Tension simmers in residential property sector over best way to speed up home buying and selling process.

  • Garrick Club painting
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    Men’s club hubbub

    22 March 2024

    The gentlemen of the Garrick doubtless rang for another large malt as the identities of current members were revealed.

  • Memory lane
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    Memory lane

    2024-03-21T00:01:00Z

    Clementi kicks off regulatory overhaul and Russia embraces jury trial system: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.

  • Error sign IT problem
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    Frozen out at the RCJ

    2024-03-20T00:01:00Z

    Obiter has long suspected that the road to hell leads through an overspill court.

  • His Honour Judge Paul Hopkins KC and lady chief justice, Dame Sue Carr
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    Cymraeg milestone

    2024-03-19T11:26:00Z

    For the first time in history, the swearing-in ceremony of a circuit judge has taken place in Wales.

  • Garage door
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    Garage rocks

    2024-03-18T15:47:00Z

    Department head at Ison Harrison Solicitors on the firm's employee-owned structure.

  • Robot holds justice scales
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    Sir Geoffrey gets a ticking off

    15 March 2024

    Capacity for AI critical comment seems to work both ways.

  • Barrister and judges wig
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    Judge puts guffawing counsel firmly in his place

    2024-03-14T16:44:00Z

    Barristers are generally adept at remaining statuesque while their opponents put forward their case, though it was not unheard of for an eye-roll or two to creep in during remote hearings in lockdown. But a judgment emerging from Ontario, Canada, suggests that not every advocate has quite managed the poker ...

  • Law report exhibition
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    From handwritten law report to AI

    2024-03-13T16:47:00Z

    Exhibition at Middle Temple Library illustrates the evolution of the law report.

  • Morton landscape
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    Magistrate with a fighting spirit

    2024-03-13T14:56:00Z

    Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny Bt was, without doubt, a Renaissance man.

  • Books of 1st and 2nd class stamps
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    It’s official: we do have second-class courts

    2024-03-13T14:44:00Z

    One of the headline ‘modernisation’ wheezes for HMCTS unveiled in the budget was ‘reducing spend on first class post’.

  • Alan Blacker on miniature railway
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    Back to Blacker

    8 March 2024

    Former solicitor Alan Blacker first came to the media’s attention in 2014.

  • Memory lane
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    Memory lane

    2024-03-07T10:28:00Z

    Scotland, money laundering regulations and a director general for the Law Society: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.

  • Post office sign hanging outside shop
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    Post Office politics

    2024-03-01T11:11:00Z

    An appearance before a parliamentary select committee is always a daunting prospect.

  • Morton landscape
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    Conduct that was unbecoming

    2024-02-29T00:01:00Z

    Many advocates have had to deal with difficult judges; and judges with some difficult advocates.

  • Golf
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    Fairway to heaven

    2024-02-28T00:01:00Z

    Law Society’s thriving golf club wants to hear from you.

  • King Charles
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    CILEx v CILEX v Rex?

    2024-02-27T15:05:00Z

    Could His Majesty King Charles III be dragged into the row over moves by CILEX to divorce its regulator?

  • Model during Yuhan Wang AW24 catwalk show, London Fashion Week
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    Catwalk looks to the courtroom

    2024-02-26T16:49:00Z

    Designer Yuhan Wang’s new collection was inspired by 'women in law'.