All Obiter articles – Page 31
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NewsFinding homes for 200 years of history
What do you do with a surplus 18th century Polish sword?
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NewsThe peer who couldn't quit
The indefatigable campaigner Andrew Phillips tried to make way for 'younger blood' in 2006.
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NewsFirm's TikTok success brings in a new audience
East Anglia practice has more than 4,100 followers - and its videos have 1 million 'likes'.
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NewsEx-BSB chief takes potshot at lawyers
Baroness Deech ends tweet on Law Commission review announcement with a sting.
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NewsMoJ stays on TikTok - for security purposes
Ministry of Justice has zero followers, follows zero accounts and has zero likes.
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NewsMemory Lane
A prime minister visits the Law Society and estate agents are muzzled. A stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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NewsThe Oscar winner v the retired optometrist
Jury awards Gwyneth Paltrow $1 - plus costs - for ski collision after a memorable trial.
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NewsNew lease of life for Legal London's watering hole
The former Knights Templar is to continue as a pub rather than a coffee shop - or lawyers' office.
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On the attack
Over the years mercifully little in the way of violence has broken out in English courts. Perhaps the most famous example is from the time when a sort of franglais was the lingua franca. In 1631 it was recorded that a prisoner ‘puis son condemnation ject un brickbat a le ...
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NewsJudgment does justice to intrepid couple's tale of holiday woe
Ice conditions making the North West Passage unnavigable were not ‘unforeseeable circumstances’, judge finds.
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NewsA blast from the past
High Court settles issue over damage caused by one tonne Luftwaffe bomb detonated by bomb disposal experts at University of Exeter.
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NewsResponse by 6am: US lawyers pull ultimate all-nighter
Appellants in Trump privilege case had been given until midnight to file, with response deadline six hours later.
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NewsPlacing the viewer in the dock
Artist Carey Young’s video work ‘Appearance’ presents UK women judges ‘diverse in their seniority, age and ethnicity’.
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NewsA season is a long time in politics
The victims’ commissioner role has been vacant since Vera Baird KC’s tenure came to an end last September.
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NewsAll the world’s a stage for Gazette scribe
‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers’ (Henry VI, Part 2), is among the Bard’s most famous lines, and one of his most controversial.
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NewsBuckland heads for Beach
Specialist company Electoral Calculus last year gave Sir Robert Buckland just a 3% chance of hanging on to his Swindon South seat at the next election.
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NewsPays your money, takes your Choices
Back in January, the SRA published a breezy annual report about its pet project Legal Choices, a consumer service providing information on legal issues and the lawyers who can sort them. The report gave plenty of facts about the number of people who visited the site in ...
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NewsTorn off a stipe
In the 1960s, to be assigned legal aid cases it was necessary to write to the court asking to be put on the register of firms willing to undertake this ill-paid work.