All Obiter articles – Page 68

  • Jane-Mair-Felicity-Belton
    News

    Fun and games down the aisle

    16 September 2019

    Getting married is by no means a game but academics at the University of Glasgow have come up with an entertaining way to help lay people understand the legal implications.

  • Plane at airport
    News

    Winging it in the classroom

    16 September 2019

    A conversation in a legal London hostelry the other night set Obiter thinking about how creative solicitors can get away with winging it (sic) in the new world of self-assessed continuing competence.

  • Silhouette of man
    News

    Sitting on the offence

    16 September 2019

    Readers will be aware of issues surrounding the right to be forgotten, which gives some of those with a blemish in their past the chance to erase it from Google searches.

  • Stock ID-819688750
    News

    Right to be forgotten… in 60 years’ time

    2019-09-11T00:01:00Z

    SDT updates its judgment publication policy. 

  • 34514761
    News

    Buckland's history lesson for the PM

    2019-09-09T10:36:00Z

    The lord chancellor spoke to Boris Johnson about the importance of the rule of law.

  • Morton landscape
    News

    Reading the Riot Act 100 years on

    9 September 2019

    The last time the Riot Act was officially read in England was in 1919 in Liverpool during the second police strike.

  • Chanery-lane-obiter
    News

    Chancery Lane’s traffic-free lunch

    9 September 2019

    A string quartet, a beehive, a smoothie bike and a karaoke stall together with numerous food stalls and several bars were among the attractions popping up on London’s main legal thoroughfare last week. Chancery Lane closed to traffic for three lunchtimes in succession as part of the Lunchtime Streets initiative ...

  • Caulk-gun
    News

    Filler whale

    9 September 2019

    A review copy of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: International Legal and Regulatory Challenges (Bloomsbury Professional) lands on Obiter’s desk with a gratifying thump. At 357 pages from three expert authors, it looks a weighty and timely briefing on the legal questions raised by new encryption techniques. And, for the first 162 ...

  • Linklaters1.jpeg
    News

    Linklaters’ purple ways

    9 September 2019

    In an apparent bid to connect with youth culture, magic circle firm Linklaters has re-designed the offer letter it sends out to future trainees. Gone are the days when a monochrome typed document was enough – successful recruits will now receive a purple-themed, eco-friendly letter devoid of legalese. During a ...

  • Wer wird
    News

    German lawyer really wanted to be a millionaire

    2019-09-06T10:49:00Z

    Avid fan of TV quiz show who reconstructed the studio in his home hits the jackpot.

  • Quartet
    News

    Lunchtime and the living is easy

    2019-09-03T10:22:00Z

    London’s Chancery Lane closes for the first of three days of street events.

  • 44992587
    News

    Panama Papers firm hits the big screen

    2019-09-02T09:31:00Z

    The Laundromat brings an all-star cast to the Mossack Fonseca story. 

  • Memory lane
    News

    Memory lane 2 September 2019

    2 September 2019

    A stroll down Gazette memory lane.

  • equal to everything
    News

    What Brenda did

    2 September 2019

    There’s soon to be a children’s book based on Lady Hale’s life. 

  • Tony Hancock
    News

    Judge and jury

    2 September 2019

    What happens when the master of the rolls gets summoned for jury service?

  • 862112046
    News

    A phoney fraud epidemic: when stats don’t speak for themselves

    2019-08-29T09:37:00Z

    Detected fraud is through the roof, in all but reality.

  • Stock ID-146808751
    News

    Padding out the pages

    2019-08-20T10:19:00Z

    Do we really need a print out of the General Data Protection Regulation?

  • Lunchtime Streets
    News

    Lawyers who lunch

    2019-08-14T15:16:00Z

    Legal London will say goodbye to al-desko sandwiches, for three days, anyway. 

  • Gauke
    News

    Gauke’s dive back into Twitter hi-jinks

    2019-08-12T11:23:00Z

    Former lord chancellor appears topless with tan and facial fuzz. 

  • Robert Buckland QC MP
    News

    Buckland plays it for laughs

    5 August 2019

    Latest lord chancellor gave as good as he got as he acknowedged his predecessor’s comments.