All Obiter articles – Page 86
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NewsBar’s verdant shortcut gets the chop
A bridge too far – waxing lyrical about garden crossing gives way to outcry over public money.
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NewsCharles Russell Speechlys - a firm that knows its apples
Making 'leather' clothes from fruit? City firm gets that pop-up feeling.
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NewsDestroyer of Victorian vice
Sometimes I worry about solicitors becoming too involved in their cases. A case in point, admittedly a century ago, is that of C H Collette, solicitor for the Society of the Suppression of Vice.
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NewsWho’s next for the black and gold?
With election fever gripping the country (stay with us) the question on everyone’s lips is: who will be lord chancellor in the new government?
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NewsSnap poll could mean yet another new face at the MoJ
The lord chancellor’s robes are in and out of the dry-cleaners every fortnight. Or so it seems.
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News'A farrago of delusional nonsense.' So that's a no then?
There are some cases so finely balanced on the finer nuances of law that a judgment could genuinely swing either way.
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NewsAnd the Bafta goes to.. the CPS?
BBC three-part series is up for a prestigious television gong.
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NewsJust browsing
Will we ever find out what the five most popular websites at the Attorney General’s Office were? While Obiter was eager to learn about the browsing habits at legal departments, we were disappointed to find that the AGO’s ‘history’ will remain a mystery. ‘The Attorney General’s Office has recently changed ...
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NewsAssault with a deadly melon
Classic tales of first days in the law continue to roll in. Alan Oakley of Burgess Hill writes: ‘I was sent to a grocer’s shop to serve a writ. I was told to look through the door first and make sure he was behind the counter because he had a ...
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NewsWho ate all the pies?
Obiter can forgive the shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon a little preening when he was recognised by a friendly constituent while doing the weekly shop at his local supermarket, Tesco in Seacroft, Leeds. In a tweet reflecting on the encounter, the man-of-the-people and loyal Corbynista concluded that what’s ‘genuinely wrong ...
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NewsIs it worth the vellum it’s written on?
Obiter must confess to being party to a small breach of parliamentary privilege when we reported a year ago on a reprieve for the practice of printing copies of acts of parliament on vellum.
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NewsFood for thought
Liz Truss is having a hard time persuading members of the profession – and the wider chattering classes – that she is up to the job of lord chancellor. ‘If she is to be taken seriously in the post she needs to be sharper and better briefed,’ The Times’ leader ...
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NewsFairground distraction
Experts may not be all they seem. In Hooten v Mississippi (1986) the defence called Marie B. Hill – who said she had given evidence in around 300 cases in Mississippi – as an expert witness, to show crucial handwriting was not that of Hooten.
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NewsIn deep water: the Bar Council on mother’s day
Talk of ’barrister mums’ and ’play dates’ prompted some spirited responses.
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NewsMemory lane
Last budget by Gordon Brown contained some pretty significant changes to the tax system.