OBITER – Page 24
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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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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.
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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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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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NewsAn inspiration in the middle of disaster
Junior solicitor from Lancashire lends support to humanitarian efforts in wake of Turkey/Syria earthquake disaster.
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NewsLawyer goes viral over email typo
Media lawyer's appearance on Sunday on GB News emphasises benefits of checking for typos.
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NewsRaab keeps his own counsel as judges sweat
Dominic Raab doesn’t appear to like lawyers much, despite being one himself. But has this seemingly reflex hostility degenerated into outright provocation? Gazette columnist and legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg reported last month that more than 11,000 serving or former part-time judges in England and Wales stand to lose pension benefits ...
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NewsTomorrow’s - plus a few of yesterday’s - lawyers
Futurologist Richard Susskind identifies 15 new jobs for human lawyers alongside the robots.
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NewsSunak turns up in acquisition announcement
Prime minister makes a special appearance in law firm press release.
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NewsCash and curry
Data on Whitehall spending included £909 at Westminster curry house The Cinnamon Club.
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NewsBear necessities as Supreme Court moves to Manchester
UK's highest court asks Twitter to name a jumper-wearing teddy.
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