Posted in Legal Profession, Politics on September 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Dear Diary,
I see that the Independent has caught on to the idea that barristers guilty of misconduct are to have the finding publicised. Apparently, this policy applies to “Reckless QCs and other mischievous barristers”. Dear Diary, what a pity it does not apply to miserable sub-editors and journalists. The quality of the report would shame [...]
Posted in Criminal Legislation on September 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Jack Straw, who is now the Justice Secretary, has proposed strengthening the law on self defence to provide a guarantee against prosecution for people who take on criminals. Ruthie had an odd sense of deja vu upon hearing this announcement, since the issue was last aired only two years ago, when Charles Clarke, the [...]
Posted in Politics on September 27, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Ruthie was rudely awoken from her torpor this morning by the Conservative party’s comedy candidate for the London Mayoralty. If you are a Cameroon, listen and weep as Boris explains how he will respond to terrorist outrages. Who says the Tories don’t have a sense of humour?
Posted in Oppression, Politics on September 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Dear Diary,
Newcastle is a place where crime is at above average levels. That must be why the Northumbria police have spent so much time going to the Baltic Exchange and looking at the show on in the gallery there. Ever alert to the threats to their fair city the constabulary have seized a photograph as [...]
Posted in Legal Profession on September 24, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Ruthie stumbled across an interesting post from Dan Hull on the character of lawyers.
Ruthie’s experience is that the most successful lawyers are not the cleverest, but the most resilient. Unfortunately progression in life requires one to take risks, and taking risks means that on occassion one will fail. The most successful lawyers are the ones [...]
Posted in Legal Profession on September 24, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The Solicitor’s Regulation Authority is seeking an extension to the accreditation and exemption routes to higher rights to the end of 2008, so as to give it time to develop a voluntary training and assessment scheme that would begin on 1 st January 2009. Under the new scheme solicitors would no longer need accreditation to [...]
Posted in Legal Profession, Sentencing on September 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Dear Diary,
How good it is to see that sweet little Marcel reads you regularly. Of course, an attribution would have been both pleasant and proper but, as Father always said, what can one expect of the Guardian?
The alternative is that both darling Marcie and I share the same view. If so, then I must re-examine [...]
Posted in Criminal Procedure, Legal Profession on September 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Dear Diary,
How some Circuits do ‘ave ‘em. After Petey’s negotiations with Addleshaws were played out in public it appeared that Manchester had contributed the most spectacularly bizzarre judicial moment of the century thus far. However, only a few months on, Sheffield has come up with its own contender.
His Honour Judge Roger Keen QC has been smacked [...]
Posted in Events on September 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Due to overwhelming public interest Mistress Ruthie will be making herself available (in a purely social sense) at the Cafe Royal bar on the 22nd October from 6.30 pm onwards.
Do come along and bring your blogging chums, and for the price of a beer Ruthie will autograph your Archbold. No seriously, following a number of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Dear Diary,
Now that the fuss has died down a little I am able to reflect on the events of yesterday. Brucie was represented by leading counsel. That is his right and privilege, he is a wealthy man and able to afford it. The Crown was also represented by leading counsel. That is odd. We are [...]
