Posted in Criminal Evidence, Events on April 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dear Diary,
Things are getting complicated out there in Chavville UK. It seems to be possible that Shannon Matthews was not necessarily kidnapped, but was rather asked to hide in the base of a bed as a prank, or perhaps for a reward of a double whopper, extra-large fries and a gigantic coke. Meanwhile, the family [...]
Posted in Criminal Evidence, Politics, tagged bureaucracy, government, stasi, surveillance on April 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Having been thwarted in their attempts to have us logged and tagged via Identity Cards (as a consequence of the ineptitude of the civil service in losing databases in the post - God bless bureaucrats) the Government has come up with a more subtle and invidious means of controlling the citizen. A new “Childrens Register” [...]
Posted in Criminal Evidence, Criminal Procedure on February 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ruthie is somewhat bemused at the shock and outrage that seems to have broken out at the notion that lawyer’s conversations with their clients are being bugged by the police and security services. Ruthie has never known that her conversations were bugged, in the same way that she doesn’t know that the Earth orbits the [...]
Posted in Criminal Evidence, Criminal Legislation, Criminal Procedure, Events, Human Rights Act, Humbug, Humour, Oppression, Terrorism on November 15, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Dear Diary,
I am struggling with a particular problem. Plainly, no Maiden has ever voted Conservative. The terms of Great-Grandfather’s peerage preclude it and the Maidens are people of their word. Moreover, betraying one’s class is wonderful fun and Grandfather’s friendship with the Stansgates has endured down the generations to this day.
Of course, until recently there has [...]
Posted in Corruption, Criminal Evidence, Criminal Procedure, Events, Legal Profession, Terrorism on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Dear Diary,
Those gorgeous rockers got it right when they sang the above. As the Madonna of the Yardwinder sits snugly in PC Clod’s safe, there are wheels within wheels.
It will be remembered that Mr Calum Jones, solicitor, of HBJ Gateley Waring had an “interesting but benign” explanation of how he came to be involved. The [...]
Posted in Criminal Evidence, Legal Profession on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Ruthie often watches with amusement her fellow lawyers with their A levels in Greek and Fine Art and degrees in comparative philosophy, grappling with the most basic challenges presented by modern technology. An infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters will bang out the complete works of Shakespeare eventually, but when the [...]
Posted in Criminal Evidence, Law for Bikers on October 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Dear Diary,
In the year to 31st March 2004, the taxpayer paid £113,549,240 as a result of offences detected by speed cameras. This equates to £1.90 for every man, woman and child in the country. Personally speaking I would rather pay my £1.90 by direct debit at the beginning of each financial year, and I would [...]
Posted in Criminal Evidence, Legal Profession on October 7, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Dear Diary,
Whilst the CPS continue to spend our money deciding whether a picture not on display anywhere is pornographic, it is good to see that some enterprising members of the legal community have a proper idea of what art is all about. The Madonna of the Yarnwinder, stolen in 2003, has been recovered from a solicitor’s [...]
Posted in Criminal Evidence, Politics on August 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Dear Diary,
My little competition has, sadly, to be called off. Patsie has decided that there is not enough evidence to charge the young lady who preferred getting down to the beat to hearing the evidence that a man beat someone to death. This seems to be because it was all a mistake. Rather than go [...]
Posted in Criminal Evidence, Fraud, Politics on July 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Dear Diary,
Carmen Dowd has announced that there will be no prosecutions in the ‘Cash for Honours’ affair. I am bound to say that in my opinion it is hats off to the CPS. Not only have they reached the right decision, but they have explained themselves fully and transparently.
Of course, it does deprive us all [...]
