by Kris | May 27, 2012 | DIY Law, Miscellany
I did a podcast with the inimitable Charon QC this morning (it should be up in due course) – and one of the things he asked about was how should solicitors deal with litigants in person. I said that while judges often ask me to explain the relevant legal...
by Kris | May 26, 2012 | Direct Access Barristers, DIY Law, Miscellany
Whenever legal pundits start talking about solicitor firm futures, they invariably trot out a comparison with high street opticians. Individual firms of solicitors will be either taken over or pushed out of the market. A one woman band simply will not have the...
by Kris | Apr 23, 2012 | Miscellany, Public law, Supreme Court of the United States
Carl Gardner recently blogged about “Written constitutions, a warning from America” and noted his bemusement that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could be “struck down” by the Judicial Branch as being...
by Kris | Feb 2, 2012 | Miscellany, Public law
In case you haven’t read it, Charon QC kicked off an interesting discussion about the Bar Standards Board’s censure of David Harris for some things he published as @geeklawyer by way of his protected Twitter account. The BSB called it, “engaging in...
by Kris | Jan 20, 2012 | Direct Access Barristers, DIY Law, Get qualified, Miscellany, Non-legal help
Friends, this is a funny old jurisdiction. Anybody can call themselves a “lawyer”. You don’t have to have one day’s worth of legal training to be a “lawyer”, “will-writer” or “professional McKenzie Friend”...
by Kris | Apr 14, 2010 | Miscellany, Supreme Court of the United States
“Birthers”, if you didn’t know, refers to people who think Barack Obama does not satisfy the “natural born citizen” requirement contained in the US Constitution and thus is ineligible to be President of the United States. Some birthers...
