High crimes and misdemeanours
One of the books I read over the summer was by the Secret Barrister: in essence…
The winds of winter
Last month the Lord Chancellor suffered another defeat in the High Court in the case of R…
Making retainers work
A colleague at the Bar recently asked me what I actually did on a day to…
Death by acronym
Today the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in the case of Cartwright v Venduct Engineering…
1Q18
One of my favourite series of books in recent years, is the sequence 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami,…
The mills of god
Over the last 20 years, I have dealt with every conceivable type of litigation in every…
The philosophers’ stone
I have long thought that perhaps the most valuable commodity in the world is information. In…
The great escape
The bane of solicitors practising in the field of personal injury has since at least 2013…
The road not taken
For many years the questions of alternative funding and its availability has been central to disputes…
Beyond the Wall
I had an entertaining trip to Manchester on Friday, in order to speak at the ACL…