The piggy bank

One of the key distinctions between the way that barristers and solicitors practise, remains the fact that barristers may…

Always getting better

One of the cases due to be heard in the Court of Appeal next year, which…

Bending the rules

I have lost count of the number of decisions in the last three years, on various…

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…