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