Arts
Jury Service
As a result of DH’s current jury service, I started reflecting on my own experience when I was randomly selected to undertake it in 2010. At the time I was 23 and working on rotation [more…]
Law Courts
Democracy
Biased Judges, Biased Judgements
Statute vs Case Law British law is founded on two principal legal sources: statute law and case law (also known as common law). These sources interact but have distinct characteristics, functions, and origins. Statute law [more…]
Animals
Larry Diary – Week One Hundred and Seventy-Four
Monday Good morning everyone, no rain or frost again today, but the grass is still very wet under paw, but at least it isn’t so muddy as it was last week. There is even a [more…]
Arts
Four Weeks One Summer, Part Two
St Ermin’s Hotel sits exactly, to the inch, halfway between Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Westminster. A four-star hotel and a Grade II listed late Victorian building, designed in the Queen Ann revival style, [more…]
Arts
Four Weeks One Summer, Part One
Our four weeks begin on Thursday the 30th July 2015, the concluding day of Regina versus Fellows at the Old Bailey in London. In a witness statement, Ben Fellows had claimed that Kenneth Clarke MP [more…]
Literature
That Supreme Court Judgement
Ah feel pure soarry fer that Borash Johnston c**t. Tha poor bastert’s goat anuff oan his plate bein’ prime menashtah an’ aw that sh*te withoot some judge c**t pure gie’n him it tight. Ah mind [more…]