We now have a confirmed date & venue:
The date will be 18th of May.
The venue will be CPA Global’s London office: 1 Oliver’s Yard London, EC1Y 1DT. Google map here.
There will be a buffet lunch laid on. Post conference entertainment to be announced later.
Program to be announced later.
Many thanks to Professor Phillips for helping find such a great venue. Many thanks to CPA Global. In particular many thanks to the vastly helpful Charlotte Presse who has been of huge assistance to date, and is continuing to be so having provided some very helpful organising & promotion suggestions.
Will there be a charge for the conference?
There is likely to be a charge - it depends somewhat on sponsorship levels. I’m hoping to make it £20 less for students.
Date is in the diary.
Err - £20 less than what? says the skint paralegal…
Contact (Nearly Legal)…. quite right. It is all in the punctuation.
Geeklawyer appears to have missed a comma, or a dash. A new sentence may have altered the construction.
However… the word ‘less’ carries a degree of imprecision worthy of a fine drafter.
I remember the ‘chill winds of constructionalism’ which swept through the law of contract after Lord Denning’s departure from the CA.
Equity? a passing fad! In Contract - draft as you mean to be construed - unless, of course, it suits your purpose to create a ‘zone of uncertainty’, a poison pill, a deterrent to litigation.
Charon, thanks for keeping an eye on Geeklawyers grammar. By the way I’m not ignoring you, and will give you a call to catch up next week.
Ruthie / Geeklawyer - always a pleasure…. I am most impressed Geeklawyer with your investigative skill in working out that Legal Beagle is a woman. I think you may have been sleeping in the knife box recently
It is ironic that I should be able to analyse construction - but appear to have the typing skills of all those monkeys who still have not been able to type a decent Shakespeare play.
I have been to The Bollo - where, as it happened, I ran into the managing partner of a well known law firm. I think I have persuaded him to start a trainee blog to promote his firm.
Geeklawyer…. How much will it be for ‘topers’?
I am quite happy to provide some wine for the event - a case of Rioja - would this help?
John Mortimer QC used to come and address my law students every year for about four years. He was excellent . His only stipulation - that I provide a bottle of champagne for him to drink while he gave his talk.
I shall follow his example - but, in the spirit of the blogosphere - I’ll bring my own bottle of Rioja to quaff while I give my keynote speech. Don’t worry - I won’t drink it all in 10 minutes….
It is Saturday. 21.53. I am in the Diary Room.
Hello Big Blogger:
I find myself thinking about Faust…. reflecting on the pact which I made many years ago when I was a young Mason. I decided, today, that I would read and write - with a glass or two of Bourbon monarchist wine… and think back over my life.
Since I am a figment of someone else’s information - and he is out enjoying himself - I have decided that the time has come to strike out on my own, cut the gordian knot, and see what happens.
So… Geeklawyer…and you may record this as a first - A blawger, formerly subject to the pace of life of his author, has declared UDI (Unliteral Declaration of Independence - for younger readers who may not remember Ian Smith, the Harold Wilson HMS TIger talks and Southern Rhodesia) and will, from this day, not be (in any way) dependent on the dictats or slings and arrows of outrageous fortune of his creator.
That Dan Hull still gives credit to another for my presence on the web - is (was) fine. But, from this day, perhaps Dan will accept that a figment of another’s imagination has human rights, has a ’sovereign personality’ and that these rights should be respected.
I stood back from trying a ‘Free Willie’ style campaign - that would have been absurd. I rarely go to sea these days - so UDI seemed more appropriate.
I appreciate that this initiative on my part - to declare independence from my author - may prove inconvenient to other anonymous law bloggers who are stilll reliant on their authors for their existence - but… that is the way of the world in these days when Armgeddon, in the form of global warming, is predicted by The Independent, to happen in 2090. A blawger has to what a blawger has to do.
So… to borrow a verse from Auden: “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.”
Charon is free…
Sorry, Charon–and I will check into human rights rehab…
Go on, commit to a price and a rough schedule. The suspense is killing us.
Uh, I’ve had to strip him naked, nail him to the floor and tickle his sensitive parts to get him to sort out even the arrangements we have thus far…
Trying to get him to commit to a price and schedule is likely to require more drastic measures.
Ah, you seem to have forgotton that the conference was in fact MY IDEA. You’ve clearly forgotton: my role is strategy, yours implementation. Got that?
Dear Shortarse, you must be the only person in the comos who rings me more when they are supposedly on holiday than when they are at home. Go and stick some skis on and do some skiing for f**** sake.
I will permit swearing on the blog. No stars are needed: the word ‘fuck’ is acceptable. And I am not a shortarse: I am standing in a portable hole.