Ruthie is pleased to announce her new web­site (warn­ing: liable to induce nar­colepsy in any­one other than crim­i­nal lawyers, defen­dants or mag­is­trates). This will be a blog ded­i­cated to an aca­d­e­mic dis­cus­sion of crim­i­nal law, with par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on reg­u­la­tory crime, which is what Ruthie actu­ally does all day when she’s not play­ing on here. I’ve set this up with a view to encour­age more heavy­weight spe­cial­ist con­tri­bu­tions, which clearly this blog does not support.

Geeklawyer, para­noid as usual, thinks this is my bid to make a break for free­dom, aban­don him and take my fan club with me. Fear not, it seems increas­ingly com­mon for lawyers to have two blogs, a “fun” one and a seri­ous one, as its very dif­fi­cult to com­bine the two.

So, if your day would not be com­plete with­out read­ing an analy­sis of work at height reg­u­la­tions and waste man­age­ment licenses, do pay a visit to the Ruthie’s Law. I wouldn’t want any more peo­ple get­ting over excited on here, oth­er­wise we might have to dish out smelling salts for our next com­pe­ti­tion prize.