Daily Archives: May 7, 2008

Finally!! Finished case preparation for a judicial review

May 7, 2008 – 9:33 pm

Not done a JR before. Boy was it a lot of work. I hadn’t read an administrative law book since university,
that was a week of client money, then all the adjectival stuff - another week - then a week reading papers.
Thank fuck I’m not the one paying.

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Barrister tries alternative dispute resolution. Uses bullets: my dear fellow, you’re doing it all wrong

May 7, 2008 – 9:01 pm

Mark Saunders, a family law/divorce barrister it seems, was killed in a shoot out with armed police in London. It all happened near Geeklawyer’s old flat in the Kings Road as it happens, nice area but if there is much more gun-play people will presumably migrate to somewhere less dangerous; Peckham, say.
It seems that […]

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The law of intended consequences?

May 7, 2008 – 2:42 am

Geeklawyer was a trifle amused by the story of an accused being able to retain £14million following a botched civil seizure action by the government. As outlined here the government lost a case because it wouldn’t pay barristers a proper rate. No barrister would accept the defendants brief so he had to defend himself while […]

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