November 15, 2007 – 4:29 pm
Family Lore reports that Mr Justice Singer was just ordered to step down form a case for making a few poor jokes. In the matter of El Farargy v El Farargy and Others he made a couple of faintly amusing quips about using a “flying carpet” to avoid/evade costs and poor quality gelatinous evidence that […]
November 9, 2007 – 9:14 am
When Geeklawyer was a student he worked in a loony bin for ?2/hour. About a sixtieth of that modern students get working in employment tribunals. You might think that they’d do a decent job but Nick Leung tells Geeklawyer of employment tribunal appeal? UKEAT/0486/07/JOJ that indicates otherwise.
When filing the court forms this student/amateur lawyer pressed […]
October 23, 2007 – 3:45 pm
Microsoft’s long held and well deserved reputation as a government eater has perished on the sword of the most unlikely and tremulous dragon-slayer: the EU Competition Commission. M$ have finally yielded to the Competition Commission and will make no appeal against the decision of the European Court in 2004.
This is a qualified victory for consumers: […]
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Tagged competition, EU, european, European Court, IT, licence, microsoft
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Geeklawyer was in court last week. And he had handed up a skeleton argument to the judge that was of a mildly humorous tone, and he really does mean mildly; it was no blog post. He was fortified by the fact that it was the litigant in person who was speaking not himself (complex - […]
Outlaw tells the story of City money jugglers Forum Global Equity who failed to persuade a court that an unprofitable deal was not contractually binding on them. They had bought the distressed debt notes of Parmalat and agreed to punt them on to bankers Bear Stearns for €3Million.
Which is a pretty big bag of nose […]
Ruthie has been in a world of pain for the last couple of weeks drafting schedules, which when the trial preparation jobs are dished out is surely the shortest and shittiest stick to get. However Ruthie, unlike Geeklawyer, accepts that her place in universe means that such tasks are on occassion unavoidable, and serve to […]
Most law students learn early on in their first Tort course the ‘floodgates’ policy principle. By this policy deserving litigants are deprived of their justice deserts because the court fears that if a legal point is conceded then the locust-like hordes of unwashed plebeian litigants will descend into the courts daily list demanding their proper […]
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Tagged bank, civil litigation, court, court of appeal, employees, floodgates, golf, judge, judiciary, litigants, litigation, precedent, settlement agreements, tort, wage slaves
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Nearly Legal accused Geeklawyer of being expensive and posted an interesting link to a Times Online article by none other than Professor Sir Hugh Laddie ex-IP judge and mauler of Graceland (nice job on that one BTW Hugh).
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Tagged CPR, disclosure, evidence, examination, Germany, IP, judge, Laddie, legal aid, legal proceedings, litigation, New Labour, patents, Times, Woolf
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Having been dragged out of retirement to act as coroner in the Inquest, Lady Butler-Sloss has now gone back to her potting shed citing lack of experience; curious since she was once Britain’s premier female Judge and retired as President of the High Court Family Division. You’d think it would be difficult to find someone […]
Shortest decision ever! here it is in full:
Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida, January Term, A.D. 2007
Opinion filed February 28, 2007.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D06-2000
Lower Tribunal No. 99-20601
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Albert Russell Francis,
Petitioner,
vs.
The State of Florida,
Respondent.
An case of Original Jurisdiction – Ineffective Assistance of Appellate
Counsel.
Albert Russell Francis, in proper person.
Bill McCollum, […]