Category Archives: litigation

Coroners Bill

July 1, 2006 – 7:34 pm

An inquest is conducted following any violent or unnatural death with a view to establishing the cause, time and place of death and if necessary establishing the identity of the deceased. Lawyers don’t generally attend unless interested parties want to be represented, and for the average trial lawyer its an easy day: the tribunal being […]

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Court of Appeal to Sony: PS2 is just a games machine & BTW your lawyers suck ass

June 20, 2006 – 12:05 pm

In what must be one of the most stinging rebukes to a ‘proper’ claimant, the Court of Appeal went bezerk and ripped into Sony.
Jesus, there was blood everywhere. It was liked a scene from Kill Bill with Lord Justice Chadwick swinging his samurai sword with gay abandon: the ancient walls of the court sprayed with […]

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Apple loses

May 8, 2006 – 11:02 am

Beatles Apple, that is (Apple Core, Corps).
Apple & Apple signed a deal whereby Apple Computers would stay out of the music business.

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Microsoft

April 28, 2006 – 5:52 pm

Geeklawyer hates Microsoft. He is an unrepentant Linux and Apple fanboy. His joy would be to see Bill Gates gang raped and forced to beat his wife and kids to death with a hammer and eat the remnants. For ‘Dancing Fool’ Balmer he would create a less pleasant demise.

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The law as code

April 27, 2006 – 8:24 pm

The news that Mr Justice Peter Smith riddled his judgement in the Da Vinci Code copyright trial with hidden text in the form of 40 characters is amusingly ironic. It’s good to see judges playing harmless games. It reminds Geeklawyer somewhat of the “Word of the Day” game played in numerous law firms: select a […]

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Geeklawyer sides with Microsoft ?!

April 26, 2006 – 10:20 pm

No he’s not talking about the interminable struggle between Bill and the Commission; where he hopes Bill will get an atomic wedgie from the Masters of Bureaucracy.
No, what Geeklawyer is banging on about is

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Traffic Wardens

April 17, 2006 – 10:38 pm

The department of transport is recommending a softer approach to parking enforcement. Alistair Darling, the transport secretary, has written to MP’s admitting that many motorist’s complaints about the way they are treated “may be merited”. This sudden sympathy for the motorist, a golden egg of taxation revenue, has of course nothing to do with forthcoming […]

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private international law

March 31, 2006 – 8:58 pm

In its ongoing war with the EC, which makes the 100 years war look like a brief argument outside a pub at kicking out time, Microsoft has, in addition to running to mummy, sought discovery against Sun computers & the Oracle database company. The EU wouldn’t allow the introduction of documents that would have helped […]

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beating copyright infringement

March 25, 2006 – 12:30 am

The tired site Slashdot points to this story of a Russian hacker at a software company fighting a pirate in a gym. A brawl apparently erupted in a street market when the hacker saw the pirate punting his company’s offerings. The pirate offered to continue the punch up in a gym, the hacker accepted and […]

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ISPs as mere conduits & loony litigants in person

March 21, 2006 – 10:48 pm

Information overlord and b2fxxx both comment on the recent case of Bunt v Tilley & Others. An interesting Internet defamation case that illustrated a useful distinction from the case of Godfrey v Demon. In summary what happened was that, allegedly, several individuals made defamatory remarks about Bunt’s business. These remarks were published on forums that […]

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