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Internet Donkey of the Year

December 27, 2008 17:25

The Ghost of Tony Bliar hasn’t quite left the Labour party yet. Prize knob-end Andy ‘Angry‘ Burnham, the Secretary of State for the Department of Culture, Media and Sports has displayed, and combined, his unique talents for a headline grab, a reactionary authoritarian neo-Labour...

Geeklawyer Xmas 2008 podcast 15

December 24, 2008 20:33

Contrary to the opinion of some, Geeklawyer is not a Grinch the innocent so suffer. He merely desires death pain and suffering to those who have irritated him in 2008. To those remaining 5 of you on the Planet: “Merry Xmas!!!” In this the first podcast since May, yes Geeklawyer is a...

Latest data theft: the Bar Council - but *they* show the government how to protect data

December 17, 2008 14:27

The Bar Council has just notified Geeklawyer that a thief broke into their premises and nicked a laptop and four hard-drives full of embarrassing data: the partial financial records of barristers; their names and addresses; names of the Great and the Good of the Bar Council and the Bar Standards...

One is only as good as one’s last defence

December 17, 2008 14:08

US Judge orders a retrial after disastrous defense by a lawyer who interviewed his client for only 5 minutes before a trial. A young lawyer, called in April 2005, screwed up the defense so badly that the judge, of his own motion - a much rarer thing in the US than the UK, ordered a new [...]US...

Random fire 16

December 16, 2008 15:42

A man who bought a wig and gown on eBay and then gave a grossly inept imitation of a barrister in court became the first person jailed for ‘pretending to be a barrister’. The judge said to him You wanted to appear more important than you are.” Solicitor-Inadequates up and down the...

It’s Xmas so the traditional CPD panic is upon us

December 09, 2008 19:32

One of Geeklawyer’s pet peeves is the CPD. It is a measure of the regulating bodies trust in its profession that it isn’t prepared to believe that practitioners will keep themselves up to date with their skills by themselves. Any lawyer who wanders into court and quotes the 1837 Theft...

The Barristers - episode four - the final act

December 07, 2008 23:51

The End. In so many ways, the end. This episode saw the downward spiral of the 24 caret plonker Ickbal from what seemed to be the unbreachable all time low of previous episodes. Never missing an opportunity to show that he was as dim as he was egotistical he offered numerous dishes to camera: In a...

CharonQC & Scott H ‘Simple Justice’ Greenfield podcast

Geeklawyer
December 06, 2008 17:39

CharonQC’s podcasts are invariably very good. Today he released one with Scott H. Greenfield the famed New York criminal defence attorney who writes the Simple Justice blog. Lord, what a good podcast it was, Scott acquitted himself very well indeed expanding eloquently on topics such as the...

Doud, we drive on the right side of the road in the UK

December 05, 2008 16:36

Or rather dude we drive on the left side of the road. Go to jail, Mr Doud of Chigaco. Or Gaol as we call it. Any American readers about to cross the pond should take Geeklawyer’s highly regarded online cultural awareness & sensitivity training course please email for a embarassingly high...

Geeklawyer Revenge Award 2008. Low-life punter won’t pay bill? Classiest response *EVAR*!

December 05, 2008 10:35

Hat tip to @infobunny. Punters. Yea, we (whack job Dan Hull excepted) hate them all; with scant exception they are whiny sniveling wretches: an honourable dispensation is granted for those that take Geeklawyer drinking and whoring, of course - they are the very finest of fellows and Geeklawyer...