Barristers’ Robes and Wigs
On balance, Legal Beagle likes them. She also garnered two quite amusing comments.
Britain
I Suppose He Wants A Nobel Prize For This
Iran has found yet another way to polarize world opinion and engage in self-aggrandizement. In one of the more transparent tissues of spin I can recall, the government of Iran has “pardoned” the 15 British sailors and marines and promised… Continue Reading
An Act Of War
Imagine this. The Iranian Navy sends a boat out from its far-western port of Bandar-e Mahshahr to patrol against smugglers. The boat finds a Saudi-flagged ship it does not recognize in their territorial waters, and sends over a boarding party… Continue Reading
Silk Shortage
In the United Kingdom (most specifically in England and Wales) lawyers can apply to become Queen’s Counsel, which is an elite status given to attorneys who have shown a high level of competence and impressed their peers with their abilities.… Continue Reading
How To Light £18,000 On Fire
Is it a relief to see that fuzzy thinking and antiscience are not confined to the United States? No. No, it turns out to be only moderately less infuriating because my tax dollars were not wasted on this boondoggle. (They… Continue Reading
A Handsome Magnet
In a few months, a young man is going off to war. As a teenager, he got into the sorts of trouble that middle- and upper-class boys get in to, but he seems to have overcame his earlier troubles Pperhaps… Continue Reading
How Could This Be?
Apparently, over in the UK, barristers are not able to sue solicitors for not paying their bills; it’s a big deal that fee contracts between the two kinds of British lawyers are now becoming enforceable. Granted, their system is more… Continue Reading
Disloyalty and Criticism
I guess I’m in a cynical mood after last night’s dinner guests expressed similar contempt for our national leadership as I read in some ironic invective from the Reality-Based Community. A surge of 20,000 “new” troops is the answer? They’re… Continue Reading
It’s Not Just Here
Turns out one in five schoolchildren in the United Kingdom does not have the ability to locate the United Kingdom on a map. For a long time, we’ve been bemoaning the lack of education in the United States. I suppose… Continue Reading
No Wonder The Judgment Took So Long (UPDATED)
The judge who wrote the judgment in The Da Vinci Code copyright case has apparently embedded a secret code in the text! You can find a copy of the judgment here. Decoding it is far more work than I care… Continue Reading