Blade always enjoys the musings of former schoolfriend Nigel Hanson, for some time a journalist but in recent years a media lawyer with Foot Anstey. Here he writes about the Mosley judgment, one which he sees as wholly inimical to freedom of expression and whose “morality-free logic has implications that feel, well, odd.” For example, [...]
Stephen Glover writes insightfully over at the Independent on potential banana skins awaiting Max Mosley in his libel action against the News of the World. Certainly, Mosley’s alleged status as a bizarre Nazi sympathizer has been scotched by Mr Justice Eady’s ruling last week, but while many observers always thought the paper was on a [...]
Law.com’s daily Legal Blog Watch arrives with a piece headlined ‘Spence: Law School is a Fraud’.
Blade spluttered over his morning coffee. Alex Spence, the Timesonline law editor, can be a robust cove, but what research could he have uncovered to prove that law school is such a colossal waste of time? And even if the [...]
Some artists confuse one of art’s functions – to challenge and provoke – with tawdry shock and meaningless sensationalism. Is Chinese-born artist Terence Koh one of them? His statue of Christ with an erection has been on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gatesheah – alongside models of Mickey Mouse and ET, [...]
Do you yearn to be famous? If so, there is a formula which may help. Granted, it illustrates the decline in fame from its peak, and thereby presupposes that you’ve already attained some measure of fame, but here goes anyway:
F(T) = B+P(1/10T+1/2T2)
Where has this come from? None other than PR adviser Mark Borkowski whose book, [...]
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
Is Google Street View a good thing?
Skype: coming to a courtroom near you?
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In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke and Rohit Grover of Spada examine the importance of marketing and PR in a downturn.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Edmund Burke, from the Preface to Brissot’s Address.