It’s a strange notion, libel tourism. Who on earth would want to travel the world in search not of an idyllic beach but rather the best place in which to sue for libel? Surely there are better things to do? Not according to the Independent today. The author, Robert Verkaik, writes of the phalanx of [...]
Hot on the heels of the news that a juror in a trial in Newcastle Crown Court caused its collapse after turning amateur sleuth, Simon Jenkins opines in the Times today that the jury system should be scrapped. Here are ten acts of jury madness to suggest that he might just be right. 1. Jurors [...]
Blade chances upon a remarkable parable thanks to the ever-eclectic folk at Slate. Paul Krugman writes of how a group of young professionals organised a coupon system to enable them to take turns babysitting, so that members of the collective could do that which seems so distant a memory as soon as one has children, [...]
Thanks to Ana for highlighting this post about China’s 10 worst laws at ForeignPolicy.com. Blade understands that in days of old the Chinese so zealously guarded its exclusive rights to sericulture (silkworm breeding, to you and me) that imperial law decreed death by torture to anyone who revealed its secrets. Doubtless the enlightened modern Chinese [...]
The Times recently carried a piece reporting on the plethora of legal issues underlying a major sporting event such as the Olympics. Indeed, the piece might have been headlined “Beijing Bonanza for Lawyers”, so busy are m’learned friends in connection with the event. A lawyer’s art was perhaps behind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [...]
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After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).