Articles: November, 2008

‘Copy-cat’ Nicola in copyright controversy

November 26, 2008

Nicola McLean, who has failed her driving test seven times and is currently wooing viewers across the nation on I’m A Celebrity, faces an unusual accusation of copyright infringement.
Click here to learn how the I’m a Celebrity star has roused the ire of Katie Price, aka Jordan.  As Yahoo’s TV Editor, whoever he or she [...]

The Independent – but for how much longer?

November 26, 2008

“It’s horrific out there, at the moment. There’s already been carnage, and I expect there’ll be more. I’d be amazed if some newspapers didn’t fail.”
Thus spoke Roger Alton, the editor of the Independent, on Sky News. The Press Gazette has more on the story – in which Alton said that the decline in the Independent’s [...]

All Rather Ugly

November 25, 2008

Many years ago, in the infancy of his career in the law, Blade acted for a gentleman who wished to sue his daughter for libel. Unusually, this was a libel claim which would be heard in the county court. It never got there, the judge taking such a dim view of it at pre-trial stage [...]

Facebook in the Dock: Woe 2.0

November 25, 2008

Oh dear.
Blade, still reeling from Susie Boyt’s counter-intuitive affirmation of implacable good cheer at the expense of cynicism, would prefer not to garner a reputation as a cynic. And yet fresh evidence emerges to support his long-held belief that the British jury system is a farce.
It is a farce because it is relies upon jurors. [...]

Law Inaction

November 25, 2008

Controversy rages over the value of the BBC licence fee. Rumours abound as to precisely when comic geniuses Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand will return to our screens. Jeremy Clarkson continues unscathed after a joke about truck drivers murdering prostitutes. Georgina Baillie is left to roam Erotica 2008 – “the world’s largest lifestyle show for [...]