Legal jargon: reasonable in all the circumstances, subject to due consideration of the factual nexus, or a load of old tosh? The Campaign for Plain English believes that it is possible to convey legal ideas in quotidian terminology, and cites the text below, one of m’learned friends’ finest, as an example of everything that is [...]
Back in the old days, when e-mail first entered the workplace, many a legal brain was put to good use in drafting codes of practice to ensure that employees did not press ’send’ and commit themselves or, worse, their employers to something which could wreak havoc in PR terms or even provoke litigation.
The same now [...]
Swordplay applauds Robin Budenburg, one of UBS’s star bankers, who has joined UK Financial Investments (UKFI) for a bonus-free, pension-free salary of £155,000. Rudenburg’s arrival at UKFI, a vehicle set up by the Treasury to manage the government’s interests in banks, will see him run stakes in RBS, Lloyds and the Rock. His new [...]
Who’d have thought that the humble notice of a planning application plays a key role in the survival of local newspapers? That is does is the view of Doug Melloy, the editor of the Rotherham Advertiser, who cautions that switching the ads to online media will serve as yet another nail in the local papers’ [...]
How best to kickstart the City out of recession? As the Telegraph reports here, one suggestion at the London Stock Exchange is that a new way to start the day’s trading is devised. At present, proceedings begin and end with the activation of floating balls in The Source – a sculpture in [...]
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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.