http://www.spada.co.uk Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:00:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was impossible to digest each morsel of the fascinating John Terry story on the weekend, so, rather as a pair of star-crossed lovers are wont to delay revisiting memories of an exciting tryst, especially if it wasn't captured on film by any reporters, we decided to defer ingestion for ... http://www.spada.co.uk/vanessa-perroncel-wronged-woman-to-sue-for-libel/ There's a new voice at Legal Blog Watch. Former litigator Eric Lipman has taken over from Robert J. Ambrogi. The latter did a sterling job for the past few years; the former seems to have a nice style, more down with the kids than up with the judges. Though, if ... http://www.spada.co.uk/new-kid-well-seasoned-litigator-on-the-block-at-legal-blog-watch/ No! It isn't - and here's why. We couldn't, even if we wanted to, infer that anyone is a fool, in the sense of directly accusing them of foolishness, because to do so is grammatically incorrect. What we could do is imply that some people are fools. We might even infer ... http://www.spada.co.uk/is-this-blog-inferring-that-some-people-are-fools/ Hear hear to Emily Bell's editorial in Media Guardian today. Channel 4's injunctive urges stick in the throat of all right-thinking members of society. Imagine, if you will, the News of the World attempting to injunct John Terry from publishing his story in, say, the Mail. A nonsense, you will ... http://www.spada.co.uk/very-poor-by-channel-4/ Talking of Avram Grant, and massage parlours, and the feisty Mrs Grant, could it be that Phil Hall, former News of the World editor turned PR guru, might consider coming out all guns blazing on behalf of his client, the beleagured John Terry? Certainly a fiendish marketing strategy needs to ... http://www.spada.co.uk/john-terry-the-pr-challenge/ Intriguingly, while the Telegraph was happy to identify a Premier League football manager whom it alleges is in the habit of visiting brothels, not all newspapers followed suit. Others adopted the template used by the Press Gazette - the allegations were republished with a fair bit of detail, but the ... http://www.spada.co.uk/one-massage-is-never-enough/ We watch with interest Andrew Pierce's new tenure with the Mail, a paper which, in some ways, is an unlikely home for the former Telegraph man who, for many people, is most readily associated with the Times. There, among other roles, Pierce presided over the entertaining 'People' column, from which superfluous ... http://www.spada.co.uk/as-welcome-as-a-hole-in-the-head/ Controversy rages over the practice of legal ghost-blogging. In fact, the practice - where a professional scribe writes a law firm's blog - has been castigated so vehemently in some quarters that if it were made illegal cartwheels of joy would abound in even the most haunted of rule-bound houses. What, ... http://www.spada.co.uk/ghostblogging-a-storm-in-a-virtual-tea-cup/ Swordplay's readers come from far and wide but we suspect that not merely those based in the North West will be interested in another venture by Blacks' Sports Law Department. With its involvement in a 'Show Racism the Red Card' event in Leeds today, Blacks is setting an example of ... http://www.spada.co.uk/blacks-showing-racism-the-red-card/ As an addendum to our congratulations to Mr Crone (see Cracking Job by Crone), we note our surprise that a firm so estimable as Schillings should apparently fail to tell the News of the World, which was preparing to publish the John Terry story, of the legal steps it was ... http://www.spada.co.uk/not-so-slick-by-schillings/