If the judge in Carter-Ruck and Amersi v. SRA (a shag marry avoid trio for the ages) had wanted to take the case in a different direction, he might have started off with a quote from the original litigation which is the subject of the complaint. In that case, the judge found: 240. Nevertheless, there … Continue reading Privilege in whose interest?
Frail Professionalism – (really) out now!
Yesterday I posted about this (the post is below if you missed it), and I can now confirm the full pdf version of the book link is working... Go here and click on "full book PDF". Thank you to everyone who has pointed out the problem and to CUP for sorting it out overnight. Back … Continue reading Frail Professionalism – (really) out now!
Frail Professionalism – out now!
Back in the Autumn of 2024, I gave the Hamlyn Lectures. This was academic lawyer nerd heaven. It involves turning those same lectures into a book. That book is now out in open access (free - thanks to the generosity of the Economic and Social Research Council, who fund the Post Office Project). You can … Continue reading Frail Professionalism – out now!
Key points from the Lloyd review of the LSB
The Independent review of the LSB for the MoJ has reported. Acknowledging the LSB operates within the “shortcomings and complexity of the regulatory framework”, it “finds that the LSB has lost its way in recent years”. There has been a lack of strategic clarity. It has struggled for impact, and had insufficiently pragmatic and proportionate … Continue reading Key points from the Lloyd review of the LSB
Three Hours, Twelve People, and a Facilitator With No Blemishes: Why the SRA’s Big Ethics Idea Doesn’t Add Up
Professor Steven Vaughan, Dean, Faculty of Law, Monash University shares his views on the SRA's ethics training proposals. The SRA wants every solicitor in England and Wales to sit in a room (or a Zoom box) for a minimum of three hours a year, talking ethics with a (solicitor) facilitator who has a clean disciplinary … Continue reading Three Hours, Twelve People, and a Facilitator With No Blemishes: Why the SRA’s Big Ethics Idea Doesn’t Add Up
Sexy Ethics from the Bar Council
If I were to ask you, on a scale of 1-10, how sexy you are, how honest would your answer be? (Also on a scale of 1-10). Would it make any difference if you knew that I would be publishing the results of a survey of people like you, which would tell the world how … Continue reading Sexy Ethics from the Bar Council
Paul Gilbert on “the price of saying no”
This is a guest post from Paul Gilbert, who is working with Karen Nokes, myself, Sally Day, and Rebecca Helm on the Post Office Project. As close followers of the project will know, it looks beyond the post office scandal itself at ways of how we might understand and help with ethical tensions in practice. … Continue reading Paul Gilbert on “the price of saying no”
On honours and heroes
So, this is weird. I have just been awarded an OBE. I am grinding my teeth a bit at the Empire thing, whilst feeling very pleased with myself and knowing, too, that things often just kind of fall in your lap. Or how often it really is who you know, rather than what you know. Or even … Continue reading On honours and heroes
On whom will the court have Amersi?
The SRA's case against Carter Ruck, where Private Eye's favourite libel firm is seeking to assert that the SRA cannot demand its files to investigate their conduct of data and defamation claims for Mohamed Amersi, is coming to the High Court soon. The agreed case summary has been published here. In essence, the SRA say … Continue reading On whom will the court have Amersi?
After MVB, addiction or understanding?
Yesterday's post, and comments, and stuff has had me clicking away and reading like it's... well.... Friday. First point, something Graeme Johnston said made me think a reason why PM might not have named the newly qualified solicitor which I did not mention was that they might incriminate themselves for the purposes of contempt proceedings. … Continue reading After MVB, addiction or understanding?
