Blatman Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 It's almost too tempting, and you know how interested I am in that subject I'll be bugging the lawyers and journos at work tomorrow... again... Quote
DanB Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 Well, if you do get access, resist the temptation to read the full judgment of Gray J in Irving v. Penguin Books. It's a fascinating read, but the judgment in full is 331 pages long... I know, 'cos I lost an entire day when I should've been working reading it... Quote
Blatman Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 331 pages ina day is good going. I assume most of it was in English and not Latin Quote
DanB Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 Yeah, sadly it's all in English these days. Mind you, a few years ago I was doing a case on guarantees, and the leading case was from the 16th century and was written in legal French. I had to go to court with a copy of the case AND a translation into English... And thanks to the doctrine of precedent in English law, it was still a binding authority, so we won the case! Quote
Blatman Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 Do I take it that you're not up before the bench on the morrow? Or are you cramming? It's a bit late for all this nonsense Quote
DanB Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 Leave the house at 6.30 a.m., get to Chambers at 8.30 a.m., in court at 10:30 a.m. on a bankruptcy hearing, meeting about seminars for solicitor clients at 3 p.m. and a conference about a spectaularly messy contentious probate action at 4.30 p.m. Cramming? No... I took the last ever exam I'll ever take about 10 years ago. My feet are wedged firmly under the table of the glorious institution that is the Bar Council and they ain't shiftin'... Thankfully, my central nervous system seems to still be remarkably receptive to the effects of massive doses of nicotine and caffeine... Quote
Blatman Posted March 28, 2006 Posted March 28, 2006 Bankruptcy hearing? At the Strand or one of the regionals? Anyone we know? Quote
DanB Posted March 29, 2006 Posted March 29, 2006 Over at the RCJ, or 'over the road' as we refer to it. Almost certainly not anyone here knows, and he's now bankrupt... Quote
Blatman Posted March 29, 2006 Posted March 29, 2006 Well if nothing else, bankruptcy is better than a CCJ IMO. Paying his court fees might be problematic though... Don't forget to wave at the gathered throng outside when there are big appeals going on. One of them might be me Quote
DanB Posted March 29, 2006 Posted March 29, 2006 Ah, I always go in the back entrance (ooo er missus) on Carey Street as it's closest to Chambers so I generally avoid the crowds. I did once end up walking straight into a fast-moving and rather grumpy-looking Tom Walkinshaw when he was leaving court after one of the High Court hearings about the death throes of Arrows F1. Quote
Blatman Posted March 29, 2006 Posted March 29, 2006 Your chambers are in LIF then, not The Temple? Quote
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