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This might offer insight into an aspect of the Post Office scandal.
I had a case in the Court of Appeal once. Important client, commercially important point. We had lost in the County Court but I was pretty sure we would win the appeal as the judge had made a clear error in ..
.. interpreting the law.
The day before the appeal hearing, my unqualified (but very clever) clerk came up with an inconvenient point no one on either side had thought of. Actually, it was more than inconvenient. It was a killer.
I had a choice. I could tell our QC or ..
.. withhold the point & let him go ahead. Telling him had many disadvantages. I had assured my client the case was strong & might have to go into reverse & confess I had been wrong. Not telling him meant we would win the appeal & no one would be the wiser.
He abused some female footballers & pundits in an offensive manner. Vine covered this on his show. Barton retaliated with a series of posts insinuating Vine was inappropriately interested in children. Vine now sues.
Barton, who learned ..
.. his lessons on life in a tough part of Liverpool, thinks he cannot give ground as it would make him look weak. This isn’t a bad strategy in some situations but it’s fatal in civil litigation against an opponent who can afford it. It just means the eventual bill will be ..
.. very much higher.
Fox’s costs & damages liability amount to c. £2.2M & that doesn’t include his own costs. Bankruptcy awaits him. I expect the same will befall Barton whose tasteless boasts about his wealth I do not believe.
In the 1980s I worked for a leading criminal law firm, TV Edwards. They are still going now. I was based in their tiny two-man office in Harlesden, right across the road from Willesden County Court. Ours was very much a legal aid practise & me & my ..
.. boss were quite successful, making most of the firm’s profit.
The main office was (& is) over on the Mile End Rd in East London, where the serious criminals operated. Consequently, they got involved in some big cases. They pioneered the technique of examining notebook ..
.. pages underneath the ‘official’ ones & reading the text, discovering police misconduct thereby. That was one of the things that contributed to PACE which transformed police interviews.
The firm had been founded in the 30s by old Tom Edwards who, even in my time there, …
Been reading about the late Bronze Age collapse lately. Never heard of it until recently but it’s a very big deal. Somewhere around 1,200 BCE a whole bunch of highly advanced civilisations were ..
.. wiped out & a dark age descended over the eastern Med & the Middle East. Among the affected were the Mycenaeans, Hittites, Ugarit & Amorite states & the Canaans.
Now these states formed part of a globalised world of interdependent trade. The shipwreck that was recovered ..
.. off the Anatolian coast dates from the late 14th century BCE. It’s cargo was well preserved & included goods from far & wide. I find its design & construction remarkable. We’re not looking at a Welsh conical or a dugout canoe. An architect designed it & ..
I was once told by a civil airline pilot that anyone from the lowliest mechanic right on up could point out safety concerns without fear of reprimand. The opposite seems to have applied at Oceangate.
.. were regarded as ‘non safety critical’ but I’ve seen a convincing explanation (involving a cheap pair of scuba diving flippers) of why, in a hazardous environment, everything is safety critical.
Those who know something of the engineering problems have identified the ..
.. following as dangers:
• the hatch which could not be opened from the inside
• the absence of fixed seating & straps
• the tangle of external cables
• the game boy remote controller
• the carbon fibre hull (which is probably what failed)
• absence of emergency beacons ..
I’m presently absorbed by the Bronze Age Collapse which occurred in the decades around 1200 BC. The eastern med & middle & near east then formed a globalised world of delicate interdependence which was swept away by a combination of drought, famine, invasion & natural ...