The Barrister Blog

Do the locum-motion...

2013-05-24T13:11:00.000Z

Brought to you by our friends at the Sellick Partnership The economic woes of the past four years have forced many firms, especially those in the legal sector, to change and adapt their recruitment process to meet the pressures of spending cuts and the changing economic environment. Enter the world of the locum - a legal professional that can offer an encouraging light at the end of an

Help for small businesses from The Admin Agent

2013-05-20T12:11:00.002Z

A friend of mine called Kat Curtis who lives in Braunton runs The Admin Agent offering administrative help to small businesses and in particular with their monthly book-keeping and advertising. Details are above and you can see more information here.

Book Recommendation: Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University

2013-05-20T09:00:00.000Z

Letters to a Law Student relays all that a prospective law student needs to know before embarking on their studies. It provides a useful guide to those considering a law degree or conversion course and helps students prepare for what can be a daunting first year of study. Available from Amazon

Article on whether it's time for a unified legal profession @thelegalterrier

2013-05-19T15:37:00.001Z

I've done an article for a firm of solicitors on whether it's time to have a unified legal profession. You can read it here.

New Smartphone App Solves the Personal Injury Claim Puzzle

2013-05-14T12:28:00.002Z

Brought to you by our friends at Walker Prestons Solicitors Since the Government announced plans to ban referral fees, legal firms specialising in personal injury claims have been scratching their heads as to how best continue their levels of custom. Despite the large savings that they will make now that they will not be paying out referral fees, higher marketing costs may be incurred.

Book Recommendation: Legal Skills

2013-05-13T09:00:00.000Z

Legal Skills encompasses all the academic and practical legal skills essential to the law student in one manageable volume. It is an ideal text for first year law students and is also a valuable resource for those studying law at any level. Clearly structured in three parts, the book covers the full range of legal skills you will need to succeed from the beginning of your law degree, through

Article on claims flowing from defective products

2013-05-08T07:34:00.001Z

I've done an article for a firm of solicitors on claims flowing from defective products. You can read it here.

Book Recommendation: Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics)

2013-05-06T09:00:00.000Z

With his distinctive dark wit, Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall is a masterful social satire sending up the social mores of 1920s England, edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw in Penguin Modern Classics. Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an

Tackling nuisance telephone calls

2013-04-30T09:44:00.001Z

I've done an article for a firm of solicitors on tackling nuisance telephone calls. You can read it here.

Book Recommendation: The Dawn Patrol

2013-04-29T09:00:00.000Z

Boone Daniels is a laid-back kind of private investigator. He has sleuthing skills to burn but is rarely out of his boardshorts, and with a huge Pacific storm approaching San Diego, Boone wants to be there to ride the once-in-a-lifetime waves with his buddies in the Dawn Patrol. Unfortunately he's just landed a case involving one dead and one missing stripper, but with the help - or hindrance,

Weekend Video: Lee Child interview

2013-04-27T09:00:00.000Z

Book Recommendation: How the Law Works

2013-04-22T09:00:00.000Z

How the Law Works is a refreshingly clear and reliable guide to today’s legal system. Offering interesting and comprehensive coverage, it makes sense of all the curious features of the law in day to day life and in current affairs. Explaining the law and legal jargon in plain English, it provides an accessible entry point to the different types of law and legal techniques, as well as today's

Weekend Video: John Grisham interview

2013-04-20T09:00:00.000Z

Article on credit card rights

2013-04-19T12:31:00.002Z

I've done an article for a firm of solicitors on credit card rights. You can read it here.

Article on why the Jackson reforms will be counter-productive

2013-04-19T10:28:00.003Z

I've done an article for a blog I write for a firm of solicitors on why I think the Jackson reforms will be counter-productive and despite their intention will increase work for lawyers. You can read it here.

Will obligatory helmets impact the number of serious injuries for cyclists?

2013-04-18T15:11:00.003Z

Brought to you by our friends at Grieves Solicitors It is a debate which is continually addressed, reignited yet still controversial: the mandatory cycle helmet. The UK is embracing cycling, with more and more people choosing two wheels as their favoured mode of transport. Between 2011/12 there were some startling cycling related statistics: 594 cyclists were injured from car doors

Book Recommendation: Lawyers Uncovered: Everything You Always Wanted to Know, But Didn't Want to Pay £500 an Hour to Find Out

2013-04-15T19:50:00.000Z

The funny and subversive 'Queen's Counsel' cartoon strip has appeared on the law pages of "The Times" since 1993, delighting the legal profession and general readers alike with its accurate and biting send-up of the profession and its practices. Here - allegedly! - is the best of them. In these pages, readers will delight in Geoffrey Bentwood QC, who specialises in boring his clients to death,

Why it is important to ensure your property deeds are secure

2013-04-15T16:12:00.004Z

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Weekend Video: Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter

2013-04-13T09:00:00.000Z

Book Recommendation: Tales from the Courtroom

2013-04-08T09:00:00.000Z

Court-room dramas hold an endless fascination, but they are often a pale shadow of the real thing. Consider for example the case of the young man who, after being acquitted of his girlfriend’s murder, was challenged by the dead girl’s brother in a procedure which had not been used since the middle ages. It failed, but the facts of the case were recalled over a century later by another tragedy,

Weekend Video: Interview with playwright Jez Butterworth

2013-04-06T09:00:00.000Z

Book Recommendation: The Bench and Bar: Great Legal Caricatures from "Vanity Fair" by "Spy"

2013-04-01T09:00:00.000Z

Available from Amazon

Weekend Video: Mount Everest 2012

2013-03-30T09:00:00.000Z

Book Recommendation: The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons

2013-03-25T09:00:00.000Z

Available from Amazon

Weekend Video: Brilliant Speech by Harold Pinter

2013-03-23T09:00:00.000Z