Category Archives: campaigns

Occupy: a civil disobedience campaign to change the world or just a camp site?

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

On Monday night, just after midnight, the police and bailiffs moved in to evict the anti-capitalist protestors from the Occupy London camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral.  The protestors stressed their action wasn’t over but most did not resist the arm … Continue reading →

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When is a job not a job? When it’s ‘work experience’

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

I could have been a lawyer.  I don’t mean in the way that anyone could, in theory, become a lawyer if they wanted to.  I mean because I went to Oxbridge and I came from a family who could afford … Continue reading →

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What price freedom of information?

Posted on February 15, 2012 by

It looks as if the assault on freedom of information is underway.  According to Ministry of Justice research, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has not improved decision-making, has failed to increase understanding of government and may even have reduced … Continue reading →

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Stephen Lawrence: The Daily Mail can take credit, but it was evidence wot won it

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

Despite my previous post, it turns out good things can happen in 2012.  It is a qualified good, however, as the convictions of Gary Dobson and David Norris for the murder of Stephen Lawrence in South London in 1993 have … Continue reading →

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In defence of personal injury lawyers: One man’s crusade to ban PPD

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

Sometimes things happen that really make you stop and think.  Often it happens when normal people are just going about their normal business and then something extraordinary happens to them.  Sadly it’s not normally anything good.  But it’s striking because … Continue reading →

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