Article |
Date posted |
|
|
|
|
Justice uncovered: a unique and revealing insight into the flaws and
frustrations of Britain's courts (External link)
What really goes on in a judge's chambers? The Observer, granted
unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to one court, learns of the
frustrations that beset a judge who has been publicly criticised as too
lenient |
11 June 2006 |
Windows Genuine Advantage
My experience of migrating to
Windows XP using a small computer supplier. |
May 2006 |
Savings & Pensions
UK
Misplaced faith in the system
and all the promises, and how we all get robbed. |
Oct 2004 - moved here in Nov
2005 |
A crisis of professional self-regulation – the example of the solicitors’
profession
"In recent years
self-regulation by the solicitors’ profession may be described as being in
crisis. Failures can be seen at all levels, from the appropriate
resolution of low-level complaints, to protecting the public from
dishonest and other seriously miscreant solicitors."
Full article, also available in
pdf format, is available on the Cardiff Centre for Ethics Law & Society
web site by clicking the above link |
21 Sept 2005 |
Compensation for Inadequate
Professional Services
By Richard Moorhead, Professor
Avrom Sherr, and Sarah Rogers
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies |
06 Sept 2005 |
Self regulation
and the market for legal services - Richard Moorhead |
14 Feb 2005 |
Man of Letters
- Just trawling my diaries, really. Strange echoes, though. |
12 Aug 2004 |
Management-
Professional Indemnity: Cause and effect. (Link to Legal Week) |
18
Jul 2004 |
Dithering FSA fails us all. (external link - This is Money) |
26 Jun 2004 |
GEE WHIZZ! JUDGE FOR
YOURSELF? - A take on the Judge Richard Gee affair by Joe Lloyd |
03 Jun 2004 |
Litigation crisis? This way to the casualty department -
copyright Times Newspapers |
22 May 2004 |
The Law
Society is living in the past - copyright Times Newspapers |
22 May 2004 |
About Solicitors and
Barristers
A
reasonably up to date take on the professions by the European Business
Management School |
16 Feb 2004 |
A
costly way to Learn
An
additional, independent take on the Rogue Traders case. |
12 Feb 2004 |
Plain speaking in court at last (? Ed) (External link)
"But also I hated the language that the law is couched in. Not because
it's old-fashioned, as such, but because it's pompous. Unbearably,
maddeningly, mind-numbingly pompous." Mark Fisher, BBC, From Our Own
Correspondent. |
|
Combating Prime Bank and
High-Yield Investment Fraud
Speech by Rosalind Wright, Director, Serious Fraud Office. |
|
Open to Persuasion? |
|
A
take on fraud in the United Kingdom |
|
Message from the Director. |
|
The
U.S. Department of Justice and its agencies are a way ahead of the United
Kingdom in recognising the need for action against fraud. |
|
Victims of Fraud - Emotional Harm |
|
Individual victims of fraud might recognise the effects on themselves. |
|
Panic Disorder Explained |
|
Many victims of fraud experience a heavy toll on their health. The
American Psychological Association defines the stresses and symptoms
experienced, and how they can be treated. |
|
Abuse of Power |
|
How
offshore FOREX money and dispassionate lawyers abuse due process to rid
the Internet of their being exposed. |
|
When
Democracy Failed |
|
Thom Hartmann writes for CommonDreams.org, expressing his views on the
fragility of democracy and how we should all be alert to threats against
it, no matter how alluring and beguiling they might be perceived as being
in response to catastrophe or hostility. |
|
The Misuse of Enduring Powers of Attorney (external link) |
|
Tom
Dumont examines the position of financial institutions dealing with
attorney instructions and the problems for them in ignoring misuse of such
powers |
|
Points of law - coming soon |
|
In
Strictest Confidence - in preparation
London solicitors lend credibility to High Yield Investment Program (HYIP)
scammers. |
|
General Fraud |
|
Another American take on the impact of fraud. Most countries are fighting
fraud, but Britain encourages it. |
|
Judge Richard Gee |
|
The
powerful enjoy immunity, while the law treats the powerless ever more
harshly. |
|
The Future of Law |
|
Some thoughts on the future of legal services provision, and the nature of
regulatory and representative functions of legal professional bodies. |
|
Extraordinary Practice
Direction 218 |
01 Sept 2003 |
Ruffling some wigs and gowns. |
|
Tip for Fraudsters |
|
Don't waste time
and effort devising complex schemes - do it the easy way. |
04 Sept 2003 |
The Law Society |
|
A montage of
current news and views about The Law Society in England and Wales. |
30 Sept 2003 |
Expertise and
ethics in the Legal Profession
An interesting study by Richard H. S. Tur, Oriel College,
Oxford. ( Mr Tur's teaching pages are mirrored
here) |
18 Oct 2003 |
In praise of idleness
Bertrand Russell argued with sublime logic the merits of using technology
to alleviate the rigours of life instead of waging war and generally
creating misery. |
08 Nov 2003 |
White-Collar Crime and the Issue of trust (external link)
Basia Spalek explores the relationships of trust and distrust between the
offender, the victims, regulators and the wider financial system in a
particular case of white-collar crime. See also:
News Aug 2007 |
20 Dec 2003 |
Rotten Britain |
|
Attempted Judicial Review of The FSA Fails (external
link)
Although implementation of the Second Money
Laundering Directive of 2001 in the form of the 2003 Money Laundering
Regulations has been delayed, the year to date has seen radical
developments in anti-laundering laws and rules. |
08
May 2004 |
|
|
|
|