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English lawyer and judge. Architecturally inclined.
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Increasingly, tenants are being told by local authorities not to vacate their property under a s.21 notice until court order. But that now incurs a cost of the £404 court fee + fixed costs, which is then passed onto the tenant at the most financially precarious time in their life.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I likewise credit this immense groove for a lifelong obsession with all things jazz-funk. A great dissection here for the music geeks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMtG...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

"Litigants in person must not think that by writing emails to a court office during ongoing proceedings, they will receive legal advice in response. Furthermore, an email raising questions about their case is not the same as a formal application for determination by a judge." (¶42) 100 times yes.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Some clearer guidance for family bundles would also be welcome. Of my 6 cases today, one had a 961-page core bundle and a 1,298-page 'supplemental' bundle. Another had a mere 462-page core bundle but also a 1,076-page disclosure bundle. It can be tough to find the wood for the (many, many) trees.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The improbably lovely Hinsdale County Courthouse (1877) is Colorado's oldest courthouse still used for its originally intended purpose and a rare surviving example of a frame courthouse building. Even rarer perhaps are the multiple deer heads adorning the courtroom interior.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

There is a high probability that this was an AI generated hallucination; "The two page 'summary' was written in a style that made me think the author was a lawyer familiar with the Judgments Regulation, but whose first language is not English."(§103)

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

1/4 I often need to remind advocates of the importance of liaising with a litigant-in-person opponent prior to a hearing. This includes handing them a printed copy of a skeleton argument or position statement and explaining what it is. It is both professional and a basic courtesy.

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

The DLR needs to up its game as a matter of urgency.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

"Further, the court ORDERS that, on or before December 31, 2024, counsel for both Plaintiff and Defendants are to go to lunch together. Plaintiff’s counsel will pay the bill; Defendants’ counsel will leave the tip.” Must have missed that in CPR r.3.9.

submitted 97 days ago • 3 comments

An absolutely gangbusters bit of court architecture. Caen’s New (2015) Law Courts possess clear spatial planning and purist aesthetics. Not to mention a tree in the the circular central atrium spanning all 5 floors. It makes me miss Truro's erstwhile foliage. www.archdaily.com/793047/new-l...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

The iconic roof of the Antwerp Law Courts (2005) bears more than a passing resemblance to Star Wars' T-4a Imperial Shuttle.

submitted 151 days ago • 1 comment

A slim but important and illuminating read on the experience of LiPs in the County Court from @leader-kate.bsky.social I would recommend it to lawyers and judges alike. Cracking cover too.

submitted 168 days ago • 1 comment

Limitations and risks of AI in the justice system highlighted once more. "Prosecutors and judges may rely on AI-generated content for critical decisions without fully grasping its limitations or biases...at trial, he notes the challenges in cross-examining opaque AI-generated content."

submitted 187 days ago • 1 comment