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THE BALLAD OF READING COUNTY COURT LIFT: IN POETRY

THE BALLAD OF READING COUNTY COURT LIFT: IN POETRY

May 12, 2019 · by gexall · in Access to justice, Members Content

Barrister Rawdon Crozier has put the plight of Reading County Court life into a poem. It speaks for itself, as all good poetry should.   The Ballad of Reading County Court Lift I never saw a lift which looked With…

THE BALLAD OF READING COUNTY COURT LIFT: THIS IS A TRAGEDY NOT A COMEDY

THE BALLAD OF READING COUNTY COURT LIFT: THIS IS A TRAGEDY NOT A COMEDY

May 12, 2019 · by gexall · in Access to justice, Members Content

The earlier post about the Twitter account of  broken lift in Reading County Court has already led to a lot of responses.  This is a battle being fought with humour, however its consequences are serious, profoundly serious.  Many people have…

THE BALLAD OF READING COUNTY COURT LIFT:  THE LIFT WITH ITS OWN TWITTER ACCOUNT - AN ESCALATING PROBLEM

THE BALLAD OF READING COUNTY COURT LIFT: THE LIFT WITH ITS OWN TWITTER ACCOUNT – AN ESCALATING PROBLEM

May 12, 2019 · by gexall · in Access to justice, Members Content, Useful links

Last week I went to Reading County Court.  This was a new court to me and I asked the Legal Twitterati for directions (“out of the station turn left at Snappy Snaps”, for anyone who needs to know). What was…

JUDGE REFUSES TO RECUSE HIMSELF: DEFENDANT APPEALS: APPEAL DISMISSED: ANOTHER ROUND IN THE POST OFFICE SAGA:  ATTEMPTS TO HOLD THE COURT "IN TERROREM" SHOULD BE EXPLAINED

JUDGE REFUSES TO RECUSE HIMSELF: DEFENDANT APPEALS: APPEAL DISMISSED: ANOTHER ROUND IN THE POST OFFICE SAGA: ATTEMPTS TO HOLD THE COURT “IN TERROREM” SHOULD BE EXPLAINED

May 12, 2019 · by gexall · in Appeals, Applications, Members Content

I did not blog, immediately, after the judgment in Bates & Ors v Post Office Ltd (No 4) [2019] EWHC 871 (QB because I suspected (indeed it was inevitable, given its approach to this litigation) that the Post Office would…

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