THE SIXTH LEGAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC CONTEST: 2021 – WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE SECRET BARRISTER: BECOME A LYRIC WRITER AND GET A PRIZE SIGNED BY THE SECRET BARRISTER: SUPPORTING FOOD BANKS
The Legal Christmas Music contest is back, for the sixth year running. All that is required to enter is that you make, or agree you will make, a donation to a food bank: after that is (as ever) down to…
WITNESS EVIDENCE AND CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE: THE COURT CONSIDERS WHAT WAS SAID – 17 YEARS AFTER THE EVENT
In HTR v Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 3228 (QB) Mr Justice Cotter considered the issue of the reliability of witness evidence when the events being considered occurred 17 years previously. It is an example of the kind…
SKELETON ARGUMENTS: NOT TOO LONG, NOT TOO SHORT: MISSIVE FROM THE HIGH COURT: THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING THEM “JUST RIGHT”
In Overd & Ors v The Chief Constable of Avon And Somerset Constabulary [2021] EWHC 3100 (QB) Mr Justice Linden reminded advocates of the guidance relating to skeleton arguments. One was too long, the other too short. THE…