Washing machine magnates and Ukuleles – the bizarre David Bowie route to stardom! Manchester Barrister Jaime Hamilton details an ‘Epic Fail’ from the Ministry of Justice.
‘Mom’ takes two year old
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Slater & Gordon – Part 764.
Legal regulators in Victoria, Australia, have woken up to the dangers posed to ‘vulnerable clients’ by
Continue reading →The ‘Falsely Accused’ Strike Back.
Close to the Canadian border, in a small township called Watton, two unassuming Christian folk, Lale and Joan Roberts, had brought up their three daughters. It was the sort of community where nothing much ever happened. They may yet
Continue reading →A kiss is just a kiss? Depends who you are!
The ‘outrage bus’ is doing wheelies round the Sunderland Football Club car park as it awaits its ritualistic joy-ride through Twitter when Adam Johnson’s sentence is deemed too soft… as it will be if just one week short of
Continue reading →Just say ‘No’.
*Yawn*. Apologies once again for my absence. Ms Raccoon has once more been stress testing the NHS, Keeping Mr G on his toes, resolving to return to my previous diet of salmon and rice as being the only food
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Justice Edition….
Avoids £89,246.33 court costs – affords £89,950 BMW sports car. Justice, Briscoe style.
Barrister Blogger’s expert dissection of the Andrew Picard case – otherwise known as 100,000 idiots petition
Continue reading →Corrie’s Dad.
Farewell then, Tony Warren, you served us well. They announced your death on Twitter – thus neatly spanning the two worlds you inhabited.
You brought the flat and raucous tones of the wildings south; displayed the wit and
Continue reading →Playing Soft Ball.
We awoke this morning to the news that the BBC had discovered fresh dangers lurking in the undergrowth to damage your children for life.
Not all children, naturally. Those who play football are apparently safe, despite the
Continue reading →Jungle Drums.
I was always amazed that the French managed to have a Revolution. One of the first things you notice in France is how incredibly disciplined everyone is. Compared to the English, that is.
The children, from
Continue reading →The Slater and Gordon, ‘False Allegations’ Popcorn Show.
Around midnight last night, Ms Raccoon’s e-mail pinged with an exceptional morsel from Tom Winnifrith, the experienced and multi-talented financial journalist who was responsible for uncovering the frauds that lay at the heart of Rob Terry’s empire. That
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Moor Larkin celebrates an achievement – 500 forensically painstakingly researched articles on the Savile phenomena. (Yes, it did make me check – I have written 274 over a longer period, and even then not so closely focussed).
Continue reading →The Savile Memorial Celebrations…
100 years ago last year, a bitter little man, a man who hoped to be ‘somebody’ one day, a man with his head full of the ‘injustices’ of his life, but who, despite his poor background had had
Continue reading →The Dame Janet Smith Review.
The BBC was off to a cracking start this morning – commencing with the ceremonial hurling of the sacrificial spent carcass of yet another DJ from the top of BBC Towers to the waiting mob below – Tony Blackburn.
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Parish Notice.
Ms Raccoon would like to apologise for leaving you all in the dark last week – and to thank you for behaving so well with no one watching over you.
I have had several e-mails asking
Continue reading →The right to defend yourself against sexual allegations?
A fascinating case has been making its way through the legal system unnoticed by all bar a few legal practitioners. The media are uninterested – they cannot name or photograph the parties and there are absolutely no celebrities,
Continue reading →(They Long to be) Close to EU.
Just like me, they long to be close to you.
Why do stars fall down from the sky, ev’ry time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be close to you.
Let the pantomime
Continue reading →The Presumption of Innocence.
There was a howl of outrage when it appeared that the Presumption of Innocence had been suspended for those individuals with a penchant for strapping explosives around their waist and ensuring that the police had a neat pile
Continue reading →‘Saint’ Bernard Hogan-Howe safe – but is he a ‘Pussyfoot’?
I have always been of the opinion that the age of ‘Savilisation’, a term I invented and now proudly watch as it propagates through the media, was a perfect storm of tensions between the media, the
Continue reading →Not yet ‘Settle’d.
Mark Watts was busy picking the cherries out of the Operation Vincente review conducted by Deputy Chief Constable James Vaughan of Dorset Police.
Met was right to interview Lord Brittan over rape – review.
Continue reading →Re S (Children)
Case No: B4/2015/0191 & 0192
Neutral Citation Number: [2016] EWCA Civ 83
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE DISTRICT
Continue reading →Dignity and Depravity.
A thought has been buzzing around in my head for some time now – you’ll just have to bear with me. Nothing else will get written until I rid my brain of
Continue reading →Necro-nonce© policing and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.
Every single working day of the past year; every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday – and come to that – most Saturdays for good measure, a senior and specially trained police officer of the gender requested by
Continue reading →Bridge on the River Kwai.
And before the pedants point it out – it was actually about 200 miles East of the Kwai. I wasn’t going to waste the headline though!
In Pattaya, that den of iniquity, the denizens of antiquity
Continue reading →Rough Kids – Rough Love.
It was a stroke of genius, ten years ago, for Ms Camila Batmanghelidjh to invite documentary maker, Lynn Alleyway, into her multi-coloured harem to film her charitable work with underprivileged kids – ‘Tough Kids – Tough Love‘. It
Continue reading →Surrey Police and Lynne Owens.
If Surrey Police appear at times to have a symbiotic relationship with the Metropolitan Police, it could date back to the days when districts like Epsom, Elmbridge and Reigate were the province of the Metropolitan Police, and were
Continue reading →Slater & Gordon’s annus horribilis.
Long ago, there was a country club with a golf course called ‘Quindell’. A man called Rob Terry ran it, despite his previous company, Innovation Group, apparently vanishing up its own backside – leaving him some £12 million to
Continue reading →Chugger chokes Mugger.
‘Give a Smile UK’ describes itself as a ‘social enterprise’. In practice that means they take local people who have been ‘affected by the recession’ and unable to find full or even part-time employment
Operation Notarise.
October 2014 – and as ‘many as 20,000 to 30,000‘ potential sex offenders, or vile perverts in tabloidese, had been identified. There was outrage that all those on the list provided by the National Crime Agency hadn’t been
Continue reading →The Taming of the Screw?
Once upon a time, children, in this septic isle, we used to slope off to Sunday School in order to learn the rules of moral transgression. Moral authority was exclusively the preserve of the Church, who denounced sinners
Continue reading →CPS accused of suppressing police corruption evidence.
It would seem self-evident that London and the UK is the world centre for laundering ill-gotten gains – house prices in London didn’t reach their current stratospheric heights as a result of decent honest businessmen competing to house
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