Judging from Philip Greenspun’s weblog, it doesn’t sound as if Germans are very welcome in some parts of Oklahoma.

The New Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (main page).

bq. – i d: Her in Englalande on Niwgearnihte wæs heard wind on Englalande ond snaw on Scotlande ond Norþymbrum ond sare derede þa Niwgearmærunge. Ond of þæt cwom great wana electricitatis in Scotlande ond Norþymbrum.

Via Persistent Illusions (main page).

Über advobLAWg:

Neues Weblog über Recht, Sport und Managementvon Rechtsanwalt Mustafa Bakraç. Von dort:

Der Winkelschreiber (Tübingen).

Bei dieser Gelegenheit wiederhole ich das Link zu mindermeinung.de, “das Internetportal von und für Leipziger Jurastudenten”.

Above are links to two new German law weblogs and one portal for Leipzig law students. (The word Winkelschreiber was briefly discussed in an earlier entry of mine).

Practicesource links to a newish French law blog called Juriblog (in French, of course), which looks like a useful portal.

Artikeln aus The Barrister (Zeitschrift) bilden einen Weblog. Die Erfolge im US-amerikanischen Rechtssystem und dem in Großbritannien bei Gruppenklagen in den USA und in Großbritannien werden z.B. in einem Artikel verglichen (Datum 24.03.04, Permalink funktioniert bei mir nicht).

Practicesource, the Australian portal, is hosting a new weblog called the barrister.

The most recent entry (24.03.04) is by Toby Duthie, of Forensic Risk Alliance, an Anglo-American company that works with plaintiffs in multi-party litigation.

It discusses the difference between the US and the UK in litigation. Nowadays one of the comments made about litigation that seems to recur in the UK is that Britain is a worse place to live in since it took over the US litigation culture. This is stated by those with no knowledge of the American system or understanding of the difference between that and the UK system. The entry tries to show why the American system is not so bad and the UK system is unsatisfactory.

It compares results in the DEM10 billion German Slave Labour Holocaust settlement; and the USD1.25 billion Swiss Bank settlement.

bq. Few people have argued that this US compensation culture is positive and should be viewed as a sign of a healthy society whose citizens are knowledgeable about their rights and are sufficiently empowered in the majority of instances to ensure that they are not breached. This is certainly a view that we hold and tire of instances both here and in the US of people arguing against this armed with a list of well-publicised exceptions. …

bq. There is no question in my mind, as someone who works on both sides of the Atlantic on complex mass claims, that US citizens have far better access to justice than their UK counterparts and that US companies, accordingly, are better at handling their liabilities (both after the event and pre-emptively) – which must be a good thing.

Actually, this is an article from The Barrister magazine, as are most of the entries, so this is not quite the usual web log.

(Via Delia Venables) Criminal Solicitor Dot Net is a criminal law portal run by Gavin Burrell, who has been a criminal solicitor (this means a solicitor dealing with criminal law) for six years in East London.
There are forums (you have to register if you want to contribute) and there is a newsfeed which is just taken (with permission) from the UK Criminal Justice Weblog.

Diary of a Criminal Solicitor is accessible without registration and it is a day-to-day account of Gavin’s working life. I’m posting a small example:

bq. Wednesday 24th March 2004
I went to an Magistrates Court in Essex today to deal with a failing to provide case. After I identified that the case was a possible malfunctioning intoximeter case I went in to Court where my Client pleaded not guilty and I explained that the case was not straightforward as there would be lengthy disputes regarding disclosure between the Prosecution and myself. The Court Clerk got rather excited that there was a complex case in his Court room and asked if I could write to the Court explaining that the case would involve complicated disclosure issues so that he could arrange for a District Judge to be brought in for the hearings. I was amused how the thought of a District Judge working in his Court made the Court Clerk visibly excited. After yesterday’s long day I was glad to spend my afternoon in my office.

This district judge is the one that used to be a stipendiary magistrate, a barrister or solicitor working alone, rather like an Einzelrichter, and not needing a court clerk to advise him or her on the law. Could it be that the court clerk (I think this means the magistrates’ clerk, who is a lawyer too and advises the lay magistrates) was looking forward to a day watching?