The four inns of court in London are organizations that barristers belong to, and their names are also used to refer to the areas of London they own. They are called Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln’s Inn and Gray’s Inn. To make this clearer, here’s a brief flash tour of three inns of court.
Ethno:log beschreibt eine Möglichkeit, für direkte Hilfe in einem Fischerdorf nahe Pondicherry zu spenden.
Details of the above project are available only in German (Ethno:log, via Mosaikum). Professor Laubscher of the Ethnology department at Munich University has a house on the coast near Pondicherry that the wave did not quite reach and is involved in a project that has been going on for 30 years. Money is intended to help the locals help themselves. Among other things, 6 fishing boats for 3000 euros each are needed.
System by Jeremy Grove, via MoCo Loco and netbib.weblog.
This is Höffi, the mascot of the huge furniture shop Möbel Höffner, which has been promising to build in Fürth for a couple of years now.
Meanwhile, the no less wily Möbel XXXLutz has opened in Nuremberg.
It seems that Möbel Lutz has bought a small piece of land interrupting Möbel Höffner’s prospective connection to the motorway.
bq. Was den Neubau hinauszögern könnte: Im Bereich der geplanten neuen Autobahnauffahrt bei Steinach hat Möbel Lutz ein Sperrgrundstück (einen so genannten Schikanierzwickel) erworben. Die nun nötigen Grundstücksverhandlungen sind er-fahrungsgemäß langwierig.
(Fürther Nachrichten – link unlikely to last).
Zwickel means gusset or gore or spandrel; schikanieren is to harass someone. There are a few Google hits for Schikanierzwickel – the Amtsblatt der Stadt Radebeul actually apologizes for using the term (it apparently hadn’t heard of Sperrgrundstück).
bq. Auch das im Amtsblatt 2/2000 angesprochene Schikanierzwickel – für diesen Ausdruck entschuldigen wir uns hiermit – ist in dem für den Straßenbau erforderlichen Umfang durch die Eigentümerin zur Verfügung gestellt worden.
However, Höffner has got its revenge by buying Franken Wohnland, at the next exit along from IKEA, so until the big building goes up it can sell from there.
On top of this, there’s the ongoing saga of the planned mineral baths and the attempts at sabotage by Herr Steiner of the bath once known as Palm Beach and now Kristall Palm Beach, of which more another time (history of mineral baths in Fürth).
Breaking news on In Brief reveals a case of sexual equality where a woman allegedly spiked two men’s drinks with Rohypnol and robbed them:
bq. Banker Volker Vogler met Hakki in the rooftop bar of Londons Park Lane Hilton. She went back to his home with him and literally stole the clothes off his back disappearing while he was unconscious with a £100 pair of black Versace jeans with £100 in the pocket, a Versace jumper, three pairs of shoes and an £850 Omega watch, as well as a Tiffany alarm clock and a bottle of red wine, according to the prosecution. Her second alleged victim, Alexander Jovy, also found items missing after going back to his flat with Hakki and falling unconscious, the court heard. The case continues.
The article says she ‘slipped them a Mickey Finn’ – good to see traditional terms preserved. The first time I heard of Rohypnol was a couple of years ago in court here in Germany, where the effects of the substance were described but the judge refused to name it for fear of encouraging others, apparently. I had to do some Internet searching before I got the name.
EISIL is a site developed by the American Society of International Law to provide links to the best online primary materials.
The site was recommended by Delia Venables. I regularly look at her page on new sites for lawyers.
Another good page of many on Delia’s site gives links to legal newspapers and journals.