Paul Beckett, of Mannin Chambers on the Isle of Man, must be the most-tattooed lawyer in the British Isles (the IoM is not part of the UK, nor a full part of the EU, and has its own legal system, albeit close to English law).
Here’s a picture from a recent exhibition at Mall Galleries:
For more, see the article on My Weekend in the Times Online.
1. Chappell Pascoe Solicitors call themselves ‘The long and short of legal advice’, as their photo shows.
2. LAWgical has posted links to videos for German law students.
Juristische Lehrfilme von Tele-Jura auf Youtube.
3. A later entry links to the active German law tutorial on Second Life.
4. The Advocate General Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer has recommended to the European Court of Justice that it should be sufficient for the Impressum (legal notice) on a website to give email contact details – a second means of communication, such as a phone number, should not be needed. The court is not obliged to agree, of course.
See heise.online
Der Europäische Gerichtshof ist dabei, die bisherige deutsche Rechtsprechung zu kippen: Ein Online-Diensteanbieter muss neben der elektronischen Post nicht noch für einen zweiten Kommunikationsweg sorgen, empfahl jetzt Generalanwalt Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer dem Europäischen Gerichtshof in Luxemburg (EuGH) in seinem Schlussantrag. Es ist damit zu rechnen, dass sich der EuGH seiner Begründung anschließen und innerhalb der kommenden drei Monate sein Urteil verkünden wird.
(and also Telepolis – via Handakte WebLAWg)
This was taken on May 6 at about 10 a.m. at the entrance to the Hainberg. Actually, I saw a lot of oak trees but no processionary caterpillars, nor the people out fighting them. In the past couple of days, helicopters have apparently been spraying.
A copse with an infestation of Nordic walkers:
I’m not sure why the Nordic walkers are congregating here, but they may be attracted by the shade.
Time for the annual asparagus rant. I understand that people in this country much prefer white asparagus. Unfortunately, that means they have to peel it, as it doesn’t have the innate delicate melting quality of green asparagus.
The curiously punctuated Munich weblog delicious:days has an entry called The white asparagus deal according to which some sellers at the Viktualienmarkt will actually peel your asparagus for you and give you the peelings in a bag to make soup (see their photo).
Meanwhile, here are some tools to get at asparagus in a shop window in Fürth:
These were the New Statesman‘s readers’ suggestions for misleading advice for foreigners visiting London for the first time:
Never pay the price demanded for a newspaper; good-natured haggling is customary.
Never attempt to tip a taxi-driver.
On first entering an underground train, it is customary to shake hands with every passenger.
Try the famous echo in the British Museum Reading Room.
Visitors in London hotels are expected by the management to hang the bedlinen out of the windows to air.
Parking is permitted in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on payment of a small fee to the sentry.
London barbers are delighted to shave the patrons’ armpits.
I read them in the 1960s, and later they were reprinted in a book, long since out of print. This is the first time I have found them on the Internet, in the blog I spilled the beans, in which William encourages the English of – er – foreigners.
From October this year, judges in civil cases in England, including family cases, will be wearing no wigs and new robes by the fashion designer Betty Jackson.
Barristers and criminal-law judges will be keeping their wigs. Some say it makes it harder for villains to recognize them.
At present, the judges wear several different types of robe on different occasions.
The new robes dispense with wing collars and bands. The collar looks a bit like a dressing-gown (bathrobe to some). The exciting bit is two coloured stripes below the collar, recalling the different colours and styles of traditional robes.
The Times reports:
The gown is made of a dark navy gaberdine and wool mix, trimmed with velvet on the cuffs and facings. The version for women has a pleated white removable ruff.
Coloured bands incorporated in the outfit are a nod to tradition and denote seniority. There is gold for the Court of Appeal judges and heads of High Court divisions; red for the High Court judges; lilac for circuit judges when they sit as deputy High Court judges; blue for the district judges. The colour for masters and registrars has yet to be decided.
The gown is described as a simple continental-style gown.
Lord Phillips only modelled the men’s version. Why do women get some white?