
How do you know that your lawyer is really a lawyer, and a law firm is really a law firm?
Without a photographic image on the SRA website, or SRA ID cards, how do you know that your lawyers is really a lawyer, and a law firm is really a law firm?
Without a photographic image on the SRA website, or SRA ID cards, how do you know that your lawyers is really a lawyer, and a law firm is really a law firm?
“Behaviour is the mirror in which everyone shows their image” – Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (1749-1832).
Where Is Our Government’s Moral Compass?
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret’”
– Ambrose Bierce, influential journalist and author (1842 – 1914)
In the words of Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), has been called “arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history”:
“The True Measure Of A Man Is How He Treats Someone Who Can Do Him Absolutely No Good.”
When is a deal or agreement or settlement reached, full and final? A review of the case law.
Advocates Who Take Their Time, Say So Much More. “…a man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts
“Sir, when men of action meet, the place of the man of letters is inside his pencase”. Hassan, James Elroy Flecker (p60,1922)
I shall start with a quotation from Carl Von Clausewitz ‘On War’ in which he defines war as: ‘an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will’ (Book I,i,2).
Sun Tzu said: ‘The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting’.
Scruples 1: How do I say ‘no’ to my boss asking me to do something, I know is not right? You are fresh out of university. The boss asks you to backdate a signature which you know to be fraudulent and it will cause your employer a financial gain, but will destroy another business. What should you do? What will you do?
Valentine’s Day Proposals And Prenuptial Agreements? “Love Is The Wisdom Of The Fool And The Folly Of The Wise” Dr Samuel Johnson With Valentines Day upon us, it’s a timely discussion, some young (or not so young) couples, high-net worth individuals, or those who have been here before, may want to broach with their intended,
Lifting The Corporate Veil In English Law, why do limited companies exist? Why have limited liability at all? Limited liability encourages development of public markets for stock. It limits the risk of investors by the value of their shares in a company rather than unlimited liability and personal exposure. Salomon v Salomon & Company Limited
Blackmail And Sextortion “…Do You Feel A Creeping, Shrinking, Sensation, Watson, When You Stand Before The Serpents In The Zoo, And See The Slithery, Gliding, Venomous Creatures, With Their Deadly Eyes And Wicked Flattened Faces?…He Is The King Of All Blackmailers. Heaven Help The Man, And Still More The Woman, Whose Secret And Reputation Comes