December 30, 2012 – 1:00 am
It’s fair to say that this blog, although newsy, is not a news site. It represents the eclectic contributions of a group of people with disparate interests to whatever happens to take their fancy. Fair and accurate, yes (lawyers tend to be paranoid about this sort of thing), but comprehensive and unbiased, no. To that [...]
December 24, 2012 – 8:01 am
The above was an oft-repeated observation of my mother’s, whenever some of what a Buddhist would probably consider karma landed in my lap after I’d been a bit of a shit. Among Europeans, the phrase (and the reaction) seems to be commoner in Celtic cultures, although I’m sure it has its residues elsewhere. To that [...]
December 23, 2012 – 9:17 am
A friend who works in the City sent me the picture on the left; it is an advertisement for the Bushmaster .223, the rifle used in Sandy Hook. He’d attached it to a report indicating that Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm that owns much of the Freedom Group–of which Bushmaster is part–was trying to [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in History, Human/Civil rights, Law
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Tagged 2nd Amendment, Bedlam, Bill of Rights, Bushmaster, Connecticut, Hogarth, Martial, mental illness, Newtown, NRA, Poe, Sandy Hook Elementary
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December 19, 2012 – 1:01 pm
Today, as promised, I’m going to talk about Sandy Hook Elementary. I’m also not going to provide you with any easy answers or solutions. This means that if you don’t want to acknowledge the grim reality that public policy is hard, stop reading now lest you get to the end of this piece and find [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Law, Public Policy
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Tagged 2nd Amendment, AR-15, Bill of Rights, Charlie Brooker, concealed carry, gun laws, Guy Rundle, Ilana Mercer, Newtown, Sandy Hook Elementary, statistics, USA, Voyeurism
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December 17, 2012 – 6:16 am
Making sense of the world requires–nay, demands–that we find patterns in events. And, as part of modernity, we’ve become used to the clear-headed, formalised pattern-finding of law and science. There are ways to look for explanations, and things that ought properly to be discarded along the way. That’s why we have ‘legal method’ and ‘scientific [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Law, Science, Skeptics, Tort
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Tagged 2DayFM, Bolam Test, Cardozo J, Charlie Brooker, Dom Joly, Jacintha Saldhana, legal method, Matt Rubinstein, Palsgraf v Long Island Railway Co, Sandy Hook Elementary, scientific method, The Fisher King, Westboro Baptist Church
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December 13, 2012 – 7:01 pm
one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Australia, Free Speech, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Politics, Public Policy, Racism, Society
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Tagged Alan Jones, apologies, apology, Cronulla riots, keysar trad, mongrels, Racism, remedies, Sydney, vermin
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December 11, 2012 – 4:26 pm
I recently moved moved house from inner Western Melbourne (Seddon) to outer Western Melbourne (Truganina), hence my absence from blogging. The most direct way to the nice new house (and it is a nice new house, a vast improvement on the decrepit dump my housemate and I were previously renting) is along a road which has [...]
December 8, 2012 – 6:06 am
I love cases. I simply love cases. I love the drama of them, and I love to go hunting for extra facts about the case. The case of Lumley v Wagner (1852) 1 De GM & G 604; 42 ER 687 involved Johanna Wagner, a famous German singer (and the niece of Richard Wagner). She [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in History, Law, Music, Personal liberty, Saturday chit-chat, Tort
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Tagged Benjamin Lumley, contract, Frederick Gye, inducing breach of contract, Johanna Wagner, lumley v gye, lumley v wagner
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December 7, 2012 – 8:18 pm
An interactive map showing the location of bombs dropped on London during World War II has been created. It reveals the devastation caused by the Blitz over eight months. The year-long project, called Bomb Sight, was devised by a team from the University of Portsmouth using data from the National Archives. The website and android [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Defence, Fark!, Funnies, History, Popular culture, Terrorism
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Tagged bomb sight, jisc, London bomb census, national archives, The Blitz, university of portsmouth, WWII
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December 1, 2012 – 9:02 am
Today I came across an interesting post, via Letters of Note, which details a letter which a former slave, Jourdon Anderson, wrote to his former master, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee. Colonel Anderson had written to Jourdon Anderson, requesting him to come back to work on his farm. According to sources of the [...]
