Tagged: lawyers

Friday, June 20, 2008 By Edward McGarr

Read Me

In: Legal profession, Solicitors
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We have to stop working every now and then. I read the Sherlock Holmes body of work a long time ago, but the classics never die and so I have made reference to Sherlock Holmes HERE and perhaps have given the impression that a life in the law is a life in crime or close to it (by and large, it is not; think of Kenneth Starr whose natural habitat was in corporate law and Government administration). What might a […]

Monday, May 26, 2008 By Edward McGarr

A Laughing Stock

In: Injuries Board, Legal profession, Personal Injury Claims
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Now, we risk being the laughing stock of Australia (and the UK in due course) because none of our lawyers have sold shares in themselves.

Thursday, April 10, 2008 By Edward McGarr

At Swim Two Coves

In: General
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I have just learned of Fuzzy Logic, bringing me to read the Wikipedia article on Bart Kosko and am struck by the familiarity of it all. Surely Bart Kosko is a character created by Flann OâBrien? Evidence? Here it is: He is a leading researcher of fuzzy logic, neural networks, and noise, and author of several trade books and textbooks on these and related subjects..â? Kosko has a distinctive minimalist prose style, not even using commas in his last several […]

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 By Edward McGarr

Laconic speech

In: Misc
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You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.

Monday, February 11, 2008 By Edward McGarr

Lawyers

In: Human Rights, Legal profession, Solicitors
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If you are a lawyer, you stand between the abuse of governmental power and the individual.

Thursday, February 7, 2008 By Edward McGarr

The Source of Law?

In: Human Rights, Politics, Public Health
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…and no man knows when they were first put forth.

Monday, February 4, 2008 By Edward McGarr

Reds, Whites, Blues, Greens

In: Case Study, Legal profession, Professions
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It was a moment of pure (unfair) competition. The parties had struggled for three and a half days and now the judge had leaped into the forensic arena, cuffing the Defendant’s lawyers.