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Preface I am now an officially retired lawyer, having decided  to give up my practising certificate on 31st October last having spent 44 yea...

 On 31st October, after practising the law for 46 years, I fully retired. I had various plans for my time but in truth, so far, have realise...

Since just about everybody else involved at the time of the independence referendum has had their say, I suppose I had better have mine.  Th...

 And so it is over.  I hesitated to say anything much about the election, not least because I was out of the Country for much of it, visitin...

 In the Summer of the year 2000, Maureen, my wife, and I went on holiday to central Italy. We stayed just outside the hilltop village of Pac...

 I have just finished two well read blogs about the Hate Crime Act concluding that it doesn't, in truth, materially change the law at al...

 Yesterday morning, I finished my blog under the shortened title in the last two words above. And to my astonishment, a civilised discussion...