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The Firework-Fun Fallacy on Nov 6, 2009 in Personal Injury From P&C Express 05/11/09: A health chief has warned that fireworks can have "devastating consequences" if they are not used safely. Ian Walton, accident and emergency operations director at Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Tr...

Technical Problems on Nov 5, 2009 in Random Contrary to popular belief, the Michael has not disappeared off the face of the earth, nor ducked out of the blawgosphere either. No, the reason for my lack of posting is based on the utter incompetence of certain 3rd parties. After a huge bodge-up...

Incommunicado on Oct 13, 2009 in Random My trip ‘up North’ went reasonably smoothly, all things considered, and am hoping that I’ll be able to say the same after my trip to London on Thursday.  It’s certainly shaping up to be a busy week as we’re picking the new house keys u...

New Month, New Job, New House, on Oct 10, 2009 in Random This week has marked the first working week of my ‘proper job’, which probably explains my lack of blog posts. I’m not that optimistic that I’ll be throwing many more posts up in the immediate future either, as I’ve a spell of business trav...

Strawberry Fields Forever? Think Again! on Sep 30, 2009 in Personal Injury From This is Cornwall 03/06/09: One of the traditional Westcountry summer's simple pleasures is under threat from health and safety rules which have already forced the closure of pick-your-own fields at one of the region's best-known fruit farms.

Coming to a Cinema Near You – Law Student 2 on Sep 28, 2009 in Legal Studies Crazy   Inspired by one of my oddest keyword searches yet, “law student 2”, I quickly found a film idea emerging in my mind. After all, I don’t think there are enough violent action movies featuring law students. :D The plot: A small group of...

Putting the Letch in Lecturing on Sep 25, 2009 in Legal Studies From The Guardian 23/09/09: We've had a week of sex scandals in schools. Now Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of Buckingham University, seems intent on stirring things up on the academic front. Female students, he declares, are a perk of the jo...