October 2010
Muttley Dastardly LLP Episode 6: Report on the state of legal education in England & Wales from Dr Erasmus Stranglelove
Muttley Dastardly LLP Episode 4: Thinking of a Career in Law? Hahaha!
Muttley Dastardly LLP EPISODE 3: Human Rights – Memorandum to The Partners from Dr Strangelove
Law Review: Change is coming with the university fees cap being removed. The College of Law, Kaplan and BPP may have to watch their backs.
Law Review: Panorama looks at abuses by the British Army – Supreme Court fate still ‘under review’
Nadine Dorries MP in Re-Make of *CARRY ON NURSE*? – “Disabled with laughter” (Genghis Khan)
September 2010
Postcard From The Staterooms 12 September 2010
Law Review: Met Gate / Hackgate – whatever you call it – The Coulson story isn’t going to go away…..
Is twitter killing our law? Is blogging killing our law?
Muttley Dastardly LLP: Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Striking the brain of a twitter user with a blog post or a newspaper article or tweet just below the cerebral cortex can stretch the mind of some bloggers/tweeters beyond credulity. This stimulates an immediate desire to post a blog post that triggers an afferent impulse in a sensory nerve fiber of the femoral nerve leading to the lumbar region (L4) of the spinal cord of both the writer of the blog post and sundry readers of the tweets. Then (I’m afraid), the sensory neuron synapses directly with a motor neuron that conducts an efferent impulse to the quadriceps femoris muscle, triggering contraction. This contraction, coordinated with the relaxation of the antagonistic flexor hamstring muscle causes the leg to kick and all sorts of bollocks to be written on blog and on twitter. The good news is….. that this reflex helps maintain posture and balance, allowing one to walk without consciously thinking about each step or, indeed, anything sensible.
A guest post from Charon QC's cousin - Charon MD (After Wikipedia – to whom I apologise)
Law Review: Surge in Britons exported for trial
Law Review: Britain scraps annual assessment of human rights abuses across the world
Postcard from The Staterooms: Blue Nun edition
Muttley Dastardly LLP seek only the brightest of the bright
F**kART: A study in ‘Real Politik’
August 2010
Charon deals with cold callers: 101
Postcard from the Staterooms: Duke of Edinburgh and CMS Camerons edition.
Postcard from The Staterooms
Rive Gauche: Parliamentary Privilege and a trampolining masturbator
Law Review: Piggies – Fast Track deportations – BPP gets University status.
Legal Round UP: DNA Application - The Mogoliers - Lawtel Pending Actions
Postcard From The Staterooms-on-Thames: iPad Edition
Postcard From The Staterooms-on-Thames: iPad Edition
July 2010
Law Review: Baroness Hale on human rights – The inefficiency of the European Court of Human Rights: Justice delayed is justice denied
Muttley Dastardly LLP: I talk to Matt Muttley about career opportunities at his law firm
The impending execution of British citizen, Linda Carty, in Texas.
Muttley Dastardly LLP: Get your ass out there!
Law Review: Not many openly gay judges – Big Brother traffic cameras to be regulated.
Danny Alexander *Telegraphed* - next, please!
RaPId in name, not in nature
By Stephen Higham, solicitor
In March De Facto blogged about the problems caused by the new RTA claims process for personal injury solicitors, insurers and the Ministry of Justice.
The new scheme, now ironically called ‘RaPId’, has spectacularly failed to deliver on its promise of streamlining the way road accident victims are compensated.
The original start date of 6 April 2010 was put back after it became clear that the secure website set up by the government’s agents, IDSL, and the ‘technology partner’ CRIF, would not be ready in time. The (now previous) government agreed to delay the start date by only 24 days, no doubt conscious of the need to introduce it before the election on 6 May. The next available date due to legislative requirements was October 2010, which would have given all concerned enough time to work through the IT problems, but may have resulted in the scheme being shelved completely by the incoming administration (I guess we will find out on June 22nd).
Many solicitors and insurers are still waiting for their usernames and passwords, even though the scheme has been mandatory for 2 weeks. IDSL, who are responsible for issuing the log in details can only be contacted by e-mail, and the separate helpdesk for those fortunate enough to have received these details will not assist with any other queries.
Contrary to the view that the process would speed things up, it has caused additional delays due to computer problems and ridiculous extra requirements, such as the need to send signed copies of uploaded forms in the post when the insurers can access them already on the website portal. Imagine having to send a confirmation letter to amazon.co.uk when you’d just ordered a book from them and you’ll appreciate how out of touch those who designed this scheme are.
Delaying the start date would have been the smart thing to do as the legal rules were only introduced a few weeks before the RaPId scheme was due to begin. They have been prepared in haste and it shows. They are full of loopholes just waiting to be exploited by unscrupulous insurers.
It is likely that the rules will be amended as insurers challenge accident claims victims’ legitimate costs, which will lead to litigation costing more than the value of the claim itself. This ‘satellite litigation’ has been a feature of personal injury claims for some time. Insurers have unlimited resources, and know that if they get a big win at court they can use that to pressure other claimants into taking less than they’re entitled to. This scheme is going to make some costs expert barristers very rich at the expense of some innocent accident victims.
See March - May 2010 entries
See February 2010 entries
See:November 2009 Lawblog entries
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