All Obiter articles – Page 4

  • X BlueSky
    News

    BlueSky thinking

    2024-11-26T15:00:00Z

    Law firms appear to be determined to stick around for Twitter’s last knocking.

  • James Morton
    News

    Crimes changing with the seasons

    2024-11-19T15:38:00Z

    January and February were for burglary, summer months were reserved for hotel theft, while October was the lorry hijack season. 

  • Suits
    News

    TV lawyers: which show is the least authentic?

    2024-11-17T00:10:00Z

    Obiter's piece on how wills are executed in EastEnders hit a nerve with readers.

  • Kemi Badenoch
    News

    Kemi Badenoch appears at the Post Office Inquiry

    2024-11-16T00:01:00Z

    The Post Office Inquiry has gone on so long that Kemi Badenoch, a junior minister when it started, is now leader of the opposition.

  • Mike Tyson, Nakisa Bidarian, and Jake Paul attend the press conference for LIVE on Netflix: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
    News

    Law firm ringside for Paul v Tyson

    2024-11-15T11:17:00Z

    US firm spends big for the most exclusive seats in the house as Mike Tyson fights YouTuber Jake Paul.

  • Memory lane
    News

    Memory lane

    2024-11-13T15:32:00Z

    Lords urged to throw out HIPs, legal advice for Princess Diana, obscenity and the law and working mothers: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.

  • A businessman takes a video call while on a bus
    News

    Witness thrown under the bus

    2024-11-13T10:50:00Z

    Judge rules it plainly inappropriate for video evidence to be given while on public transport.

  • Nish Panesar (played by Navin Chowdhry), Eastenders
    News

    Soap slips up on will signing

    2024-11-07T11:30:00Z

    Association of Lifetime Lawyers has a run-in with EastEnders.

  • Indigenous Brazilians outside Rolls Building for the opening of Mariana Dam group claim against BHP
    News

    Shadow of a colossus

    2024-11-06T11:59:00Z

    Obiter has been keeping an eye on the omnivorous mega trial in Municipio de Mariana, Rodovia Juscelino Kubitschek and others v BHP Group Ltd and another.

  • Businesswoman carrying files
    News

    Quires invisible

    2024-11-05T11:53:00Z

    A pleasing reduction in paper consumption at the Supreme Court.

  • James Morton
    News

    Judges who took their time

    2024-11-04T12:23:00Z

    For the fourth time this year, a judge has been given formal advice for misconduct over a late judgment. None, however, was in the class of a 19th-century lord chancellor.

  • Password
    News

    Waiting game

    1 November 2024

    Chronology in last week's Axiom Ince report provides intriguing hints about why it all took much longer than expected.

  • I Stephanie Boyce, Law Society president 2021-22, with her official portrait
    News

    Picture of a pioneer

    2024-11-01T10:38:00Z

    Official portrait unveiled of Law Society’s first president of colour.

  • Memory lane
    News

    Memory lane

    2024-10-28T00:01:00Z

    'Climate justice' calls, video link appeals, electronic office technology and an all-graduate profession: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.

  • Rolls Building
    News

    Hot ticket in the Rolls

    2024-10-27T00:01:00Z

    Liability trial begins in mammoth group action involving a tailings dam collapse and Brazilian law. 

  • Lord mayor’s annual judges’ dinner 2024
    News

    At the lord mayor’s show

    2024-10-26T00:01:00Z

    When an invitation landed for the City of London lord mayor’s annual judges’ dinner, Obiter accepted with alacrity.

  • Comedian Sol Bernstein performing at the Joker Comedy Club, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
    News

    'Oldest comedian' headlines fundraiser for solicitor scroll

    2024-10-25T10:59:00Z

    Ticket sales will go towards funds needed for a Torah Scroll in memory of criminal defence stalwart Julian Young.

  • James Morton
    News

    How our DPPs are remembered

    2024-10-24T13:39:00Z

    Every DPP’s tenure is judged by one or two cases which they should have prosecuted but didn’t, or shouldn’t have prosecuted but did.

  • Press release illustration
    News

    Consumer panel comes out of hibernation

    2024-10-23T15:22:00Z

    Survey reveals 'significant difference' - four percentage points - in client satisfaction between England and Wales. 

  • Max Wall as Mr Krapp
    News

    McCloud cuts to Krapp at the last

    2024-10-23T14:16:00Z

    Famous last words are often quoted, but maybe last judgments ought to be a thing too.