Charon QC
Posts and comments cover the practice of law, individual liberties and legal education with a United Kingdom focus. The author also interviews other lawyers in his podcasts.
Author: Mike Semple Piggot is the editor of UK-based Insite Law Magazine, a newswire resource for lawyers and students.
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Recent Posts from Charon QC
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Diary of a Huntsman… (2): Invisibility
PODCAST VERSION: A Hunstman’s View (2) / Invisibility 20th November 2009 The London trip was not a great success and a fresh assessment is required if I am to stand for parliament. Cybil has a…
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Rive Gauche: Hubris, schadenfreude, dark forces and injustice… what more could you want on a Friday?
Continuing with my Friday ‘Rive Gauche’ theme, I thought I would start this week’s edition with some more political nonsense, tinged with a soupçon of hubris. Political diarist Iain Dale, always worth a read whatever…
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Binyam Mohamed: The Foreign Secretary’s position…?
Reprieve: British government uses ‘Alice in Wonderland’ argument to cover up torture of Binyam Mohamed
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This secret isle……
The secrecy thing is getting out of hand. Recently, we had the Trafigura super injunction fiasco which, thankfully produced such outrage on twitter, in the blogs, The Guardian and other mainstream press, that the lawyers…
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Another nail banged into the coffin of liberties…
The Guardian reports this morning: Judge allows secret services to hide evidence in civil lawsuits • Ruling prompted by UK Guantánamo torture cases • Lawyers decry attack on basic principle of law MI5, MI6 and…
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Diary of a Huntsman….
PODCAST VERSION: A Hunstman’s View (1) / Law & Order 18th November 2009 Cybil not awfully impressed by my latest idea to stand for parliament, but having seen the buffoonery in SW Norfolk t’other night…
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Inappropriate quotations (1)
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Lord Strathclyde to put boot into democratic process? Surely not?!
Lord Strathclyde, leader of the Tories in The Lords lists this in his bio on the Tory Party website: PROUDEST POLITICAL ACHIEVEMENTS: Protecting the integrity of the House of Lords and resisting government attempts to…
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Time for a bonfire of the vanities?….
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Access to Justice and other forms of direct access…..
Catherine Baksi, writing in The Law Society Gazette reports: “The public wants direct access to barristers in crime, family and immigration work and is ‘dissatisfied with paying two lawyers for one job’, a panel of…