The Barrister Bard
"Witty and incisive comment on the law today, including crime and punishment, love and marriage, prison reform, personal injury, police and the courts."
Author: David Osborne is a barrister who lives in Somerset, England, and is the author of Toby Potts in the Temple of Gloom and Other Adventures of Our Intrepid Hero, a humorous book on the law, and a two e-books: The Road to Success and Public Speaking—the Ultimate Guide to the Art of Public Speaking.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • International • Europe • Consultant • Humor
Recent Posts from The Barrister Bard
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GOOD GUY
Call me curmudgeonly if you will, but I’ve never got my head around Bonfire Night. I know the history, as do most of you. Guy Fawkes and a group of other catholic malcontents allegedly plotted…
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PRISON REFORM
Jack Straw’s latest perorations on crime and punishment fall well short of a reasoned argument, based as they are on the emotive knee jerk journalism of the tabloids. I refer to his bald statement…
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LOG OFF
I read with interest the recent visit by the Queen and Prince Philip to the London HQ of Google, location unknown, and hooted with laughter at the very funny spoof on the Today programme of…
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THE THICK BLUE LINE
I thought the evils of “pooled” recollections by police officers were a thing of the past since the enactment of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, but apparently I was wrong. For the…
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ONE FOR THE ROAD
There is a tremendous amount of complete garbage spoken and written about drink driving, and recent research by University College London is no exception. In short, these bone headed researchers, with nothing better to do…