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Mike Semple Piggot
Mike Semple Piggot blogs as Charon QC and is a regular podcasts on a range of legal issuesThe fourth estate versus Cherie Blair
19/05/2008
"Bye, I won't miss you, said Cherie Blair as she left Downing Street - or, to be more accurate, as Tony Blair left Downing Street for the last time as Prime Minister.Since the publication of her memoirs Speaking For Myself,...In conversation: Rawlinson on recruitment, Savage on LPC fees
7/03/2008
Today I spoke to Mark Rawlinson, a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London. Mark has been a partner for 17 years and specialises in M&A, particularly competitive or contested situations.Mark recently wrote an entry on Legal Village called “Putting...Bar chairman Dutton settles into the hot-seat
4/03/2008
Today I spoke to Timothy Dutton QC, the chairman of the Bar. Timothy was born in 1957 and was called to the Bar in 1979, taking silk in 1998. He practises in general commercial, public, regulatory and administrative law, professional negligence...Time up for illegal downloaders?
21/02/2008
I recently interviewed Ed Vaizey MP, Conservative member of Parliament for Wantage and Didcot, for Consilio about proposals to regulate the internet to prevent illegal downloading of media, including music, television and published works. Ed is currently the shadow culture...The SRA gets a Savaging
6/02/2008
I interviewed Nigel Savage, chief executive of the College of Law, for Consilio to ask him why the College is instructing Matrix Chambers’ Rabinder Singh QC in response to changes made by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to the Qualified...LawSoc keeps spotlight on the rule of law
29/01/2008
Yesterday evening I did a podcast interview for my online magazine Consilio and the Charon blawg over the internet with Andrew Holroyd, president of the Law Society (and fellow Legal Village blogger). Nothing remarkable in terms of the technology but what Andrew...Why one silk will not be signing the Legal Service Commission contract
22/01/2008
As part of my Weekend Review podcast, done through my 'Charon QC' blog for Consilio, I interviewed Simon Myerson QC.His views are robust. I have extracted his interview from the Weekend Review to allow you to listen to his views, should...Help is only a phone call away with the JLD….
21/01/2008
Today I read a story in the Water Cooler section of The Times about the new helpline set up by the Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society – the successor to the old TSG and YSG – to help...Dodgy donations, wigs and bloggery
17/01/2008
The new year got off to a cracking start with political blogs falling over themselves to release analysis and snippets of news on donations to political parties. Stories about Lib-Dem and Tory alleged non-compliance seem to have dropped out of...Dodgy donations, flummery and judicial independence
6/12/2007
It is difficult to know where to start. In recent weeks we have had 25 million records lost by HM Revenue & Customs, the Northern Rock crisis, 'Donorgate', another escaping foot and mouth virus from Purbright, Judge Cottle deciding that...Pupillage - and how to get it
9/11/2007
In my guise as blawger “Charon QC” I interviewed Simon Myerson QC of Park Court Chambers and author of the 'Pupillage and how to get it' blog earlier this week about the harsh realities of applying for pupillage. It was a...Diversity, plagiarism and bad teaching in law schools
7/11/2007
This week I am looking at a number of issues in relation to legal education, sketching out themes for more detailed analysis in later posts. I start with bad teaching in law schools.On the principle that I am reasonably likely to...Education for the curious, please
25/10/2007
Thinking about legal education I’m often reminded of Albert Einstein’s comment that it is a miracle that “curiosity survives formal education”.One of the concerns I have had over the last 25 years of teaching law is the danger that students...
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