Mikel2 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 On 12/21/2020 at 5:25 PM, Harold Jones said: I know it's the Daily Mail but it made me laugh outloud. Courts service apologises to second black barrister in three months after mistaking them for a defendant https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9075039/Courts-service-apologises-second-black-barrister-mistaking-defendant.html I wonder how many times that has happened to white lawyers. And if so, how many have received official apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rmgill Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 On 1/23/2021 at 9:54 AM, Mikel2 said: I wonder how many times that has happened to white lawyers. And if so, how many have received official apologies. Could be the barrister was dressed poorly. The last time I was in court I was dressed nicely and as the defendant in a stupid code enforcement case (that I won) the county solicitor thought I was the defense attorney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R011 Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, rmgill said: Could be the barrister was dressed poorly. The last time I was in court I was dressed nicely and as the defendant in a stupid code enforcement case (that I won) the county solicitor thought I was the defense attorney. From what I've seen in court, defence lawyers tend to dress poorly. Look for a guy in a cheap, ill fitting blue suit with brown shoes or the blazer and slacks that were fashionable back in the eighties - if ever. Edited January 25, 2021 by R011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Well, my attorney was much more sharply dressed than I. I was on par with the county attorney. Though I do have a friend who's another attorney in the same circuit of courts in the metro area who's observed some attorney wearing some sort of spiky plastic croc like shoes. He predicts friction with judges over those shoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Peter Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 "If the turret on the Defiant was wider, he would have fought in the Battle of Britain." / "Just imagine if Maggie had landed with the troops at San Carlos and ended up at Goose Green" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 Those poor staff.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 (edited) .................. Edited January 28, 2021 by bojan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Here's a two year old story about a double murder in the UK. I find it interesting because it's difficult to see how, with the current state of gun ownership and use laws in the UK, one would protect against this occurring - the solution adopted is a partial mitigation only. I think anything more would really require that the range had armed security, and that's almost certainly not legal. https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/crime/director-st-leonards-shooting-range-where-murder-rifle-was-stolen-speaks-out-232619 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Peter Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 I wouldnt say no to a Sea Harrier. It would make a nice garden feature. Nicola Sturgeon seems to be in a spot of hot water. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/crunch-time-for-snp-as-sturgeon-and-salmond-s-rift-comes-under-scrutiny/ar-BB1dsvCU?ocid=BingNews As Alex Salmond exchanged a modest elbow bump with his QC, Gordon Jackson, following his acquittal on 13 charges of sexual assault at Edinburgh’s high court, the backdrop was a desolate Royal Mile, emptied of its usual tourist bustle by the encroaching pandemic last March. The verdict in the nine-day trial of Scotland’s former first minister, who led the country to the brink of independence, ought to have dominated headlines for days: instead it was relegated within hours as a nationwide lockdown was announced. A year later, with two inquiries into the Scottish government’s handling of the initial claims of sexual harassment that led to Salmond’s trial reaching their conclusion, that sense of multiple realities remains. Here is a Holyrood committee charged with scrutinising the Scottish government’s botched handling of the complaints, continually frustrated by that government’s delayed and incomplete evidence. Here is the SNP, after a decade in power, on course to win a landslide majority in May’s election. Here is a first minister, under investigation by Ireland’s former director of public prosecutions, James Hamilton, over whether she lied to parliament about when she first knew about the allegations and breached the ministerial code by failing to report meetings with Salmond, which would require her resignation. Here is Nicola Sturgeon, whose already impressive trust ratings have soared over the past 12 months thanks to her perceived competence and humanity in handling the coronavirus pandemic: research last week by YouGov for the Times found she has a net approval rating of +21 in Scotland, compared with Salmond at -60 rating, worse even than Boris Johnson’s -54. “Of course the general public have been prioritising Covid,” says Jackie Baillie, Labour MSP and a Holyrood committee member, “and this work is difficult to explain and full of intricacies, but the institutions of government need to be held to account.” The next two weeks will see the principal actors give their evidence under oath as the committee hurries on to complete its report before the election recess begins on 25 March. Hamilton is also expected to publish his findings by then. But in the latest twist, Salmond has signalled he may not attend his long-awaited appearance this Tuesday, following a row over the committee’s refusal to publish his key submission, in which he claims Sturgeon lied to parliament and broke the ministerial code, because of legal constraints. Salmond branded the decision “farcical” and is reportedly considering holding a press conference instead. Salmond has claimed that officials close to Sturgeon and her husband, Peter Murrell, chief executive of the SNP, were involved in a conspiracy to bolster the government and police investigation, and had pushed complainants into giving evidence. In a submission to the committee last week, he branded the behaviour of the current Scottish government a disgrace, and accused the country’s most senior civil servant, Leslie Evans, of having a bias against him. The following week, it should be the turn of Sturgeon, who has had three scheduled appearances postponed. She has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and suggested the former SNP leader is angry with her because she “didn’t collude with him to make these allegations go away”. And on Monday, the day before Salmond, Murrell is to give further evidence after MSPs agreed to use compulsion powers if he refused. He is expected to be questioned about text and WhatsApp messages about the investigations, which he has previously said under oath do not exist. Me? Im just opening the popcorn, this is likely to be first class entertainment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucklucky Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 This is some excellent news of It's true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 (edited) British police best police, gives you manual how to make firearms Edited February 16, 2021 by bojan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Tan Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Royal Nonesuch wants to be credited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Metro needs spell check; "wordwide." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobbly Head Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 5 hours ago, bojan said: British police best police, gives you manual how to make firearms Technically all firearms are controlled pipe bombs, but given the youth of today who wants to place money on somebody trying to make this out of a PVC pipe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Forgotten weapons had a recent episode with a slam fire shotgun that was exactly this with a stock and a "safety". the information is trivial to find online, but if you're a "person of interest", you'll find that the internet isn't that secret a place if you're careless about your VPN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 18 minutes ago, Wobbly Head said: ...but given the youth of today who wants to place money on somebody trying to make this out of a PVC pipe? Stupid have awards of their own. OTOH even PVC pipes can be used through the use of such rare and hard to get things like wire and 5 minute epoxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Why go searching when the british police have a handy diagram... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Peter Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 (edited) On 2/17/2021 at 5:44 AM, rmgill said: Why go searching when the british police have a handy diagram... Did they put a flaw into it, like the legends say about the nuke? Edited February 26, 2021 by Adam Peter wording Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheeOne Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 The compromise between putting this here or in the "Because Germany" thread would be to stick it in an "Because Italy", but I think we don't have one. Quote Date 26.02.2021 German court jails would-be UK hospital bomber A 33-year-old Italian national has been sentenced to three years in prison on extortion charges for threatening to bomb British hospitals unless he was paid more than €11 million. A court in Berlin sentenced a man who tried to blackmail Britain's National Health Service (NHS) to three years in jail on Friday. Judges said Emil A. demanded 10 million pounds (€11.5 million, $13.9 million) in Bitcoin or else he would blow up hospitals. The court found the Italian, who lives in Berlin, guilty of attempted extortion. Threats to hospitals, MPs and BLM protesters In a string of emails to the NHS and Britain's National Crime Agency, the 33-year-old said he would attack lawmakers and anti-racism protesters taking part in Black Lives Matter rallies. Officers arrested him in an overnight raid on June 15 by police SWAT teams and federal agents. Investigators said he used anti-Semitic language and purported to be a member of Combat 18, a violent far-right group which was banned in Germany last year. His threats came at a time when the UK's hospitals were grappling with the first wave of coronavirus infections in April last year. [...] https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-jails-would-be-uk-hospital-bomber/a-56719409 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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