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Transblawg | 1. November 2009 — Fine Cell Work sells needlework by prisoners. …

e-comm | 17. Oktober 2009 — ... auch bei TJ McIntyre) und Scott Vine). Interessant sind aus meiner Sicht vor allem zwei Punkte: Zu network neutrality: "From the evidence we have received we are persuaded that in the UK, at present, 'network neutrality' is being delivered by market mechanisms. However, we also believe that th…

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Transblawg | 2. Oktober 2009 — ... be filed both on paper and electronically. Information for public online: What about the public and the lawyers? Any web user can find out the status of cases before the court. Details are fed from the case management system to the website (www.supremecourt.gov.uk), so people can view summ…

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Transblawg | 1. Oktober 2009 —The Oxford English Dictionary has a word-of-the-day service. Today's word is refresher, and one meaning is the one that sprang to mind immediately: Dietl-Lorenz: refresher Sonderhonorar für den Anwalt (Br barrister) (bei längerer Verhandlungsdauer) Romain refresher außerordentliche Anwaltsgebühr (be…

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Transblawg | 22. September 2009 — ... of the Privy Council, but that is not for the UK; and the European Court of Justice (EU) and ... was to be replaced by the Supreme Court of the UK. Apparently Tony Blair was thinking of creating a Ministry ... 2005 has been passed and the Supreme Court of the UK will start work on 1 October. …

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Transblawg | 21. September 2009 —There have recently been two half-hour programmes on BBC Radio 4 on which members of Outer Temple Chambers speak about their working lives. The programmes can still be listened to online, even outside the UK.…

Transblawg | 16. September 2009 —Heinz face anger over 58th variety, writes William Green in the Austrian Times. Surely this is naive? I remember over twenty years ago being annoyed when I discovered that Cadbury's chocolate sold in Germany had more sugar than the British kind. Another taster Kathryn Quinn, 25, from Cumbria that …

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Transblawg | 3. September 2009 —Die Zeit recommends corned beef for Labskaus, although it says salt beef is traditional, minced. Fortunately the corned beef comes from a tin (in Germany you can buy an inferior kind of corned beef, pronounced cornid beef, from delicatessen counters). (Wikipedia picture of 'Hamburg-style Labskaus wi…

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e-comm | 30. August 2009 —Dass James Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Europe and Asia der News Corporation (und natürlich Sohn von Rupert Murdoch), weder für die BBC noch für die britische Regulierungsbehörde Ofcom besondere Sympathien hat, ist nicht wirklich überraschend. Schließlich ist die BBC ein wesentlicher Konkur…

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Transblawg | 21. August 2009 —Here are some notes on the structure and style of English (and German) judgments. German judgments tend to be authoritative and impersonal. They also fail to name the parties, and sometimes even the judges. You don’t get much information on the history of the case or even the facts. Quoting Intellec…

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Transblawg | 18. Juli 2009 —I read this post on Simon Myerson's blog when it first appeared on July 13. Pupil barristers need to spend some time at a set of chambers. Under the heading Here Are the Results of the BVC Jury, Myerson collects comments of prospective pupils who were treated rudely at interview, and he has a Wall o…

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Transblawg | 14. Juli 2009 —From London Shop Fronts: QED. …

criminologia | 4. Juli 2009 — Mit der Kampagne “Nice people take drugs” will die gemeinnützige Organisation für Drogen und Menschenrechte Release den Umgang mit Drogen von Stigmatisierung befreien und eine offene Debatte über sichere und effektivere Drogenpolitik eröffnen. Der leitende Geschäftsführer der Organisation s…

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Transblawg | 1. Juli 2009 —spEak You’re bRanes finds a rich field in stupid online comments, in this case on the British National Party in the recent EU elections. Here's the BBC page they quote from. Here is some BNP and UKIP bumf I collected on my recent visit: …

e-comm | 21. Juni 2009 — Während die österreichische Internetoffensive weiterhin in geheimer Mission unterwegs ist, macht die in ähnlicher Weise mit einem USB-Stick als Symbol operierende britische "Digital Britain"-Initiative ziemlichen Wind. Der vergangene Woche vorgestellte Endbericht brachte durchaus einige kontrovers…

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