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What the Bar Is Like–Do We Really Know?
It’s difficult getting images of barristers that aren’t parodies of themselves. So I have put up two–one traditional (the one on the right) and one in fancy dress (on the left). OK, the one on the...
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Do We Need a Cab Rank Rule for Barristers?
I’ve been working in India recently on the Globalization, Lawyers and Emerging Economies project (GLEE). So I got used to travelling around in autorickshaws–cheap, cheeful and extremely plentiful....
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Cab Rank Rule Redux….
Since the Legal Services Board published our report on the Cab Rank Rule on 22 January we’ve had many comments coming in on the discussion boards. They are not all negative, though many are. I wanted...
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Criminal Bar Association Likes Taxis…..
Continuing the cab rank rule compendium, the Criminal Bar Association chairman, Michael Turner QC,* posted some comments today on our report. I’m sure there is merit in them somewhere. But the...
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The Cab Rank Rule Finally Explained….
(Thanks to New Yorker) See, it’s all quite simple really…..
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The Clerks’ Views of the Cab Rank Rule
As everyone knows the power behind the throne is the barrister’s clerk (like behind every man is a good woman). Billy, above, from Silk may have been a mite too Machiavellian, but he knew how to...
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This One Will Run and Run….(Cab Rank Rule)
The Chair of the Bar Council, Maura McGowan QC (@MauraMcGowanQC), has written an open letter to the Criminal Bar Association in which she includes a paragraph on our Cab Rank Rule report. It makes...
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Flagging down a cab or Booking a limo? The Australian View
(thanks to paulickreport: note that colours are of Australian horse ‘Black Caviar’) For all the furore about the cab rank rule, including Sir Sydney Kentridge’s passing reference on “Desert Island...
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The Longest Taxi Ride in History!
(London-Sydney by Black Cab, thanks to www.motorhomeplanet.co.uk) I’ve finally written my response to the responses to the Flood-Hviid report on the Cab Rank Rule of the Bar Council by Sir Sydney...
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Response to the Responses…The Cab Arrives at Its Destination…
(thanks to flickr) Here’s my response to the responses by the Bar Council and the Bar Standards Board to our report on the cab rank rule. Working my way through 120 pages of their reaction to our...
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