Legal Research

John Banville ? Snow

Posted on July 15, 2020
‘The body is in the library,? Colonel Osborne said. ?Come this way.? I love this as a set-up in this book. It immediately puts you in a Ngaio Marsh, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers frame of mind. A country house murder, with a small cast of potential murderers, and a steady detective to piece it […] The post John Banville – Snow appeared first on Information Overlord.

Laura Shepherd-Robinson ? Daughters of Night

Posted on July 09, 2020
The novel opens with Caroline (Caro) Corsham heading for a clandestine meeting at the pleasure gardens in Vauxhall only to find instead a dead woman, whose last words are ‘he knows’.  Caro knows the woman ,  a Contessa named Lucia having befriended her earlier in the year...

Charlotte McConaghy ? The Last Migration

Posted on July 07, 2020
Set in the near future where more and more animals are becoming extinct, our protagonist Franny Stone, has tagged what might be the last of the Arctic terns, and is determined to follow them on what may be their final migration from Greenland to Antarctica ...

Eley Williams ? The Liars Dictionary

Posted on July 02, 2020
I have soft spot both for books about books and, books where two interlinked stories play out across time, so Eley Williams' debut novel immediately appealed to me. Alternating between the worlds of Peter Winceworth in the late 1800's and Mallory in the present day England the book is about dictionary words...

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One of those days

Posted on June 26, 2019
About once a month I get up, feeling no different to any other day, and start my day, and then slowly realise it is one of those days .   What are those days? Well, for me they are days when I just feel in a ‘fuck it all’ mood.  I feel totally unmotivated; my […] The post One of those days appeared first on Information Overlord.

Mik & Goose

Posted on February 19, 2019
Mikkeller Bar So I start my afternoon at Mikkeler Bar. I decide to start light and opt for 2/3 of Henry and Sally Pale Ale (4.5%). This is a light straw coloured beer with a nice grapefruit tang and solid hop hit. A very good intro beer. Price £5 . You would have thought they could […] The post Mik & Goose appeared first on Information Overlord.

Less is More ? Decluttering ? whatever that is

Posted on January 09, 2019
My Twitter feed the past week has been full of people talking about de-cluttering and in particular references to Marie Kondo, who has just launched a series on Netflix about this very thing (off the back of a successful book). Now, I have not read the book or seen the series ? although my daughter […] The post Less is More ? Decluttering – whatever that is appeared first on Information Overlord.

National Cholesterol Month ? prepare for everything being bad for you

Posted on October 03, 2018
October is National Cholesterol Month. So get ready for a barrage of scariness about high cholesterol and how we should all be taking statins to save our lives etc etc, and that this is no way is just a last way of proving money for producers of statins...

Booker Shortlist

Posted on September 20, 2018
So now we know … Anna Burns’ Milkman (Faber) Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black (Serpent’s Tail) Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under (Jonathan Cape) Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room (Jonathan Cape) Richard Powers’ The Overstory (William Heinemann) Robin Robertson’s The Long Take (Picador) Are the six book’s that make up the shortlist for 2018?s £50,000 Man Booker Prize...

Booker: Sophie Mackintosh ? The Water Cure

Posted on September 19, 2018
“We would all still love each other, but what it meant was: if there was a burning fire, if two sisters were stuck in the inferno and they were screaming a name, the only right thing would be to pick the woe the iron dictated to save. It is important to ignore any contrary instincts […] The post Booker: Sophie Mackintosh ? The Water Cure appeared first on Information Overlord.

High Court quashes Crown Court ruling for failure to consider EU law

Posted on March 22, 2011
Those who read this blog will know I have an interest in the issue of pubs broadcasting Premier League football, and in particular the issue of whether live transmission of Premier League football games in pubs by means of foreign decoder cards (legally purchased) is actually legal in the UK or not...

Record industry still in cloud cuckoo land

Posted on March 11, 2011
“Plaintiffs [the record companies] are suggesting an award that is more money than the entire music recording industry has made since Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877.” Judge Kimba Wood This quote from the latest arguments in the Arista v Limewire case (in this instance the question of how damages would be worked out [...

Fergie cries about the refs again

Posted on March 04, 2011
So, Sir Alex Ferguson is going to appeal against a Football Association charge of improper conduct, relating to him all but saying that the referee Martin Atkinson was biased against Man Utd in Tuesday’s game with Chelsea, which Man Utd lost 2-1...

Lords Committee calls for ad minutage change

Posted on February 17, 2011
The House of Lords Communications Committee have published a report on the regulation of advertising on UK television. As we approach digital switchover in 2012 the committee calls for a harmonising of UK ad rules and the creation of a level the playing field between public service and commercial broadcasters...

EU Court backs inclusion of World Cup and Euro Championship games on UK Free to Air list

Posted on February 17, 2011
The European General Court has ruled that the European Commission was within its rights to allow the UK and Belgium to list major footballing competitions such as the World Cup and the European championship finals as events that must be made available for free-to-air broadcast...

When not statistically significant = damning

Posted on February 15, 2011
The British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010, and independent report published by the Gambling Commission, shows that nearly three quarters of UK adults, 73%, gambled in the previous year, up from 68% in 2007. The measures of problem gambling in the report also show an increase in the number of problem gamblers with increases from 0...

Save us from internet porn

Posted on February 11, 2011
Claire Perry, Conservative Member of Parliament for Devizes, is on a mission (I would suspect in Blues Brothers speak it is also in her mind a mission from God) to save all our children for the big bad world of internet porn. Now first off I will say that she undoubtedly has her heart [...

First Sale and Shrink Wrap/Click Wrap Licencing

Posted on February 03, 2011
According to mLex , the German Supreme Court has referred a case between Oracle and UsedSoft to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) concerning the first sale doctrine and whether when you buy software, do you ‘own’ it and can you then resell it or do provisions such as ‘licences’ prevent you from doing [...

Pubs win first round in Football decoders broadcasting rights fight

Posted on February 03, 2011
Advocate General (AG) Kokott of the European Court of Justice has issued an opinion in the cases C-403/08 and C-429/08 Football Association Premier League Ltd and Others v QC Leisure and Others and Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd. For those not up on EU law an opinion [...

Adult Chat?s continuing broadcasting joke

Posted on January 24, 2011
I have blogged before of how I suspected that Satellite Entertainment Limited (SEL) seem to have the same desire to have their broadcast licences revoked as was displayed by Bang Media, and proof of that is with us once again, in the latest Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin...

EDPS calls for data portability rights

Posted on January 18, 2011
I note that the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), whose job it is to advise the European Commission on DP issues, has responded to their consultation on updating the current data protection/privacy laws. It is a good solid response ? as we have come to expect fromPeter Hustinx...

Panto gets Red Cross, cross.

Posted on January 14, 2011
I was interested to read this week that the Glasgow Pavilion’s production of The Magical Aventures of Robin Hood found itself in hot water for having a nurse wearing an outfit featuring a red cross on it. No, no, no, said The Red Cross, that’s in breach of the Geneva Convention...

Outlaw released, another takes his place.

Posted on January 14, 2011
Readers of the OUT-LAW website will have seen news this week that the editor of said site, Struan Robertson, is leaving an moving on to others things at ‘do no evil’ Google. If you are interested at all in IT law you will know what a fantastic resource this site is (as run by Pinsent [...

T-Mobile data cap fiasco

Posted on January 12, 2011
Charles Arthur in the Guardian had an interesting post on T-Mobile’s decision to impose a 500MB data cap on all smartphone. He picks the odd announcement apart better than I could, including pointing out that it seems to have been written by someone who has no idea how the internet works, or indeed how to [...

The Rough and the Smooth

Posted on January 11, 2011
A couple of things happened over Christmas that involved me having to test the customer relations of two organisations. First off I was bought a 3 month membership to The Album Club (run by Rough Trade Records, a label I have had a lot of time and respect for over the years) , and then [...

Law Podcasts on iTunes

Posted on January 04, 2011
Simon Fodden over at the Slaw Blog has a good post on some of the current law resources available on iTunes U, Apple?s educational podcast section. Simon has identified a selection of what look like worthwhile lectures, in both audio and video format and put them in a Google spreadsheet.

Top 10: TV 2010

Posted on December 24, 2010
The Trip ? It is true that it got a bit repetitive, but the pairing of Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan for this ‘restaurant review’ trip was one that had a number of delights Dexter ? John Lithgow joins the growing list of top draw season long serial killers and this one had a sting in [...

Free law book chapters

Posted on December 23, 2010
Short on things to read this Xmas, then why not read a chapter from the following selction of law books. All PDFs. Whish ? Competion Law Enterprise Act 2002: market studies and market investigations Furmston: Cheshire, Fifoot & Furmston’s Law of Contract 15e Chapter 03: The Phenomena of Agreement Lloyd: Information Technology Law 5e Chapter 01: Privacy, technology, and surveillance Furse: Competition [...

US 9th Circuit rules in WoW game ?bot? case

Posted on December 22, 2010
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down its judgment in the second of three similar cases dealing with the first-sale doctrine and whether or not electronic goods were owned by those that bought them or whether they were just licensed to that person...

Thank you for the music?

Posted on December 22, 2010
…for giving it to me… One of my projects for 2010 was to record some more of my music/songs and as a result there are now 12 songs on my MySpace site. It’s a mixed bag musically (including a couple of instrumentals), but it has, for the most part, been fun playing around and putting them [...

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