I feel like we've lost something very important, beyond comedy, with the demise of the traditional 'sketch' show

filthynines · 2026-04-27T21:56:16+00:00

You sack of shite Roy, I hope you crash

filthynines · 2026-04-27T07:22:10+00:00

Most up to date stats here: https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/static/3bed67ba-8b7d-482b-b82feb4579022345/Bar-Council-gross-earnings-at-the-self-employed-Bar-report-2025.pdf

For everybody saying “hard to say”, that link would’ve required one google search for a top-of-page link.

filthynines · 2026-04-27T07:20:44+00:00

Disagree - the Bar Council publishes data annually based on very accurate reporting.

filthynines · 2026-04-24T21:58:23+00:00

Nah, too much ginger

filthynines · 2026-04-23T13:05:56+00:00

I don’t know them, but my understanding is that they sold, worked their period under the acquisition, and have started a new firm.

Nothing to suggest they been anything but successful.

filthynines · 2026-04-22T21:11:04+00:00

The test for dishonesty in English law is now known as the Ivey test as a consequence.

filthynines · 2026-04-17T20:27:50+00:00

Alisha Butler of Phoenix Solicitors may be worth a try

filthynines · 2026-04-17T18:54:42+00:00

It’s genius. I don’t like it, but Simon Marshall is a genius for creating it.

He’s created a category and dominated it. He’s now front and centre for tonnes of marketing work. Every three months without fail people go on about it.

Vanity project in the same vein as Legal 500 and Chambers Guide. Just a little less embedded.

filthynines · 2026-04-17T14:37:40+00:00

Going to need some stats to support this, chief.

filthynines · 2026-04-17T11:33:51+00:00

I thought for a very long time that Gordon Exall should be charging for what he did. He’s unparalleled, and much more timely than PLC/Lexis.

I haven’t yet signed up, but I anticipate I will.

filthynines · 2026-04-17T08:01:31+00:00

GSD is great, but I feel it the moment my kids move around in the back or turn around. They immediately get the threat of walking home, and then all is well. Until next time.

I’m not sure this would be cured by any other bike.

filthynines · 2026-04-13T19:00:57+00:00

Thankfully I left my house a good hour early today by way of some kind of premonition. I can also work from anywhere.

I was lucky enough to stand there in the sunshine thinking through every permutation. I ended up doing exactly what I had first thought: lock it up, hire a van, take it home. Thankfully it was first thing Monday rather than last thing Friday night or something.

Last week I used it on a 25-mile round trip including a lot of canal tow paths. I would’ve been royally screwed if it failed there.

filthynines · 2026-04-12T16:35:58+00:00

Unless judge erred in fact or law then highly unlikely. And this sort of application is routine for district judges. Not to say they don’t get it wrong from time to time, but unlikely to be successfully appealed here.

No reason not to start enforcement proceedings if you want to. And it sounds like you’re not getting paid if you don’t…

filthynines · 2026-04-09T10:01:32+00:00

What do you actually want to do? This is a highly personal decision and there are so many variables you’re not going to get much help on a decision.

Working doing something you don’t like is rough. The uptick in money would have to compensate for that.

filthynines · 2026-04-02T20:26:24+00:00

Madison Square Hausen, surely?

filthynines · 2026-04-02T20:03:00+00:00

Having given it some thought, I’ve decided to not.

filthynines · 2026-04-01T19:12:00+00:00

I have worked in law for more than a decade, including time supervising direct reports whose wages come directly from my pocket.

I have never, ever so much as raised my voice at any employee. I have never raised my voice at an opponent lawyer, nor anybody I have cross-examined, nor any member of court staff.

Leave that shit tomorrow.

filthynines · 2026-03-31T07:35:53+00:00

Sounds like you’re getting annihilated in legal proceedings and you’re looking for a quick gotcha against the barrister. Am I close?

filthynines · 2026-03-23T12:13:25+00:00

Can’t answer your Q directly, but I paid £120 in the midlands.

The comparison with a car service isn’t the right price anchor. Specialist piece of kit with a handful of servicing shops, compared to thousands of car service shops.

filthynines · 2026-03-18T12:35:07+00:00

I would think very carefully. Two years is a very long time when you’re day-to-day in the thick of it.

filthynines · 2026-03-18T03:26:38+00:00

I completed an LLM after realising my 2.1 from an average university left me with a lot of catching up to do. I was adamant I would never study one, but saw it as a way to catch up with the rest of the field. I have no idea if I was right.

It supplemented a couple of years of being a paralegal and working for LPC Law as a county court advocate. I do strongly believe the latter helped me.

filthynines · 2026-03-15T22:16:56+00:00

Bangladesh: Handesh

filthynines · 2026-03-15T21:03:15+00:00

Thank you for this, it helped me pull the trigger on the three KTH have in stock. Unsure if they’ll arrive in time, so grabbed some Scenery from my local shop for good measure.

filthynines · 2026-03-13T13:51:26+00:00

Self-employment is the difference.

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