Anyone who thinks that Civil Court cases can be sold as entertainment was not in Court 8 of the Court of Session today...moving on the Faculty of Advocates is planning to livestream this event onto a large screen and possibly even provide some snacks so a chance to bet on the outcome would just add to the fun. Of course punters need to be aware that this case will almost certainly be taken to avizandum so the written decision will not come out until later.
We seem to be seeing a very rapid move from English courts in which photography is a crime to courts which are streamed and provide live entertainment ... just like US court cases but even more so as we have fewer restrictions on online betting.
Criminal cases would usually make better TV though. Most civil cases are just about money.
Just noticed this. Now why has George grassed up Philip?
Guido Quote of the Day Rachel Sylvester quotes a Tory MP on the relationship between Philip Hammond and Theresa May: “they really didn’t get on, he was forever telling George [Osborne] he couldn’t stand her”
Soon no one would have to do it, the way Ma'am is going. Apparently, the Great Repeal Bill is heading for the cliffs.
Once again there is a serious lack of tactical co-ordination here. Anyone with half a brain would have realised that the Great Reform Bill (with added repeal of 1972 Act!!) really should be published before this case is heard so the point can be made that Parliament will have plenty of opportunity to debate and decide on these points and address all questions of rights that might arise from the various Acts repealed and amended.
I remain to be persuaded that the government is really trying here which makes the decision remaining undisturbed look quite tempting.
Anyone who thinks that Civil Court cases can be sold as entertainment was not in Court 8 of the Court of Session today...moving on the Faculty of Advocates is planning to livestream this event onto a large screen and possibly even provide some snacks so a chance to bet on the outcome would just add to the fun. Of course punters need to be aware that this case will almost certainly be taken to avizandum so the written decision will not come out until later.
"avizandum"
I thought you'd made up that word, but it does exist. And you used it in context.
Anyone who thinks that Civil Court cases can be sold as entertainment was not in Court 8 of the Court of Session today...moving on the Faculty of Advocates is planning to livestream this event onto a large screen and possibly even provide some snacks so a chance to bet on the outcome would just add to the fun. Of course punters need to be aware that this case will almost certainly be taken to avizandum so the written decision will not come out until later.
"avizandum"
I thought you'd made up that word, but it does exist. And you used it in context.
It is the sort of word that lawyers use to justify their extravagant fees. I am sure engineers have similar ones
Just noticed this. Now why has George grassed up Philip?
Guido Quote of the Day Rachel Sylvester quotes a Tory MP on the relationship between Philip Hammond and Theresa May: “they really didn’t get on, he was forever telling George [Osborne] he couldn’t stand her”
But obama loved her when she visited him at the white house.
Anyone who thinks that Civil Court cases can be sold as entertainment was not in Court 8 of the Court of Session today...moving on the Faculty of Advocates is planning to livestream this event onto a large screen and possibly even provide some snacks so a chance to bet on the outcome would just add to the fun. Of course punters need to be aware that this case will almost certainly be taken to avizandum so the written decision will not come out until later.
"avizandum"
I thought you'd made up that word, but it does exist. And you used it in context.
It is the sort of word that lawyers use to justify their extravagant fees. I am sure engineers have similar ones
@Pulpstar If Donald Trump is going to recruit exclusively from the ranks of those who he has not been disobliging to or who have not been disobliging to him, the talent pool is going to be thin indeed.
@Pulpstar If Donald Trump is going to recruit exclusively from the ranks of those who he has not been disobliging to or who have not been disobliging to him, the talent pool is going to be thin indeed.
But those who have been most loyal are getting the greatest rewards
Hugely unimportant decisions? I am not sure I would trust Carson with even that.
Not so unimportant. I thought it was HUD decisions that led to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac policies, that led to the sub-prime lending crisis that led the world to the brink of financial collapse. Fortunately, Gordon Brown was there to save the world.
@Pulpstar If Donald Trump is going to recruit exclusively from the ranks of those who he has not been disobliging to or who have not been disobliging to him, the talent pool is going to be thin indeed.
Anyone who thinks that Civil Court cases can be sold as entertainment was not in Court 8 of the Court of Session today...moving on the Faculty of Advocates is planning to livestream this event onto a large screen and possibly even provide some snacks so a chance to bet on the outcome would just add to the fun. Of course punters need to be aware that this case will almost certainly be taken to avizandum so the written decision will not come out until later.
"avizandum"
I thought you'd made up that word, but it does exist. And you used it in context.
It is the sort of word that lawyers use to justify their extravagant fees. I am sure engineers have similar ones
Think Bleak House...
I should but I get really bored with cases that run on and on and do my best to finish them.
Department of Housing and Urban Development, but Hugely unimportant decisions more apt.
oh so he's giving him the inner cities.....
Yes, well not just the inner cities. HUD’s mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all, so the blurb goes, wherever they are.
Hugely unimportant decisions? I am not sure I would trust Carson with even that.
Not so unimportant. I thought it was HUD decisions that led to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac policies, that led to the sub-prime lending crisis that led the world to the brink of financial collapse. Fortunately, Gordon Brown was there to save the world.
Yeah but apart from the worst financial disaster in history that almost destroyed our economy what else has HUD done?
You know thinking back to those republican primaries we could have done so much worse than Trump. Carson, Cruz, that madwoman who wreaked the photocopier business, there were some real nutters out there.
I think that relevant to the previous thread are the words barbarocracy, foolocracy and kakistocracy, none of which is recognised by my spell checker. Of the three I favour the third as best to describe the new dawn of US politics.
Whilst I don't have much time for this Farage for US Ambassador nonsense, I am puzzled by the argument that you have to be a Tory to get one of these jobs. Our current man in DC is a former adviser to Blair, but I suppose that makes him a David Cameron Tory.
Whilst I don't have much time for this Farage for US Ambassador nonsense, I am puzzled by the argument that you have to be a Tory to get one of these jobs. Our current man in DC is a former adviser to Blair, but I suppose that makes him a David Cameron Tory.
It's a silly argument, we're not like America where party donors and henchpeople are rewarded with Ambassadorships.
Going to be a lot more angry people in America now!
Only the ones who haven't thought it through (okay, just like on here that will be most of them)
Nobody is going to survive a Senate nomination hearing as AG, FBI Director etc if they go in with sharpened torches and burning pitchforks.
Dampen this down and make conciliatory noises about letting the doddery old crone go quietly senile on her own in her bathchair. Then in six months time the inquiry into the Clinton Foundation will spontaneously warm up and Trump will say it's the FBI acting independently.
Removes any temptation that Obama might have to pardon her while he's still in office, as well. But we'll see.
I fully expect to see Hillary investigated by every single federal agency. Including the Parks Service.
Given that the following agencies (among others) have SWAT teams -
Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission
Whilst I don't have much time for this Farage for US Ambassador nonsense, I am puzzled by the argument that you have to be a Tory to get one of these jobs. Our current man in DC is a former adviser to Blair, but I suppose that makes him a David Cameron Tory.
It's a silly argument, we're not like America where party donors and henchpeople are rewarded with Ambassadorships.
Isolated case but one I don't believe has been cited and that was the appointment of Peter Jay (then Callaghan's son in law) as Ambassador to the US in the late seventies.
Whilst I don't have much time for this Farage for US Ambassador nonsense, I am puzzled by the argument that you have to be a Tory to get one of these jobs. Our current man in DC is a former adviser to Blair, but I suppose that makes him a David Cameron Tory.
To put it another way, when was the last time that a UK Ambassador wasn't a Diplomatic Service pro? Peter Jay?
Whilst I don't have much time for this Farage for US Ambassador nonsense, I am puzzled by the argument that you have to be a Tory to get one of these jobs. Our current man in DC is a former adviser to Blair, but I suppose that makes him a David Cameron Tory.
It's a silly argument, we're not like America where party donors and henchpeople are rewarded with Ambassadorships.
Isolated case but one I don't believe has been cited and that was the appointment of Peter Jay (then Callaghan's son in law) as Ambassador to the US in the late seventies.
Going to be a lot more angry people in America now!
Only the ones who haven't thought it through (okay, just like on here that will be most of them)
Nobody is going to survive a Senate nomination hearing as AG, FBI Director etc if they go in with sharpened torches and burning pitchforks.
Dampen this down and make conciliatory noises about letting the doddery old crone go quietly senile on her own in her bathchair. Then in six months time the inquiry into the Clinton Foundation will spontaneously warm up and Trump will say it's the FBI acting independently.
Removes any temptation that Obama might have to pardon her while he's still in office, as well. But we'll see.
I fully expect to see Hillary investigated by every single federal agency. Including the Parks Service.
Given that the following agencies (among others) have SWAT teams -
Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission
This could be fun....
The railroad retirement board SWAT team...it just creates such an image.
Mr. Toms, I knew of the barbaros/xenos divide due to recently re-reading Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War. I knew of kakistos via Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Whilst I don't have much time for this Farage for US Ambassador nonsense, I am puzzled by the argument that you have to be a Tory to get one of these jobs. Our current man in DC is a former adviser to Blair, but I suppose that makes him a David Cameron Tory.
It's a silly argument, we're not like America where party donors and henchpeople are rewarded with Ambassadorships.
Isolated case but one I don't believe has been cited and that was the appointment of Peter Jay (then Callaghan's son in law) as Ambassador to the US in the late seventies.
Mr. Toms, I knew of the barbaros/xenos divide due to recently re-reading Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War. I knew of kakistos via Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
For some reason that comment made me think of the splendid movie "Abraham Lincoln: vampire hunter" That film was a topic of comments here some time ago. As I remember, it treated American blacks with great respect and had a humdinger of a train crash.
Mr. Toms, I knew of the barbaros/xenos divide due to recently re-reading Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War. I knew of kakistos via Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Mr. Toms, I knew of the barbaros/xenos divide due to recently re-reading Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War. I knew of kakistos via Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
For some reason that comment made me think of the splendid movie "Abraham Lincoln: vampire hunter" That film was a topic of comments here some time ago. As I remember, it treated American blacks with great respect and had a humdinger of a train crash.
The theory that the American Civil War was really a war on Vampires had the attraction of considerable novelty.
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Criminal cases would usually make better TV though. Most civil cases are just about money.
I thought you'd made up that word, but it does exist. And you used it in context.
What is HUD ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQPmEq30WtE
Think Bleak House...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5K7UmYkD1I
'Kin hell, then really will happen
I'd say the Scandinavians have the best balance of 'best' vs 'better than most'. Glad to see the UK in that sort of company.
We should just be grateful.
barbarocracy, foolocracy and kakistocracy, none of which is recognised by my spell checker.
Of the three I favour the third as best to describe the new dawn of US politics.
Given that the following agencies (among others) have SWAT teams -
Department of Agriculture,
the Railroad Retirement Board,
the Tennessee Valley Authority,
the Office of Personnel Management,
the Consumer Product Safety Commission
This could be fun....
https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/801118212154945536
Kind of confirms my suspicion that his views were not sought before Trump had his wind up though.
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