For many solicitors, the direction of travel is the same. Far more time is devoted to box-ticking compliance, and serving as an amateur tax collector, than in the past. (View Post)

A very fine header. Yes, indeed, the powerful do pick and choose which laws they wish to obey. (View Post)

Essentially the point made by Bulla Felix, the brigand, to Ulpian the jurist. “Why are you a brigand?” “Why are you a magistrate?” (View Post)

@Taz “I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in co… (View Post)

Sure, and that’s the whole point of “I’d give the devil the benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.” Once you decide that you’ll ignore the law, to please your supporters, your opponents will use t… (View Post)