It is just over a year since my last post on this topic, which was mainly about Jacqui Smith‘s proposal for a new strict liability offence. Strict liability offences are generally bad law. They are offences where in technical terms there is no mens rea requirement. Normally, guilt requires that (1) the person did the [...]
I am currently experimenting with the new I. Part of its attraction is the price. The other, and perhaps more important, is the saving in time. Even so, it sometimes takes me awhile to get around to it so today I finally got around to the 1 November issue shown above. One of the columnists [...]
34 year old Andy House of Lufkin (about 100 miles N of Houston) owns a company that restores damaged luxury cars for resale. Last month he had paid £0.75M for a Bugatti Veyron from a dealer in Arkansas and was driving it alongside a saltwater lagoon near the coast. He seems to have been on [...]
One should not laugh too much, perhaps. We all have our weaknesses, but even so …
In his most recent article, John Scholes complains that, “There must be hundreds of quotation sites. Almost none of them give any kind of reference. How on earth do they know that the quotations are accurate? What on earth is the point in compiling a site of quotations without the sources?” That is a very [...]
