The Barrister Bard

I read with interest the recent visit by the Queen and Prince Philip to the London HQ of Google, location unknown, and hooted with laughter at the very funny spoof on the Today programme of Her Majesty surfing the Net.

But the more I read of Google’s domination of the Internet, the more […]

I thought the evils of “pooled” recollections by police officers were a thing of the past since the enactment of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, but apparently I was wrong.

For the uninitiated, before the Act, police officers investigating crime would routinely “make up” their pocket book entries together, and their […]

There is a tremendous amount of complete garbage spoken and written about drink driving, and recent research by University College London is no exception. In short, these bone headed researchers, with nothing better to do than spend their grant, have found that by reducing the limit of alcohol to blood from 80 […]

Assisted suicide, once again being ventilated in the courts, is an ethical and legal minefield, and one incapable of easy resolution. Whilst we cling to the questionable belief that in a civilised society human life is sacred, then suicide will remain anathema. To the Catholic Church, it remains a mortal sin, […]