24th April 2024 I am not an American lawyer, but here are some thoughts from an English litigation perspective. Trump is adept at what he calls (or his ghost writer called) ‘the art of the deal’ – that is a transactional approach based on exploiting leverage. Such an approach is not unhelpful in pre-trial shenanigans, … Continue reading Trump’s case – a view from an English legal perspective

22nd April 2024 One theme of my blogging is the relationship between law and lore. By ‘law and lore’ I mean what people believe to be the law to be, as opposed to what the ‘black letter’ law actually is. Few people, if any, regulate their lives by what the law actually is – for no (normal) … Continue reading Law and lore, and state failure – the quiet collapse of the county court system in England and Wales

17th April 2024 Hugh Grant has acted in many counter-intuitive scenarios. But the situation he described today on Twitter is perhaps the most counter-intuitive predicament of them all: * Grant has been correctly advised by his lawyers – both as to the legal position and that he should settle. Had Grant’s lawyers not given that … Continue reading How the civil justice system forced Hugh Grant to settle – and why an alternative to that system is difficult to conceive