Russian litigation doing the dishonesty thing as per, may yet prove more difficult for the lawyers www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

High Court orders City litigators to name source of "forged" report

The High Court has ordered a leading City litigation firm to name the source of a potentially forged report produced as part of an arbitration dispute between Russian oligarchs.

Next Toy Story plotline is going to be wild.

Excellent FT article on the terrible situation in criminal courts. Police not investigating and charging crime gets more attention, but the sad truth is for many crimes, the state of the courts risks making police investigations irrelevant www.ft.com/content/e111...

How the English courts reached breaking point

[FREE TO READ] A record backlog of criminal trials has left lawyers ‘drowning in cases’. Henry Mance goes in search of the answers

Silicon spatulas

The grief the BBC (& we on the Trust for approving it) got for this decision at the time. …

#bbcpm

SMactuarybyday.bsky.socialOct 12, 2024 3:52pm

This is what 180 years of progress looks like! I've reproduced and updated this beautiful chart from @ourworldindata.bsky.social showing life expectancy in England and Wales at different ages, since 1841. The data largely speaks for itself but I'll make a few brief observations. 🧵

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Are they not overthinking authority? Jeez.

And (as far as I can tell, which lets not get into) v high quality too

Worth a shot.