26th August: Editorial update

Charon QC awards first “Charon puts it down the bog award” In the weekly Postcard – this week from LA LA Land Charon reviews the extraordinary case of Riam dean’s win over Abercrombie & Fitch… Charon also relates his experience – almost at Brian Rix farce levels – on Friday afternoon and evening.

Charon QC:The Lockerbie bomber is to be released on compassionate grounds, the Scottish Government has announced. The BBC reports: Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, 57, was jailed in 2001 for the atrocity which claimed 270 lives in 1988.Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill revealed that the Libyan, who has terminal prostate cancer, would be allowed to return to his homeland. Let me explain what my opinion is on this:

Cardiff Law School on the ‘naughty step’ …. Nearly Legal writes: “Our non-lawyer/law student readers, or even non-barrister readers, might have to forgive us for this for this Naughty Step, but it was too good to resist, particularly for those of us – i.e.  me – still newly qualified enough to harbour memories of their professional courses (LPC/BVC), and also familiar, from the other side, with the conduct of University exam committees.

And so, we welcome to the Step Cardiff Law School, who are here for their truly remarkably inappropriate behaviour in the face of a High Court order, as well as managing to ensure that they lost a judicial review of the conduct of their exam committees.

Clarke, R (on the application of) v Cardiff University [2009] EWHC 2148 (Admin) was a judicial review of Cardiff University Law School brought by a BVC student from 2004/5, Ms Clarke. The story went something like this…”

Read the rest of the post – not a great story for Cardiff Law School

In fact… it is disgraceful…. do read it. It is cringe making…. OUCH!

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