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Do you have a good solicitor? You might think that that is some kind of threat – you’d better have a good solicitor if you think you’re going to win against me! You could think I’m making fun of an opponent – is that the best your solicitor could come up with??? It might be […]

As a kid, one of my father’s favourite past times was keeping me and my brother entertained over dinner with stories and jokes, some of which could take all night, and almost all of which ended with us groaning at the punchline, but laughing none the less. He could take a one line classic and […]

    Which has always struck me as an odd thing to say – obviously if you pay for something, you would expect to get it! It’s a bit like saying you want to “have your cake and eat it”.  Why bother having cake if you can’t eat it!!!  Not that I eat much cake.  […]

  There are lots of things in my life that are obvious. It is obvious that on an average Friday afternoon, I will be found at the bar drinking champagne. It is equally obvious than at the start of the football season, I will be, erm, well, found at St Marys, drinking champagne (there’s a […]

Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, but I have many talents and have had a number of great successes. A few of my favourite success stories have involved proving people wrong – especially when those people have (allegedly) been more knowledgeable and experienced than I am. For example, I once obtained leave to appeal […]

Attention to detail is everything in my world. There are so many things that can go wrong. Missed deadlines. Missing documents. On more than one occasion, a missing witness (or two). But still the most important detail is in the words used (or omitted) and so the importance of checking, and double checking everything is […]

Read the instructions, even if you don’t follow them!   It’s one of my favourite lines, but only applies in my personal life. In my professional life, I will tell you that following the instructions is just as important as reading them! Or, if you’re not going to follow them, at least take legal advice first […]

Being a solicitor can involve wearing more than one hat. If we’re doing family law, then not only are we giving legal advice, but we’re often giving financial guidance as well as a degree of emotional support to the point where you can sometimes feel like a counsellor. In construction disputes, we need to have […]

I’m a great believer that age is a state of mind. Most days I have to remind myself that there is a significant age gap between myself and some of my staff, which means that there are things that I will talk about, such as old practices, old cases and old laws that not only […]

I’m a big fan of giving clients all the options (even the bad ones), setting out the pros and cons, and then leaving them to make up their own minds. It’s my job to give you as many routes as possible, but it’s not my role to tell you what to do. Sometimes clients ask […]