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I love to talk. I can often be found on my feet (with a drink in my hand) talking about football (or possibly not, at the moment!), Guinness, law, politics, travel, alcohol, food, sport, champagne and why my glass is empty. In fact, getting me to talk is easy.  Getting me to sit down and […]

And no, I don’t mean when I’m sitting at the bar with a bottle of bubbles and I’m not willing to share! Although that is definitely I time when I might not be pleased to see you! Unless, of course, you bought your own bottle. What I was actually thinking about, was a risk of […]

You’re probably thinking it’s me, seeing as how the sun is shining and the tv is full of adverts for BBQ and picnic food. But I wasn’t talking about the weather. I was actually talking about Intellectual Property. If you’re a football fan, you will no doubt know who Cole Palmer is. If you’re not […]

No, this isn’t about family law – in fact, if it was, this statement would be wrong. In family financial proceedings, what’s yours is ours, and what’s mine is ours – and either side’s ability to argue that an asset falls outside of the family pot can be quite difficult.  Which is a good reason […]

I’ve always known that having a will is a good idea, although not really essential until you have kids and/or assets. I know that if someone doesn’t have a valid will, there is a prescribed formula for deciding who gets what. And I know that certain things will automatically render a will invalid, such as […]

  Chain of evidence! You may think that this is a phrase confined solely to criminal matters – and if you’ve watched many tv crime drama shows (especially the wonderfully trashy American ones) you’ll be familiar with the regular story line of what happens when the chain of evidence is broken and the hero comes […]

I love playing with words. You can have so much fun by deliberately drafting something that is open to interpretation and then waiting to see how others choose to read it. For example, one of my favourite jokes is about Mickey Mouse talking to his divorce lawyer and saying “I’m not divorcing Minnie because she’s […]

You can’t fail to have noticed how much talk there is about AI these days. Everyone either loves it or hates it. Everyone is either predicting that it’s going to take over (and change) the world, and/or that it’s the worst thing to ever happen to us. I’ve certainly heard plenty of people talking about […]

When the battle’s lost, and won! I do love a bit of Shakespeare – I love the fact that despite how old his plays are, so much of what he wrote about is still true today. Better three hours too soon than a minute late – I always hate to be late, so I usually […]

It sounds like something that a couple would say in the middle of an argument. I believe you when you say you stayed in the pub THREE HOURS after you said you’d be home for dinner – I just don’t understand why you’d rather stay out drinking with your mates than come home and have […]