One of the many disconcerting features of getting older is when young people look blank as you mention the name of someone you regard as seminal. I have had recent experience of this with James Thurber, my favourite comic writer, and even Rex Harrison. Rex Harrison attended the same dance classes as my grandmother in […]
REFLECTIONS FROM SITGES Mediation: Return of legal realism? I found the course stimulating and challenging. It gave me a real insight into mediation as an overall psychological process, with the intention of enabling a resolution which was acceptable to the parties, as opposed to one begrudgingly accepted in conventional negotiation or imposed by a Judge. […]
Last week saw Complete Counsel celebrate our 1st anniversary at a hugely successful event in Liverpool. Friends, clients and partners of Complete Counsel gathered at the roof-top terrace at West Africa House for drinks and food, where we were also proud to announce the launch of Complete Mediation. Photos from the event can be seen […]
Complete Mediation will begin offering a mediation service from July 2016. Complete Mediation is a sister company to Complete Counsel, which is an innovative digitally based service providing focused and economic support for Barristers. Complete Mediation will operate from Liverpool and is the first specialist mediation company in the city. However, it intends to provide […]
In previous articles, we have suggested that the Digital City does not have any specific location, but rather is constituted by the connections which the internet facilitates. Against this background, where the citizens are located might be regarded as essentially happenstance, but digitally they are all citizens of the same entity. However, personal interactions remain […]
Written by Sammy Nanneh and Charles Feeny A great deal of light has recently been shed on the advent of technology in our legal system. Moore’s law, that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles about every two years, has long buttressed society’s technological revolution. It has meant exponential growth in the technological sector, […]
Thank you for attending our symposium last Wednesday. The event was a great success (despite the weather) and provided an opportunity to really get to grips with a difficult area of the law. Thank you to those who participated on the panel and gave such interesting talks. For my part, I feel that the difference […]
When I announced at the beginning of this year that I was going to practise from my shed, it created some surprise, in particular amongst those credulous enough to believe it. So how has it gone? Well, overall I feel quite liberated and close to nature. There have been some downsides, in particular a few […]
The rules for the division of a prize, that is a captured Vessel in 18th Century Maritime custom, were elaborate and precise. In Patrick O’Brian’s, “Master and Commander”, Captain Jack Aubrey contemplates his share of the prize, the Danish ship, “DORTHE ENGELBRECHTSDATTER”, as follows: “As he let himself sink on to the long cushioned locker, he found […]
Pro-DIGI is a forum for discussion. Contributors are invited to discuss the emergence of the digital city, with particular emphasis on the developing business district of Liverpool. Paradoxically, the presence of much derided call centres in the city centre has created significant resource in IT support within the city. There is a tradition in Liverpool […]