Pretty sure that the answer is "at sometime in this millennium" but buggered if I know when. I did read the bloody Minmar case and the few that followed. I was bored shytless tbh.
Judgements read average out at one a week but depends on the trial I’m in or the hearing I’m prepping for. I’ve got a vast sentencing hearing at the end of the month and I read and applied about 8-10 for that.
Statutes slightly less but some are more frequently used than others.
For appeals I can read up to 7 or 8 new judgments, on top of the "usual" appeal judgments which are part of my repertoire.
Otherwise, I would read at least one new judgment every couple of days. The last one I read was yesterday, straight after it was handed down, for a trial I was in.
Quite a lot. I suspect you can work out how who earns a fair bit and who does not by how often we read legislation and case law. It is worth doing and is interesting. I doubt anyone reads a new statute from cover to cover but you have to read quite a few bits of them to get the whole gist when there i a new law eg I wrote a book on the Competition Act 1998 when it came out and I certainly read the whole statute for that as I had to comment on just about every clause for a start.
Lydia that’s bullsh1t. I earn a paltry amount and read judgements frequently. Some who earn a billion pounds a day in an MC firm might not read one for over a year.
Proper law firms have proper anorak PSLs who nerdishly read this stuff ready to answer with relevant quotes anytime an eqt partner needs to look like he actually knows something about actual nerdlaw to a client while on a transaction.
Most rainmaker types wouldn't know a statute if it came up and bit them on the bum.
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A whole statute?!
If SIs count then the tax tribunal procedural rules on monday. If they don't then a section in the Scotland act 1998 on Friday.
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Clergs, sorry not a whole statute but a section or schedule.
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judgments: lots. Have read 3 today, had to read about 12 last week.
Statutes: never the whole thing.
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Heffa, are you a litigator of some description?
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yup
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Yesterday.
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Heffa , you a bazza?
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yup
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Heffa,can I ask what type, Tax?
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Don’t be absurd.
I haven’t read a case since university and even then I only read the précis bits at the start.
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Never. That sounds shiteboring to the point of actually being a pile of actual poo.
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Tec, you may or may not be right,but I am sure it is a requirement for some disciplines where the law is ever changing and remains unsettled?
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God only knows. After a brief tinkering with family, medical and property law courtesy of the GLS I ran to corporate in PP and never looked back.
this academic law shite feels like a massive waste of life.
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commercial stuff
almost always contractual disputes in various different commercial areas
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Pretty sure that the answer is "at sometime in this millennium" but buggered if I know when. I did read the bloody Minmar case and the few that followed. I was bored shytless tbh.
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I was going to read the BritNed judgment this morning. And then I saw it was 200 pages long...
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I found reading and analysing cases and statutes a nice change after years of transactional work. It was nice and restful.
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I found reading and analysing cases and statutes a nice change after years of transactional work. It was nice and restful.
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Last week (judgment, not statute).
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It was so good that I had to say it twice.
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Are you biplexisnexis, Gwen? ;)
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No BC I'm Welsh. HTH. (heh)
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Judgements read average out at one a week but depends on the trial I’m in or the hearing I’m prepping for. I’ve got a vast sentencing hearing at the end of the month and I read and applied about 8-10 for that.
Statutes slightly less but some are more frequently used than others.
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That would be me injecting heroin into my right eyeball as preparation for reading a judgement.
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That’s a lovely drawing Buzz. Shall we pop it on the fridge with a magnet?
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Or on the dart board next to the pic of Dominic Raab?
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Brenda from Bristol wouldn’t like that.
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For appeals I can read up to 7 or 8 new judgments, on top of the "usual" appeal judgments which are part of my repertoire.
Otherwise, I would read at least one new judgment every couple of days. The last one I read was yesterday, straight after it was handed down, for a trial I was in.
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Quite a lot. I suspect you can work out how who earns a fair bit and who does not by how often we read legislation and case law. It is worth doing and is interesting. I doubt anyone reads a new statute from cover to cover but you have to read quite a few bits of them to get the whole gist when there i a new law eg I wrote a book on the Competition Act 1998 when it came out and I certainly read the whole statute for that as I had to comment on just about every clause for a start.
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I am reading a whole statute right this very minute.
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Lydia that’s bullsh1t. I earn a paltry amount and read judgements frequently. Some who earn a billion pounds a day in an MC firm might not read one for over a year.
Think before you spaff nonsense. Please.
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Proper law firms have proper anorak PSLs who nerdishly read this stuff ready to answer with relevant quotes anytime an eqt partner needs to look like he actually knows something about actual nerdlaw to a client while on a transaction.
Most rainmaker types wouldn't know a statute if it came up and bit them on the bum.
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Whilst I do read judgments, I tend to skip over a lot of the guff to get to the good bits.
But then, I am not bossing the netnet either, so perhaps that is why.
Id' never read an entire statue (unless it was tiny) but I will often check it for specific points which are relevant to whatever I'm doing.
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I have had the benefit of reading the post of my noble and learned ROF colleague Meh and I agree.
Will we ever again have anything on a par with bluebell time in Kent, etc? Spice it up, FFS.
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