Risk, Re-/Insurance and Future Thinking
From the category archives:
The Bar Council is proposing that less than competent barristers should be referred by colleagues and judges to a remedial panel to bring them [back] up to standard, according to the Times.
I am not quite sure how it is envisaged that this would work and whether it is, in truth, any more than window-dressing to [...]
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Trawling some files the other day, I realized that I had not posted a copy of my talk on “Bad Software” since it was expunged, with all other records, from iNews. So here it is in original Keynote format, and in pdf format.
Aproveches.
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Eric Sinrod writes on c|net about a big change in US law coming up on 1 December 2006.
>The new rules are designed to set out early structure, uniformity and predictability when it comes to e-discovery. Yet, from the very start of a case, the parties need to start evaluating with their IT teams and outside [...]
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In something of a landmark decision the Court of Appeal have today decided in the case of Meadows -v- GMC that an expert can be subject to disciplinary action.
Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls, said:
> It seems to me that the solution to particular problems in particular professions must be reached by discussion and, [...]
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US attorney, Roland Goss (no relation to Matt or Luke, I’m pretty sure ;-) ) alerted me to his team’s Reinsurance Focus, “a web blog covering items relating to reinsurance.”
Roland and his colleagues are from East Coast firm, Jorden Burt LLP, and one of the good things about the blog is that it expands [...]
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*[CAVEAT: More law than re-/insurance here, but still a good read]*
Jurist is an interesting, one-of-a-kind legal website.
>What is JURIST?
>JURIST (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu) is a Web-based legal news and real-time legal research service powered by a mostly-volunteer team of over 30 part-time law student reporters, editors and Web developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University [...]
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Summary
Under the 1979 House of Lords’ decision in Walkley v Precision Forgings Limited (1979) 1 WLR 606 a Claimant who issued proceedings, did not actively pursue them and allowed limitation to expire, was debarred from issuing fresh proceedings out of time. This has now been overruled by the House of Lords in Horton v [...]
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Brilliant site here, featuring the Old Testament…in Lego.
Highlights of [the Law section](http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/index.html):
* When to stone your children
* When to stone your whole family
* How long to hang somebody
and more.
Very South Park.
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This said-to-be-true story (it’s in CNN so it must be…;-) ) demonstrates at once the heaven and hell of the US legal system: hell in the idiocy of the lawyers involved; heaven in the judge’s brilliantly appropriate solution:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION
AVISTA MANAGEMENT, INC., d/b/a Avista Plex, Inc.,
Plaintiff,
-vs-
WAUSAU UNDERWRITERS [...]
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Arbitration has been a bugbear of mine for many years now. I gave a talk on “Why Arbitration is failing the Reinsurance Community” last December to a panel of…arbitrators (yeah, great idea, huh?) and we surprisingly only lost the vote by the smallest of margins.
The truth is that arbitration is slow, expensive, uncertain and [...]
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