I am delighted to introduce today’s fascinating guest post from Cheryll Kerr, a freelance court reporter from America who has taken depositions far and wide – from Europe to the Middle East, as well as in the States. This high-powered job requires incredible skills – I’ve seen them in action and I was amazed. Continue reading
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JPC Law uses Facebook to serve Worldwide Freezing Injunction
Today I have another guest post for you, by Vicki Woolf, a trainee solicitor due to qualify at the end of March 2012. Vicki works at JPC Law (Jaffe Porter Crossick LLP), a commercial and private client practice covering the spectrum of business law as well as individuals’ legal affairs. During Vicki’s GDL she obtained a placement at Bird & Bird, and on graduating she interned at a Wall Street firm in New York.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this interesting development in practice!
It has recently been reported that Hastings County Court granted permission for a Court Order to be served on a Defendant via Facebook.
In 2010, the JPC litigation department successfully obtained an order allowing for a Worldwide Freezing Injunction to be served by Facebook. The standards for obtaining a Worldwide Freezing Injunction are exceptionally high, however JPC were able to obtain the Injunction and persuade a High Court Judge to allow service by this unconventional method. It transpired throughout the course of events that it was the Facebook messages that led to the successful service on the Defendants.
Omne trium perfectum – everything that comes in threes is perfect
I am delighted to introduce the first guest post of this blog, written by Diana Rubanenko, a translator and editor who draws on a ‘rich tapestry of employment’ and a fascinating life – for more details see here: http://rubanenko.com/.
Mixed metaphors
Not strictly a guest post, but a delightful nugget found and sent in to me by Mary Lynn, a former Vice-Consul well versed in administrative burden, and reader of this blog. The trial order came to the attention of the press in August, so you may have seen it, but if you haven’t – enjoy!
A Kentucky judge, Martin Sheehan, received news of a settlement in a bitter legal malpractice suit he had been overseeing. Sheehan summed up his feelings about the development in an order cancelling the trial: Kissel v. Schwartz & Maines & Ruby Co., LPA, et al.
Credits: Reuters/Underhill.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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