Overcome 

I loved Laura Mvula’s first album and am really looking forward to her (difficult) second one, “The Dreaming Room”, which is out in a couple of weeks. If this first release from it is anything to go by it is going to be great too.

Another Day, Another JR 

With the collapse of 2015 Two Tier contracts a variety of related claims were spawned. One of these grew out of an e-mail contact group we were initially involved. These were successful Duty Contract bidders who had, on that basis, invested in office, staff and other resources to “mobilise” for delivery. Presumably by way of […]

A Design For Life 

I have loads of potential songs to post today. New exciting stuff which you know I love. I am however going back 2 decades as tonight is the 20th anniversary show of “Everything Must Go” by the Manic Street Preachers in Leeds. My kids grew up listening to this in the back seat of my […]

Crowd Funding? 

Imagine you live in a terrace of houses*, have great relations with your neighbours and have created, over the years something of a community. Then, out of the blue, you are each, individually, served with eviction notices. There is big money to be made from “redevelopment”. You approach you local, liked and trusted solicitor who, […]

For National Limerick Day 

There once was Lord Chancellor Grayling Who’s policies always were failing Then Gove he came in Threw them all in the bin Now Chris just deserves a long jailing

Sauce for the Goose V 

A short while ago a Contract Manager gracefully backed down on a minor point, you don’t need 2 DSCC references if the original referral leads to more than 1 claim. She also stated, “Simon Pottinger was correct”, something of a shock to me – on a number of levels. Another client has just raised the […]

Tale of 1 Audit 

The file sample, for reasons which still remain unclear, sat in archive boxes somewhere at the LSC/LAA for over 3-years. They were then audited. We wrote an appeal in the summer of 2014. We wrote five, frankly helpful, Points of Principle in January 2015. Today we are trying to find audit paperwork for the LAA […]