Crime Verification 

Tomorrow is the final deadline for 2017 Criminal Contract verification. If you still have any outstanding issues you must submit items, via the e-portal by 23.59 tomorrow, 28/2/17. You can check what, if anything remains outstanding via the e-portal message board. This post is targeted at those who seek only Own Client “contracts” or those […]

To Be Without You 

This Ryan Adams tune is getting lots of airplay and whilst the album it comes from, “Prisoner” is yet to convince me this is excellent. Here he is solo and acoustic – the truest test of a songs strength.

More PoP? 

Very rarely the LAA allowed a Point of Principle (PoP) application of ours to proceed to a Cost Appeal Committee hearing. This audit involved files the LAA requested in around 2010/1, forgot about for 3 years, rediscovered and audited, and we initially appealed in the summer of 2014. The following PoP just about brings this […]

SQM Update 

On this occasion my predictive skills have proved weak and the Specialist Quality Mark staggers on as an alternative quality assurance standard to Lexcel, seemingly for at least another 3 years. For those facing an upcoming audit there are also a few changes you need to be aware of. From April there is a new […]

Adventure Time 

As we trailed previously tomorrow starts something of an adventure, both personally and for JRS. Over Thursday and Friday I will be available on the phone, coverage permitting, as we drive through France and onto Spain to our new temporary home in Vejer da la Frontera. This is a 3 month experiment to see if […]

Meteor Showers 

We are off to catch our last UK gig until May tomorrow night at top, low fi Boro venue, The Westgarth Social Club and via our favourite promoters, The Kids are Solid Gold. It is the launch show for this single by super talented local boy Tom Joshua. All this seems entirely appropriate.

Free Training Offer 

CRIMLA 41 is one of those helpful points of principle for those billing mags fees. We even have a trial preparation form, based upon it and designed to assist firms justify claims. Just go to the resources section of this very website and it can be yours to keep. Recently the LAA have rediscovered this […]

Go Back 

Generally, with the exception of phone calls, I get to listen to Radcliffe and Maconie in the afternoon on BBC 6 Music. It caters for my musical tastes, keeps me up to date with new releases and occasionally introduces me to new bands. This week I got interrupted, by such a call, half way through […]