I had to apply for permission to give evidence early in a trial because I was going on my honeymoon. He granted it (“Her honeymoon will be a seminal event in the life of Miss Franks”) but the defendant then fell over

It’s their response to Tamiefuna v R

Can rec knitting patterns but not crochet unfortunately! Congrats and good luck.

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What’s the justification? Foreign judges are “better”?

“The 'do minimum' option would cover work to improve the electrical system and maintenance technology, and deal with asbestos a bit.”

I think it’s time for me to finally write up my complaint about the state of facilities and care. Not sure how I will find the time but JFC.

You see, the great thing about law is that it comes down to what the law says, regardless of how “distinguished” or “leading” or “expert” a lawyer may be.

It is a curiously egalitarian subject, where a cat can speak to a king, or at least to the king’s counsel.

From this, we realized we could generate large portions of some books with certain models, like a near-pristine copy of Harry Potter using Llama 3.1 70B.

This work is ongoing; preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.12546

More to come (hopefully soon)!