Steph Lovegrove
@stlovegrove.bsky.social
Barrister, butler of a Cavalier KC spaniel, nature and history lover, writes stuff.
On days when you’re sick as a 🐷 look for the brighter side. Merlin’s Winter coat arrived! ❤️🐶 He has boots for snow days too!
September 17, 2024 at 2:01 PM
On days when you’re sick as a 🐷 look for the brighter side. Merlin’s Winter coat arrived! ❤️🐶 He has boots for snow days too!
Reposted by Steph Lovegrove
Seeking Trainee Solicitor to assist in our conveyancing department.
Have you passed the LPC and working as a paralegal? The training contract carrot 🥕 dangled hasn't turned into a contract?
We are in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Apply sonya@nlr-solicitors.co.uk
Have you passed the LPC and working as a paralegal? The training contract carrot 🥕 dangled hasn't turned into a contract?
We are in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Apply sonya@nlr-solicitors.co.uk
September 9, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Seeking Trainee Solicitor to assist in our conveyancing department.
Have you passed the LPC and working as a paralegal? The training contract carrot 🥕 dangled hasn't turned into a contract?
We are in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Apply sonya@nlr-solicitors.co.uk
Have you passed the LPC and working as a paralegal? The training contract carrot 🥕 dangled hasn't turned into a contract?
We are in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Apply sonya@nlr-solicitors.co.uk
Reposted by Steph Lovegrove
I sat in town this morning outside a cafe with Dora-Pup & enjoyed a cappuccino in the unexpectedly humid September air & watched a handsome slicked back hair Italian boy be spoiled by his Mother, who arrived late & after ruffling his locks & going inside to order, emerged with a large plate of cake>
September 7, 2024 at 6:53 PM
I sat in town this morning outside a cafe with Dora-Pup & enjoyed a cappuccino in the unexpectedly humid September air & watched a handsome slicked back hair Italian boy be spoiled by his Mother, who arrived late & after ruffling his locks & going inside to order, emerged with a large plate of cake>
Watching the Green Party Conference and cannot get Rik Mayall in the Young Ones out of my head…
a man in a suit is making a funny face in a blurry video .
Alt: Rik in the Young Ones flicking an almighty bird at the establishment.
media.tenor.com
September 6, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Watching the Green Party Conference and cannot get Rik Mayall in the Young Ones out of my head…
Reposted by Steph Lovegrove
Reposted by Steph Lovegrove
If you haven't yet blocked @gbnewsonline.bsky.social, what's stopping you ?
August 31, 2024 at 5:05 PM
If you haven't yet blocked @gbnewsonline.bsky.social, what's stopping you ?
For you cheese-lovers out there.
Okay I think you are ready for this BlueSky. Let's talk cheese history.
More specifically, Yorkshire Dales cheeses, and how WW2 and rationing almost wiped out cheesemaking in northern Britain.
This is the story of the near-death of the world of one of the world's great cheeses: Wensleydale. /1 🧵
More specifically, Yorkshire Dales cheeses, and how WW2 and rationing almost wiped out cheesemaking in northern Britain.
This is the story of the near-death of the world of one of the world's great cheeses: Wensleydale. /1 🧵
a cartoon character in a suit and tie is pointing at the camera and saying cheese .
Alt: animated gif: wallace from wallace and gromit being very excited about cheese.
media.tenor.com
August 31, 2024 at 5:26 PM
For you cheese-lovers out there.
Need to ask his groomer what conditioner they use… 🧐
August 31, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Need to ask his groomer what conditioner they use… 🧐
The Netflix docuseries “Wyatt Earp & the Cowboy War” is ridiculously (& surprisingly) entertaining. Ed Harris narration makes it. JP Morgan shooting pigeons with Lord Rothschild and the future Edward VII was 🤨
August 31, 2024 at 2:29 PM
The Netflix docuseries “Wyatt Earp & the Cowboy War” is ridiculously (& surprisingly) entertaining. Ed Harris narration makes it. JP Morgan shooting pigeons with Lord Rothschild and the future Edward VII was 🤨
Reposted by Steph Lovegrove
An excoriating analysis of the dire state of the US Supreme Court, by Lord Sumption, former UK Supreme Court Justice and Honorary Fellow of Magdalen.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/north-...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/north-...
The president’s crimes
The oldest constitution in the world was not made for the political culture of modern America. The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v United States is a symptom of its crisis
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
August 28, 2024 at 6:02 AM
An excoriating analysis of the dire state of the US Supreme Court, by Lord Sumption, former UK Supreme Court Justice and Honorary Fellow of Magdalen.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/north-...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/north-...
Fascinating and aspirational in several respects!
In the other place recently, @jacobgiffordhead.bsky.social asked why students study the subjects that they do, as part of an LLB. To help answer that question, I thought it would be interesting to post up details of the very first Bar Training Manual, written by Edward Cox in 1856.
August 25, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Fascinating and aspirational in several respects!
The second with an Apple pen.
Guy Fawkes's signature before trying to cancel his Times online digital subscription and after.
August 24, 2024 at 5:18 PM
The second with an Apple pen.
Boys don’t vie… 🎶
287 years of judicial complaints about the contents of witness statements/affidavits - has the legal profession got the message? www.civillitigationbrief.com/2024/08/22/n...
NO “VYING AND REVYING”: WITNESS STATEMENTS, EVIDENCE AND LOTS OF OTHER MATERIAL BESIDES: AFTER 287 YEARS OF JUDICIAL PROMPTING HAVE PRACTITIONERS GOT THE MESSAGE?
Anyone involved in civil litigation will spend a great deal of their time reading witness “evidence” which, in reality, is no such thing. Witness statements tend to be seen as an oppor…
www.civillitigationbrief.com
August 23, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Boys don’t vie… 🎶
Here’s a Merlin puppy pic. Night.
August 20, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Here’s a Merlin puppy pic. Night.
Two in five UK workers check their emails on holiday
www.thetimes.com/article/eb85...
I thought we were all a bunch of feckless, wfh gits?
www.thetimes.com/article/eb85...
I thought we were all a bunch of feckless, wfh gits?
Two in five UK workers check their emails on holiday
Workers on six-figures salaries work up to three days of a seven-day holiday, while almost half of Britons don’t take their full leave allowance, NatWest says
www.thetimes.com
August 20, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Two in five UK workers check their emails on holiday
www.thetimes.com/article/eb85...
I thought we were all a bunch of feckless, wfh gits?
www.thetimes.com/article/eb85...
I thought we were all a bunch of feckless, wfh gits?
Merlin went to “Posh Pets” groomers today… still not sure he has forgiven the close shave.
August 20, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Merlin went to “Posh Pets” groomers today… still not sure he has forgiven the close shave.
Well done, that chap.
Just seen a headline in one of the papers, saying Boris Johnson is about to publish his memoirs. A good time to remember this superb letter written during the pandemic.
August 19, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Well done, that chap.
Right. Who ordered Autumn?
August 19, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Right. Who ordered Autumn?
I love litigation. 7am telecons whilst on annual leave are my thing.
a man and a woman are sitting at a table with nbc written on the bottom of the screen
Alt: Image from Brooklyn 99
media.tenor.com
August 19, 2024 at 7:23 PM
I love litigation. 7am telecons whilst on annual leave are my thing.
Stolen from 11 who is in her creative era.
August 18, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Stolen from 11 who is in her creative era.
Working on an Equality Act 2010 case atm involving issues about the right to know what an assessor is saying to a judge (whether advisory or otherwise). This makes for interesting reading in context. Anthony Dickey in the Modern Law Review (Sept 1970).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
THE PROVINCE AND FUNCTION OF ASSESSORS IN ENGLISH COURTS*
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 18, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Working on an Equality Act 2010 case atm involving issues about the right to know what an assessor is saying to a judge (whether advisory or otherwise). This makes for interesting reading in context. Anthony Dickey in the Modern Law Review (Sept 1970).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
When the time comes… please let it be this - for 11’s amusement alone.
August 18, 2024 at 7:33 PM
When the time comes… please let it be this - for 11’s amusement alone.
What’s your sign?
August 18, 2024 at 6:22 PM
What’s your sign?
Saturday nights in my 40s are so much better than my 20s #geriatricmillennial #cavsofbsky
August 17, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Saturday nights in my 40s are so much better than my 20s #geriatricmillennial #cavsofbsky
