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Small ad/Nachmieter gesucht
Seems appropriate to the date. Now why have I not got round to getting dual nationality?
View ArticleBarristers’ chambers on BBC radio/Radiosendung zu Barristern
There have recently been two half-hour programmes on BBC Radio 4 on which members of Outer Temple Chambers speak about their working lives. There is particular emphasis on the impact of the 2007 Legal...
View ArticleJudge John Neilan
Judge John Neilan is a judge at a district court in Ireland. That is similar to an Amtsrichter in Germany. There are judges like this in all countries, I should think. I have seen a couple of links...
View ArticleBefore the Supreme Court/Neues Gericht in England: die Vorgeschichte
In 1980 I qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature. In 1981 it was renamed the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Now we are to have the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (see...
View ArticleTwisted expressions/Drehwortwettbewerb
The German publisher Kiepenheuer und Witsch has a competition for twisted German sayings: Die Letten werden die Ersten sein. Eva Hasil Oh nein, ich habe Hochhaus verloren. Daniela Möhrke Das wird von...
View ArticleDavid Hawkes obituary/Nachrufe
I’ve read The Story of the Stone (the Dream of the Red Chamber) twice this year but I didn’t realize that David Hawkes, who translated the first three volumes, died on 31 July (the last two volumes...
View ArticleGerman cat case/Deutscher Katzenfall in Times
Gary Slapper reports on two weird cases in The Times. One of them is a case recently decided by the Frankfurt am Main administrative court (Verwaltungsgericht). The story begins with Peter Neumann’s...
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International Translator’s Day/Hieronymustag
(St. Jerome by Rubens, via Wikimedia Commons) Today is St. Jerome’s Day, which has now apparently become International Translator’s Day, and I am celebrating by translating. Here are a couple of...
View ArticleGuido Westerwelle
It was widely reported and tweeted yesterday that Guido Westerwelle, the FDP (Liberal) party leader who will be Germany’s next foreign minister, refused to speak English when requested to do so (28th...
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