There is one tremendously effective ingredient that can be deployed to baking bread, employment (and other legal) disputes, and negotiating to buy or sell property. Time. Time is a fundamental part of good baking but can also be used to telling effect in negotiating disputes. For example, in an employment dispute where the employee is…
I have had 1 complaint against me since I qualified as a solicitor in 2011. One complaint in ten years is not a bad record, I think it’s fair to say. That complaint was submitted to the Legal Services Regulatory Authority in July 2020 and no decision has been made to date, some 10 months’…
I have just discovered a tremendous source of high-quality podcasts: the good old British Broadcasting Corporation-also known as the BBC. I listen to audio books and podcasts all the time. When I am exercising in the evening after work, when I drive to and from work, and when I mow the grass at home at…
Social media plays a massive role in my business. It has done for years and has been a driving force in the development of my solicitor’s practice. Sometimes, though, it seems like a tremendous obligation and burden, a ravaging animal that must be fed fresh meat each and every day. A pain in the ass,…
I don’t suppose the Covid/anti mask/anti vaccine deniers will be influenced by the global death toll from coronavirus reaching three million on Saturday. Yes, three million, as reported by the Johns Hopkins University in the United States. It was ‘only’ two million in January 2021. And it is thought the number could be higher on…
I never expected my YouTube channel would give me a glimpse into a particular type of world: the world of conspiracies, misinformation, disinformation, far right activity, straightforward lies, delusion, and more. But that is what has happened. I see it in the comments section of certain videos which appear to attract commenters with a degree…
I wrote yesterday about receiving what I knew to be a deeply unfair one-star review on Google My Business. I knew it was unfair because I had advised the chap professionally and honestly. I knew it was not the advice he wished to hear-that is, his position was such that he had no legal remedy…
The system by which Google allows reviews to be published for small businesses is inherently unfair and open to abuse. Let me explain. In my business I am charged with the task of providing legal advice to persons who contact me. Often this advice is concerned with an employee’s position in the workplace or the…
Do you know someone, a friend or family member perhaps, who appears to be occupying a parallel universe when it comes to conspiracy theories generally, and covid-19 conspiracies in particular? The Ryan Tubridy radio show received an email from an individual last week telling Ryan of a family member who sees conspiracy everywhere. The writer…
10,000 YouTube subscribers. It’s hard to believe. I received notification in the early hours this morning that I had reached 10,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel. It is especially difficult to believe, when I look back to the first video I uploaded to YouTube. That was on St. Patrick’s day, 2011, nearly ten years ago….