Attorney Barbara McQuade, who published a model prosecution memo over a year ago on which we build.[14] Most recently, the consensus has been joined by Trump’s own former attorney general and one-time defender, Bill Barr,[15] and eminent conservative jurist Judge Michael Luttig.[16] A series of rare convictions of some of the leading insurrectionists under the charge of seditious conspiracy have now laid the groundwork for closely related insurrection charges against Trump. [read post]

The case of Rendlesham Estates Plc v Barr Ltd [2014] EWHC 3968 (TCC) is a bit off the housing law beaten track and as a result I have only recently got round to reading it properly. [read post]

OUTER HOUSE, COURT OF SESSION [2013] CSOH 28 P47/12 OPINION OF LORD DRUMMOND YOUNG in the Petition of Mr William MacReath Petitioner; for Judicial Review of a decision of the Law Society of Scotland Act: Ferguson QC, Watts; Simpson & Marwick, Alt: Lindsay QC; Anderson Strathern LLP (Law Society of Scotland) Alt: Miss C, personally (Interested Party)  20 February 2013 [1] The petitioner seeks judicial review of a decision of the Law Society of Scotland dated 10 January 2012. [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: CAFC sets strict standards to establish inequitable conduct: Star Scientific v R J Reynolds Tobacco: (Hal Wegner), (Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog), (Patent Prospector), (Patent Docs), (Patently-O), (more from Patently-O), (Philip Brooks), (Law360), (I/P Updates), Safe harbour ruling in Io v Veoh could help YouTube in Viacom… [read post]