Jurisprudence, by the way, is the theory and practice of the law.
And the law is being found wanting, big time.
The latest case is the Omagh bombing trial, a ghastly event in 1998 in which 29 people died and about 200 …
Read Full Story »Portsmouth and England defender Sol Campbell, that is.
He has a point.
By all accounts the abuse aimed at players and managers is getting worse. Even the sainted Harry Redknapp, Sol’s club manager, lost his cool the other day at the stick …
There’s a case to be made that most Christmas parties go that way; if they’re fun someone gets into trouble, relationships end and you get a wigging (or worse) from the boss.
If they don’t, it was probably boring.
Quite why football …
We obviously need to tread carefully here.
The sainted actress Dame Helen Mirren has complained recently about the indignity she suffered when she was interviewed by ‘film director’ Michael Winner and, in her words, treated like a ‘piece of meat.’
Best osso …
Spain’s economy minister, Pedro Solbes, has ticked off the natives this week for leaving big tips – and thereby adding to inflation.
Before the euro came in in 2002 the Spanish, according to Pedro, would leave a 25 peseto tip in …
One Roy Den Hollander is suing a couple of Manhattan nightclubs over their policy of offering women free admission and/ or drinks, and not him.
The lawyer for Lotus, one of the clubs, Deborah Swindells Donovan (how many names do Americans …
Tony Blair’s old partner in crime Peter Goldsmith (the Attorney General who conveniently changed his mind about the legality of the Iraq War) has been putting the boot into PM Gordon Brown at regular intervals recently.
The latest was an interview …
BBC presenter Jonathan Ross is most famous for his £6m annual stipend from the BBC.
He used to be known for his wit, floppy hairstyle, dandyish clothes and spectacularly engineered other half but now it’s all money, money, money.
But the other …
To England that is, as we speculated yesterday after the News of the World got all excited about him taking the job.
Apparently he’s off to one of Real Madrid, Barcelona or AC Milan (the three best teams in Europe outside …
Former Telegraph boss Conrad Black has been told by a Chicago court that he’s looking at between six and eight years in jail for fiddling $3.5m from the company.
This looks remarkably generous actually as the non-compete clauses he inserted in …
