I'd be very interested to see exactly who, if anybody, will pick up the tab for this massive lacuna in the system that's been exposed by this wretched firm's poor choices. The insurance companies? Unlikely. The SRA? Equally unlikely. The taxpayer? Probably the best bet. But that's you and me, and anyway I can't see how the Treasury can right this shameful wrong without setting a precedent for future claims whenever our systems mess up, and ordinary folk get screwed over. Maybe all three groups could be persuaded to find a third of the money each. If I were the PM, that sort of deal would be what I'd be seeking. But the insurance companies and the SRA can only be persuaded, not forced, and neither are interested in reputational damage. If anything, they appear to feel they are assisted by being seen as hard.
If it's of any interest, the SRA has struck me off the Roll of Solicitors for refusing to pay it £20 pa just to tell them once a year that I'm still alive. (Recent government regulations now require them to update their register annually. I'm happy to co-operate, but not happy to shell out. I never made much money from being a solicitor, largely because I was more interested in justice.)
Anyway: keep up the pressure, Tribune. Don't let this dreadful scandal slip from sight. Its victims deserve all the help and support they can get.
I am part of the majority (for a change) in saying I trust The Tribune. I would be interested to know more about the minority 8% who don't trust The Tribune and will they remain subscribers? One recent commenter suggested political bias as a reason that might discontinue their subs. Is there such a thing as unbiased journalism?
Walter Carruthers Sellar, Aegrot: Oxon and Robert Julian Yeatman, Failed M.A., etc., Oxon. These are not explained in the book, but Sellar's "Aegrot" (in full, Aegrotat) signifies the award of a degree when he was too ill to attend the examination; and (according to a source that I cannot find) Yeatman was unable to pay the £10 fee required to turn his B.A. into a M.A.
Oh dear. SCC's Town centre expansion in food and drink establishments meets SCC expansion in Town centre residential living. It was always bound to happen. The two are well nigh incompatible unless weekday venues opening hours are curtailed. Apart from some shift workers, who needs a takeaway and alcohol at 2 in the morning on a weekday? Or maybe I'm just a killjoy!
I'd be very interested to see exactly who, if anybody, will pick up the tab for this massive lacuna in the system that's been exposed by this wretched firm's poor choices. The insurance companies? Unlikely. The SRA? Equally unlikely. The taxpayer? Probably the best bet. But that's you and me, and anyway I can't see how the Treasury can right this shameful wrong without setting a precedent for future claims whenever our systems mess up, and ordinary folk get screwed over. Maybe all three groups could be persuaded to find a third of the money each. If I were the PM, that sort of deal would be what I'd be seeking. But the insurance companies and the SRA can only be persuaded, not forced, and neither are interested in reputational damage. If anything, they appear to feel they are assisted by being seen as hard.
If it's of any interest, the SRA has struck me off the Roll of Solicitors for refusing to pay it £20 pa just to tell them once a year that I'm still alive. (Recent government regulations now require them to update their register annually. I'm happy to co-operate, but not happy to shell out. I never made much money from being a solicitor, largely because I was more interested in justice.)
Anyway: keep up the pressure, Tribune. Don't let this dreadful scandal slip from sight. Its victims deserve all the help and support they can get.
I am part of the majority (for a change) in saying I trust The Tribune. I would be interested to know more about the minority 8% who don't trust The Tribune and will they remain subscribers? One recent commenter suggested political bias as a reason that might discontinue their subs. Is there such a thing as unbiased journalism?
Walter Carruthers Sellar, Aegrot: Oxon and Robert Julian Yeatman, Failed M.A., etc., Oxon. These are not explained in the book, but Sellar's "Aegrot" (in full, Aegrotat) signifies the award of a degree when he was too ill to attend the examination; and (according to a source that I cannot find) Yeatman was unable to pay the £10 fee required to turn his B.A. into a M.A.
Oh dear. SCC's Town centre expansion in food and drink establishments meets SCC expansion in Town centre residential living. It was always bound to happen. The two are well nigh incompatible unless weekday venues opening hours are curtailed. Apart from some shift workers, who needs a takeaway and alcohol at 2 in the morning on a weekday? Or maybe I'm just a killjoy!