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irrelevant wafflings
Posted Nov 20, 2006
I'm abit niffed cos I am getting unwanted e-mails from people I don't know. Please stop hassling me. My name is Dan, I have a really boring job, with lots of stress and even more paperwork. You are adding to it significantly. You have probably got the wrong end of the stick. You know who you are Mr....
Cheers.
I now consider the matter closed.
Thankyou for your kind attention.
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How to shirk responsability when you've bitten more than you can chew.
Posted Nov 13, 2006
My casefiles are bulging, Will everybody just chill out! Its no big issue, take it easy, stop piling it on me, its not my department, er what is this all about, I've never heard such a load of BS in my life, leave me alone, I don't know anything about that, er this is the stick you got the other end of it, I'm overworked, p*** off, I can't deal with that, Go away...If that fails I tend to lock my office door, cellotape my mail box up, block e-mails, and change my phone number. If people don't hassle me when I'm in the pub i'm lucky...I'm going to give up telling people what I do for a living. I used to have friends before I did this job, now I just have plenty of other peoples problems and dodgy clients. Its a real pain in the bum. Why did I do it eh? I naturally want to help but you can't help all the people all of the time, if you try you just end up in deep water. *swims to surface for breath* Ahh I feel better for that rant. *crawls back under rock and hides*
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Opinions
Posted Aug 26, 2006
i.Dangerous Dogs
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My opinions
Posted Aug 26, 2006
What do I do in a day? Here is a little snippet of one of my afternoons last week, most of the stuff i deal with is quite mundane and routine but every so often you get something really interesting or something that makes you feel really good.
R v X
(Reporting restrictions applied on application by defence counsel, public interest argument, name of defendant available on request subject to s.4 DPA, s.11 OSA)
26/08/06
In Lancaster Magistrates Court
Dangerous Dogs
On the 12th August a dog belonging to the defendent (D.) attacked a passer by (C). C. suffered injuries to the lower leg. The prosecution submitted no further medical evidence as to the nature of the injuries.
The prosecution made the submission:
Where a dog can be shown to have caused an injury to a person beyond all reasonable doubt then the court may decide to follow one of three courses of action.
i) Make a destruction order for the dog, mandamus.
ii) Make a conditional order for destruction, this option encourages responsability for muzzling the animal or insisting that the animal is on a lead at all times, should the conditional order not be followed then the court may have no other option but to follow a mandamus order.
iii) Make no order against the owner regarding the animal and instead pursue alternative charges against the owner; (e.g s.48 Offences Against The Person Act, Assault occasioning ABH) this course of action may be followed only if the court is satisfied that the dog (or animal)has been used as a weapon, in which case a legal argument surrounds whether animals can be used as weapons.
It was submitted by D. that the dog had been lost or otherwise transferred to a third party.
The defence submitted that the new owner would have to be present for any destruction order to be made, the animal was no longer the responsability of the defendent. Defence counsel made the further submission that because of a lack of evidence on the nature of ownership of the dog there was insufficient evidence to prosecute under the Dangerous Dogs Act.
On a seperate issue D. was fined £25 for using foul and abusive language. Defence counsel raised no objection to the fine.
Case dismissed.
(fido lives - prosecution to buy lunch, )
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Stress, Solitude and Serendipity
Posted Feb 17, 2006
Been interested in law, I spend alot of time reading factual books and law reports. I rarely get time to read for pleasure now though there is nothing I love more than to escape into a different world, even if it i only for a few hours.
As literature is a form of subjective escapism, books that take you to outer rim of the imagination seem to top my list. HHG2TG is one of my favourite books, a dive into a world that has not yet been completed for me. It is submitted that the appeal of Douglas Adams stems from the way in which he blurs of the lines between fantasy and reality. The genius to me is in the way seemingly normal every day occurences are carried off into the fantasy world. The unlikely hero Arthur Dent is just so normal, except for the events he encounters, none of which he seems to have any control over. If only. If only somebody would take me hitchiking the galaxy, i'd love to see Saturn. In real life the probability of such events happening to a person are negligable. We have control over our own destinys, effects are often consequences of our own actions and decisions yet we are constrained by possibility, by science, by nature, by other people. Where else are we really free, except in our own imaginations?
Imagination can take you anywhere. If I close my eyes I can visit Saturn, If I close my eyes the world is a nice and peaceful place. If I close my eyes everybody I know is happy. If I close my eyes I can be an astronaught or a deep sea diver. If I close my eyes I can live in the most beautiful place, when I close my eyes I have the perfect lover, kind, sensitive, intelligent, attentive and beautiful.
Trouble is the imagination in reality is a very lonely place.Though reality has society, society is lonely too. Society is made up of billions of solitary imaginations. Billions of us in the same boat (i assume, i can't even prove your there, the Cartisian Cogito is the only surity).
The book, or more accurately the written word is a way of sharing the imagination, of building that bridge. Your in mine now, I was here imagining these words as I write/wrote, my imagination is maybe in a different place now or maybe here with you reader now! Communication is the only bridge in the real world, the written word has a particuarly ineffable qualia, for only when the words have intentionality does the imagination exist recorded, in some form, in the tangible world.
When the book shuts or the eyes open and the real world becomes focussed in my view, I am reminded the creatures Pandora released are still there. Occasinally I see the delicate butterfly of hope but if I turn for a second to watch the news, or read a newspaper the butterfly seems to disappear for a while. At least until I close my eyes again.
So there we have it, reading is a solitary past time, a lonley and anti social activity. Eventually, when your own imagination revolts against you and reminds you that you have spent too long reading and fantasising about the world its time to put down the book and get out there and make a difference. I got that. I got up off my arse and did something. It didn't take me long to realise that im no super hero, i'm not going to save the world. If I can make a difference to one persons life, if i can bring happiness when and where I can to people, if i can make a difference where i can then i'm happy as can be.
Here are my top five' books'
1.HHG2TG - Douglas Adams +
(a trilogy in more parts than i care to count - various authors, a book that may never end)
2. Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien. Ultimate escapism, a book that strecthces the imagination round all kinds of mythical creatures. Read it before you even think about watching the film. You have been warned.
3. Harry Potter - Much easier read than Tolkien, get through part 5 in a day or part 6, totally possible, and it feels like a real accomlishment. This book is such an easy read, turn your mind off and let your eyes glide over the page. Yes it is written for children but theres nothing wrong with adults who read Harry Potter. All six of the books would go in my top ten but i'm going to cheat and give my order of favourites here 4,5,6,1,3,2 theyre all good though.
4. Watership Down- Richard Adams. A story about rabbits. It's not always happy, its not always sad but read it and you'll never do 70 in a country lane again. Also a film. It is the only fiction stroy that has brought a tear to my eye.
5.Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dovstoyevsky (check spelling) I've lent my copy. I'm always wary of lending it too student friends. This book follows the student anti-hero through dark emotions and psycosis. Not for the feint of heart.
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