Mark Anderson

@ProfRobAnderson youtube.com/watch?v=KTLl6U…

Public Service Announcement: The word "bar" in bar exam is not an acronym. It doesn't stand for anything.

@QcWynter Why not both?

Electoral news from Essex suggests that had I accepted a very kind invitation to stand in the local elections, I would now be Councillor Colin Wynter. "Councillor Colin Wynter of Counsel" Was I frit or was I wise? Time will tell.

@DanNeidle @RBoosta10861 You Markaphobe!

@RBoosta10861 Pretty sure I've reported on more dodgy tax advisers called "Mark" than "Ali".

We’ve just been given 24 hours to take down our report on a dodgy Oxford accounting firm. Here’s the correspondence. On the Richter scale of legal threats, it’s somewhere between cornflakes and a kitten:

@QcWynter I wonder whether Lord Denning would have sided with the cricketer. After all, he was there first.

Is smashing a window an act of "non-violence"? In my 20s, I lived next door to a vicar. He had been having an affair with one of his flock. One night, husband of member of the flock turned up & bashed vicar's car with a cricket bat. I watched from window. It was extremely violent

@ProfRobAnderson This is based on a real situation where I was instructed on the recommendation of the solicitor acting for the party who omitted to include the term in the final agreement. We took advice from a KC who said we had a strong case on one or more of the three remedies mentioned.

@IPDraughts Interesting. So English law has substantial exceptions to the parol evidence rule, I take it?

Transactional law ethics: Say the negotiations for a deal included agreement on a specific term favorable to the other side, but later the other side's counsel offers up a draft that omitted that term. Should you on your own initiative mention that the term was left out?

@ProfRobAnderson Well, we repealed it in 1954!

Can anyone think of an example of another text that is this old or older that has survived nearly verbatim in the law of most states? I'm sure there's something I'm not thinking of? 2/2

I'm all for not fixin' what ain't broke, but it seems highly unlikely that the English Parliament got the writing requirements for contracts so perfectly in 1677 that their version of the Statute of Frauds should persist nearly verbatim in so many states' codes. 1/2

@YorkshireParkin @history99917180 Snap! I have received several calls about insulating my loft, when I don't have a loft, and a text yesterday saying that the sender's "records indicate" that I could be owed money for mis-sold car finance, when I have never bought a car on finance.

@history99917180 I love those calls. I spend ages pretending to be senile and confused, then I say, in the same croaky voice; "Does your grandmother know that your job is robbing old ladies?"

Morning all. As most of you know, my last role in the job was as a Detective Sergeant. Well, today I had to utilise some of my DS skills. Got a call from a chap claiming my Sky broadband had been hacked. But, I knew it was a scam as we don’t have Sky. I’ve not lost it.

@DemocritusSr Did he learn his English from the film of Whisky Galore?

Jorge Luis Borges on the riches of English

@ProfRobAnderson So, not: 1. The Kardashians (except perhaps daddy K) 2. Whether Michael Carrick should get the job permanently. 3. Fat jabs. 4. Jeffrey Epstein +/- Peter Mandelson, the man formerly known as Prince (Andrew), his missus, Ghislaine (daughter of the terrible Robert Maxwell), et al.

I am often asked by media to comment on current events far outside my areas of expertise. As a result, I have published this list of my current areas of expertise to facilitate these discussions.

@BestMovieMom True evil was Jeremy in Play Away. youtube.com/watch?v=LkHfOl…

To embody the cold, calculating CEO in Margin Call (2011), Jeremy Irons studied interviews of top bankers from the 2008 crisis, aiming to capture their calm, almost inhuman composure. He said that “real power never yells.”

@ProfRobAnderson theguardian.com/politics/live/…

Law school professor secret: We don't know how to pronounce a lot of the case names either.

@fjmd1 @Colin_P_A_Jones Also interesting to see the huge increase in the number of vape shops...

@Colin_P_A_Jones There's a way in which legal and social norms co-evolve. In England the "no smoking in public places" law works only because it is also now the social norm and that is partly because of the laws existence. Police certainly don't enforce it.

It's also shaped by ordinances that prohibit littering. There are also criminal laws that may apply depending on the nature of the detritus. Penalties are minor and enforcement is probably rare, but I think this is an example of a norm that has been gradually introduced gradually over time through multiple streams, one being public messaging, another rules, another their enforcement. Littering was pretty routine and egregious when I first came here in the 1980s. The same process is happening now with bicycles, both how they are parked, and how they are ridden. These rules are not really turned on like a switch. They are introduced, socialized, gently enforced at first, gradually ratched up...

@casescasescases Lucky it wasn't "...in institute legal proceedings"

Very late Christmas gift has arrived.

@fjmd1 @casescasescases Spoonerisms are good...

@casescasescases You might consider the closely related solipsism.

My New Year’s revolution is to use more malapropisms.

@fjmd1 @casescasescases Though nowadays, we tend to refer to deeds rather than specialties; the latter sounds rather Shakespearian: ipdraughts.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/let…

@casescasescases The clever answer is that, it will be if it is a specialty. The master answer is that, even then, it won't be *specifically* enforceable.

Remember that without consideration your New Year’s resolution is not enforceable in any court in England & Wales.

@itsme_urstruly Elon Muscat

What would you name him? 😂

@casescasescases And of course, some of the Act applies to all contracts, or all property transactions, not just real property.

Just look at the lineup on this podcast. Unreal for those of us with an unhealthy interest in the law of real property.

@drhingram The Sea of Tranquility

Evri have delivered my parcel to the wrong address. Does anyone recognise where this is please?

@AgathaChocolats The tree was at fault.

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity #Christmas #cats