Man paralysed in Road Traffic Accident takes up extreme sports
April 17, 2012
I would urge everyone to read the truly inspirational story of Barry West at:
Click here to read the article in The Sun.
Barry was just 19 when he was paralysed from the neck down in a road traffic accident. Since then, Barry has however taken up skydiving, scuba diving and paragliding!
Far from leaving it at that,…
A Disappointing Week in the US Supreme Court – We Can Top That
June 27, 2011
I have been a member of the Aviation section of the American Association for Justice for 21 years now. I regularly receive their emails and although they are often of limited interest I am keen to see how the legislature and Courts in the US are developing in these challenging times. The President of the AAJ, C.Gibson Vance, sent an email on Friday evening entitled “a disappointing week in the US…
Death of Osama Bin Laden
May 4, 2011
Although I love working with America our two nations do have different perspectives and whilst I understand the show of patriotism following the announcement of the death, I do not associate with it. I will be more interested to know the reaction of British victims to the news. Elizabeth Turner was working at Channel 4 when news broke of the attacks on the World Trade Centre. She lost her husband Simon…
It’s cool up North!
January 17, 2011
News that Manchester had been placed at No 20 (ahead of Miami and Zanzibar) in the New York Times list of places to go in 2011 was greeted with foreseeable derision by much of the country’s London-based press who have probably never even visited. That made the super defence by Carol Midgley in Friday’s Times more enjoyable, particularly as I am a member of the Times Law panel.
The debate about…
