Folly of the DayA Solicitor Brought a Discrimination Claim, Then Ignored Every Order the Tribunal Made and Every Letter It Sent. The Judge Struck It Out and Noted That He, of All People, Knew What Orders Were For.
A tribunal order is a request the state has stopped making politely, and a solicitor is a person paid to explain that distinction to other people. He spent his working life telling clients that the directions were not optional, and then discovered, on his own account, that they were not optional for him either. There is a particular species of arrogance available only to the professional: the belief that the rules one administers are a service one provides rather than a fence one stands inside.
Source: The Law Society Gazette
The WireHe Let an Artificial Intelligence Argue That He Had Worked Long Enough to Bring the Claim. He Had Not. He Was Warned Twice, Pressed On, and Has Been Ordered to Pay Aldi's Costs.
The machine did not lie to him; it simply agreed with him, which is what he had gone to it for. Every previous generation of the confidently wrong had to find a human being willing to nod, and human beings tire of nodding. This one has an appliance that never tires, and it cost him twelve hundred dollars to learn that a calendar is not a matter of opinion.
Source: Human Resources Director Australia
The WireIndia's Auditor Went Through the Science and Environment Ministries and Found the Familiar Inventory: Projects Abandoned, Machinery Idle, and ₹152.47 Crore Simply Never Collected.
Note that the sum was not stolen, not lost, and not disputed. It was owed, it was known to be owed, and nobody sent the letter. A ministry of science is an institution built on the proposition that measurement changes outcomes, and it has now been measured.
Source: Moneylife
The WireHe Posted on Telegram Encouraging People Not to Pay Their Energy Bills. The Advertising Regulator Ruled That This Was an Advertisement — Which Means He Was Selling It.
Every movement against the payment of bills arrives, sooner or later, at a man who has worked out how to make the non-payment of bills pay. The regulator's finding is not that the advice was bad, though it was; it is that the advice was marketing, which is a considerably more damning thing to have established about a philosophy.
Source: Advertising Standards Authority
The WireHotpoint Told Shoppers Its Appliances Compared Favourably With Rivals. The Regulator Asked Against What, Exactly, and the Comparison Did Not Survive the Question.
A comparative claim is a promise that somebody has done arithmetic. The commercial temptation is to skip the arithmetic and keep the promise, on the reasoning that nobody checks — a reasoning that holds beautifully right up until the one week a year somebody does.
Source: Advertising Standards Authority
The WireThe Company Promised, in Writing, That a Director Would Sit the Management Course. It Did Not. Then It Stopped Answering the Regulator Altogether, and the Regulator Took the Licence Away.
The undertaking was the cheapest thing in the file: one director, one course, one certificate. What was actually being tested was not competence but whether the company regarded the regulator as a real party to the agreement, and it answered that question in the only way regulators recognise — by saying nothing at all, at length.
Source: GOV.UK — Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
The WireA Town Justice Was Stopped Driving on a Suspended Licence. He Mentioned to the Troopers That He Was a Judge. He Has Now Agreed Never to Hold Judicial Office Again.
The word the Commission chose is 'gratuitously', and it is the whole case. He did not need the office; he reached for it because it was there, the way a man pats his pocket for his wallet. A licence suspension is a small humiliation designed to be survived quietly, and he could not manage the quiet part.
Source: NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct
Black-Robed EgomaniaSworn In as a Superior Court Judge on New Year's Day, He Carried On Being a Lawyer — Filing Motions, Appearing in His Own Jurisdiction, and Visiting a Client in Jail While Sitting on the Bench.
There is a reason the oath is taken on a fixed date rather than eased into over a season: the office is not a promotion within a career, it is the end of one and the start of another. He appears to have understood elevation as accumulation — the robe added to the practice rather than substituted for it — which is the precise vanity the separation of bench and bar exists to prevent. Four months is not an administrative delay. It is the length of time it took a man to stop being the more interesting of his two selves.
Source: Supreme Court of North Carolina / FindLaw