who must have passed a few deeply uncomfortable months. Let's hope that the principles are taken on board and he will be able to flourish in his career.

The final submissions regarding costs make, as ever, an interesting postscript.

Friday, November 05, 2010

Joshua Rozenberg, one of our most experienced legal commentators, deals in his recent Guardian column with, inter alia, the Louise Casey debate about whether certain lesser offences ought no longer to be triable before a jury of the Crown Court, and the alleged conduct of one of the police officers who shot Mark Saunders dead when giving evidence at the barrister's inquest.

Miss Casey's appointment as Victims' Commissioner, announced a short time before the recent election, was a stroke of luck for her, as her style (remember the 'RespectDumpstaphunk brought their brand of dirty New Orleans funk to Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, CA last night for a very special Halloween show.

It wasn’t just special because of the holiday, either. As noted by Live for Live Music, the Ivan Neville-led group also got some help from Grateful Dead guitarist (and co-owner of Sweetwater Music Hall) Bob Weir, who joined them on stage for a rendition of Earl King’s classic “Big Chief” and The Dead’s own dance-funk staple, “Shakedown Street.”

Weir has been a busy man lately. The rock icon has been touring with the popular Grateful Dead spin-off Dead & Co (which features John Mayer) for over a year now. He also recently wrapped up a tour in support of Blue Mountain, his first album of