{"id":37,"date":"2014-11-26T00:21:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2014-11-26T00:21:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:21:45","slug":"skeletons-not-zombies-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Skeletons, not zombies please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase Jackson LJ in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Civ\/2014\/1511.html\">Inplayer v Thorogood <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A gentle reminder to us all that skeletons are to set out concisely and in brief, and certainly not in a profit fashion (unlike this post) the key issues and authorities in a party&#8217;s case so as to enable a court to get to grips with a case.<\/p>\n<p>Useful to an advocate is the reminder that it is not just used for pre reading and the hearing but also after when pondering a reserved judgment. Therefore if it is what it should be then it stands as a constant reminder of why the judge should find in your favour &#8211; and if reminders such as this are necessary then a march may be stolen if your skeleton is that clear, concise paradigm of the art of written advocacy and the one the judge prefers to refer to.<\/p>\n<p>Now back to the regularly scheduled programming &#8211; limitation, which appropriately enough is running late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase Jackson LJ in Inplayer v Thorogood A gentle reminder to us all that skeletons are to set out concisely and in brief, and certainly not in a profit fashion (unlike this post) the key issues and authorities in a party&#8217;s case so as to enable a court to get to grips with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}