In Act III of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Bracknell remarks to idle young gentleman Algernon, ‘never speak disrespectfully of society. Only people who can’t get into it, do that.’ At that time, it was usual for men in the western world to carry facial hair and this continued until the First… Read More Beards, Beliefs and Best Practice
One of the recent debates on the Trust Discussion Forum has been about the circumstances in which a lasting, enduring, continuing power of attorney can properly be handed over. To whom does such a power of representation belong? When does ownership pass from the granter to the grantee? One solution can be to agree with… Read More Please Release Me, Let Me Go
In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Brutus famously tells Cassius: ‘There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current… Read More Cross-border incapacity on a flood tide?
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