New blog, same great taste

Clint Eastwood (of all people) once said ‘take your profession seriously; don’t take yourself seriously’.  It seems a sensible adage to live by, in the spirit of which you will notice a fairly drastic restructuring of this website.  In addition to http://nigebox.com, the site has been split in two, with a new sister site: http://nigelaw.com.  The former is now to be a tongue-in-cheek place for ranting about the world and a place for me to write about other things as I see fit.  It should be read with Clint’s wise words in mind, and not taken too seriously.

This however is the first post of nigelaw (see what I did there?) – the objective of which is quite different.  In September I will begin studying for the LPC (Legal Practice Course) in London, and will be writing about my experiences and hopefully collating some useful content on these pages.  I enjoy reading a number of serious (and not-so-serious) blawgs written by practitioners, academics and students.  The aim is to throw this blog in amongst them.

Exactly what form the ‘useful content’ mentioned above will take remains to be seen.  The approach I intend to take is to produce content that I find useful.  If over time others find it useful then all the better.  Hopefully by obliging myself to produce this content I will understand my course better.  If that’s not really happening, I’ll dedicate my time to other things.

The first project that I will be undertaking on here is something that I have decided to call ‘The Law And You’.  This will be a series of posts meant to provide an introduction to the law of England & Wales.  The aim is for them to be easily understood without any prior knowledge of the legal system.  Perhaps for young people thinking of studying law, or for anyone who wants to know a bit more about the way law works.