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Expensive Lawyers

5 March, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I have found a reproduction of the London Underground map that replaces the station names with anagrams.  Bank becomes Knab and Westminster becomes Written Mess.  All very funny. Unfortunately it upset Transport for London (they aren’t making any money from it) who set their lawyers on the case.  The internet is now littered with the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: legal system, purpose

Legal Eagles

5 February, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The BBC ran a story yesterday about the effectiveness of the jury system.  A two year research programme looking at 68,000 verdicts has been undertaken. They came up with the following statistics: 70% of jurors said they understood the judge’s instructions. 31% of jurors actually could recall the judge’s instructions. 48% of jurors could recall […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: error proofing, legal system, work instructions

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