haha, you only have to report them? and people wonder why the legal system is so fucking corrupt.
We can't accept anything worth over a tenner from anyone.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:14, 3 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

no, the stuff i get only has to be reported, because it's tres low value
nobody bothers to bribe litigators you see.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:18, Reply)

nobody bothers to bribe academics either
doesn't stop it being a disciplinary offence to accept anything.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:19, Reply)

presumably that's because you mark things like exams?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:20, Reply)

well, yes. And choose who gets places on massively oversubscribed courses, etc
Obvs. But there's just as many opportunities to be morally unscrupulous as the result of a bribe in your line of work.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:23, Reply)

not really with what i do
referrals to clients yes, but 99% of my clients are big sophisticated corporate organisations; they already have advisers. other areas of law would have far more opportunity.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:29, Reply)

ah, right you are.
It's pissing annoying from my point of view when, say, one of my PhD students gives me a christmas present and I have to give it back. With a PhD I can't influence anything as the examiners are independent, but them's the rules.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:36, Reply)

He should hand it in to the lost and found and say "I think this belongs to Professor Badger"

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 11:36, Reply)

I read litigators as alligators

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:28, Reply)

We can't accept personal gifts AT ALL..
…and any thing other than the odd box of chocs goes through the finance office.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:20, Reply)

presumably that's because you hand out things like drugs?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:20, Reply)

Nothing to do with the legal system, it's the same here

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:22, Reply)

That you have to report them
or that you can't have them?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:24, Reply)

So basically, it's just lawyers that are institutionally corrupt here.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:31, Reply)

I suspect bankers too.
And financial advisors, judging by Dozer.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 17 Dec 2013, 10:37, Reply)