Yes, there is much to be writing about, and it will all appear here soon – including a post explaining what I have been doing and why there has been a gap in my reporting and commentary.

Briefly, I have been at LegalTech in New York with a brief break in Washington before that. As well as consuming time and energy, LegalTech always generates both material for articles and correspondence. We made a number of video interviews there and have been working to produce those.

Meanwhile, my Twitter timeline has been full of tweets and links about the ever-increasing volume of judgments following the UK Mitchell decision, as well as some vociferous opinion on them – those who sneer at Twitter as being all about what other people had for breakfast are missing a valuable – and always current – source of information. A second strand involves the conflict between Lord Chancellor Grayling’s ambitions to attract legal business and the way in which he and the Ministry of Justice seem intent on driving that business away; other jurisdictions, not least Singapore, are offering sensible alternatives.

In between all that, I spent time being sedated by a dentist, in rearranging appointments thanks to Oxford’s new status as an island, and working on the agendas for forthcoming conferences. Lastly, and more personally, my mother seemed threatened by serious illness which was somewhat distracting – and now, thankfully, not what it appeared to be.

Normal service will be resumed soon.