Three Legs
/The Manx flag depicts three legs, with the apt motto Quocunque Jeceris Stabit (“wherever you throw it will stand”). . . .
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Caveat Emptor?
/Salesmen are usually eager enough to talk up their products, but not the Manx fish wholesalers. . . .
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/Etched on the window of Rods ‘n Reels in Ramsey is one we have not heard before . . .
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Chris Thorpe is a respected independent lawyer in the upstream oil and gas industry, and a established lecturer and author. Chris has a LLB in law from Magdalene College, Cambridge and trained as a barrister in London. He worked for eight years' as an in-house lawyer for BP and Marathon. Since 1991, Chris has run his own upstream legal practice, CPT Limited, which has acted for many upstream clients. He has extensive experience of international upstream transactions, principally in the North Sea, the FSU, Africa and the Middle East. Chris has spoken at many UK and International Conferences and Seminars, both public and in-house. His most popular current lecture is Fundamental of Upstream Petroleum Agreements, a two-day course with accompanying book.
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Drilling an exploration well is always a tense time for those involved in it, even the lawyers and contracts specialists whose contribution is usually finished before the well is begun. . .