Guest Writer: Kerry

The big news this week is that Legal-Island has been shortlisted in the Champion of Champions category in the Irish News Awards. With a number of awards already under our belt this would be truly be the icing on the Willy Wonka chocolate cake…

Volunteering on the Island continues with Pamela spending her time at the T.A.C.T. in Crumlin last week. She is pictured here with a Kestrel that is currently being trained to fly independently, in the hope that it will be released back into the wild soon. She also cleaned out and fed a range of animals including pigeons, blackbirds, sparrow hawks, ferrets, hedgehogs, rabbits and chickens (is this meant to be giving me ideas for the exotic meat options at the next Annual Review!?!). On Wednesday Pamela is attending a breakfast seminar ‘Social Media – Friend or Foe?’ organised by the NI Chamber at the Fitzwilliam Hotel, Belfast.

Our CEO has a busy day on Tuesday. He has internal meetings pretty much all day before facilitating a discussion group this evening on mediation and its future in Northern Ireland. Tomorrow he's off to Dublin to visit his old workplace, Northside Community Law Centre, to find out about their mediation project. On Thursday morning he's chairing a breakfast seminar also on the topic of mediation. Thereafter he's leaving his two step brothers, over from Manchester, to paint his house for 3 days while he goes and relaxes in London in early celebration of his birthday. He's good to himself our CEO...!

Scott is meeting Tanya Kennedy of BITC and Pauline Shepherd, ex-NI Water on Wednesday. On Thursday he will be chairing the Legal-Island event, Absence, Age and Retirement at the Radisson Blu, Dublin Airport. On Friday he will be working from home.

In her own words Heather will be ‘awesomely’ hosting two events - Absence, Age & Retirement and Understanding UK Employment Law - in the Radisson Dublin Airport on Thursday.

Jayne is in internal meetings for most of day on Tuesday and from Wednesday to Friday is attending a Toward Consulting Purposeful Coach Programme at the Culloden. (www.towardconsulting.com)

Both Peter and Ainsley will be coaching the Football team at Ballycraigy Primary School on Wednesday.

I will be hosting the Making Mediation part of your Practice Breakfast Seminar at the Holiday Inn in Belfast on Thursday morning and then have a meeting with the La Mon Hotel mid morning before returning to the office.

And finally I sadly missed out on an award myself this week... This award was for the best rescue of a non missing hen… I was just pipped at the post by Donna. Congratulations!

Birthday wishes to Jacqui and Barry this week.