The Jolly Contrarian:About

Amwell J

This website is the product of years of accretive rambling and doodling on the part of one mediocre lawyer. Call me Amwell. I’m not a judge. Occasionally, I have summarized, extracted, adapted, borrowed or outright copied snippets I've found on the internet, sometimes changing just names and identifying characteristics, but mostly it’s just my own fevered ramblings.

Bits of it — especially the anatomies — contain material in which copyright is vigorously claimed --- but to the extent one accepts that claim (and I’m not sure I do) I'd argue this reproduction is fair use for intended study purposes’'. Plus no-one looks at this site anyway.

Plus, anyone to whom I might commercially exploit this wonderful wiki (wouldn’t that be nice!) who isn’t in the employ of a licence-holding institution must be a stone cold weirdo. No one reads a ISDA for fun.

So - even if a trade association can claim copyright in text which was generated by consensus, in committee, without compensation over a period of years - I don’t feel like I'm outraging anyone's public decency by replicating and analysing text which — as you'll see if you read on — the composition of which is nothing to be proud about anyway.

If you wanted to help

Now the Jolly Contrarian doesn’t advertise, and he doesn’t earn anything from this site, and that’s just fine – it’s a labour of love (and resignation) of which you are welcome to make what you will. But if you have found something you like, and you were minded to say thanks, do it this way: donate to Georgia’s Fund. Or you could snag yourself a copy of Hunter Barkley’s e-book The Montenegro Sanction. That way you get yourself a free book with a stupid but fast-paced story and you donate to Georgia’s Fund at the same time. Bonus.

Georgia’s Fund

Georgia was a brave, talented, beautiful little girl. She had a lovely smile which she wore through a whole lot of hardship. She was a great little cricketer, and she was mad about animals. Especially wolves. In October 2016 Georgia was taken away from her mum, dad and big brother, and they – and all of us in the family’s wider community – miss her terribly.

Georgia’s mum and dad have set up a fund in Georgia’s memory, which, as of what would have been Georgia’s 17th birthday in 2021, had raised around £200,000 to support research into better treatments for Neuroblastoma (through Children with Cancer UK and Neuroblastoma UK. A small portion will go to looking after wolves.

Cricket can look after itself.

The good news is that the fund is now formally registered as a charitable fund (UK charity no. 1099682), so is eligible for gift aid and all that jazz.

You can now donate easily by clicking right here.