2025 Gear Abstinence Thread - updated with "Rules"   I spent New Years' Eve in the company of a good friend who has just retired from teaching recent law graduates how to actually practice law (teaching them soliciting). We were talking about how English Law develops over time and is set more by what the judges decide than is written in statute, though it is always worth looking at the letter of the law. With that in mind I went back over a few years' worth of these threads to see if w