Counsel of Perfection
Wednesday 6 March 2024
In Defence of Jury Trial
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When you are slogging your guts out trying to bring some minuscule level of function to an essential but collapsing system it is wearing, to...
Wednesday 28 February 2024
Why I'm not watching The Jury
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There are increasingly few places that remain unviolated by TV cameras. Papal conclaves and jury retiring rooms are two that spring to my ...
Friday 2 February 2024
A paean to pupils and pupillage
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To outsiders it may seem that it's our horsehair wigs and Victorian starched collars that are the most unusual thing about the barrist...
Saturday 25 November 2023
Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
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The end of the prosecution case in England and Wales is conventionally the moment when the defendant’s interview under caution is adduced in...
Wednesday 20 September 2023
Counsel of Despair
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I recently tweeted the following observation: It’s important to say that the message that there’s no point in reporting sexual offences to ...
Wednesday 9 August 2023
Just One Of Those Things - Defending Andrew Malkinson
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Miscarry at one time meant merely mistake. In its modern usage it means the tragedy of a lost pregnancy or the tragedy of a wrongful convict...
Friday 30 June 2023
The Clink Restaurant at HMP Brixton
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Same place different experience. It's a statement of the obvious that two people can be in the same place having a radically different...
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