Counsel of Perfection
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Demand a New Normal - Sort Out England's Courts
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When I started as a barrister, in the 21st century, I along with the other newbies received a pep talk on dress and appearance. Except thi...
Friday, 6 March 2020
Corona Caught to Crown Court - Sick Criminals?
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It is surely only a matter of days before the various ministries start to reveal their contingency planning for the full viral onslaught...
Thursday, 16 January 2020
The revealing lens - Let the cameras in
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With the exception of members of the Royal Family few people in society have more cause to distrust the media than Her Majesty's Judge...
Monday, 9 December 2019
Daemons of the Bar
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When a barrister is new everything is new including every opponent. As you get skittishly to your feet for the first time the concept of a...
Thursday, 31 October 2019
Decisions, Decisions - The Barrister's Burden
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Google reliably informs me that there are 1.5 billion websites in the world. How many of those have you visited? On a daily ba...
Thursday, 12 September 2019
An interview with Kieron Quirke writer of BBC series 'Defending the Guilty'
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Kieron Quirke was a theatre critic for the Evening Standard before he made it as a TV writer. His first show on TV was the cult...
Friday, 26 July 2019
Privilege Part 3
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In Lindsay Anderson's classic film If... of 1968 there is a scene in which a wide eyed new boy called Jute undergoes a test in which ...
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