Counsel of Perfection

  Same place different experience. It's a statement of the obvious that two people can be in the same place having a radically different...

If I had the time or the inclination I would quite like to write a radio play about Edwardian advocates returning from a long day in court p...

Nothing new under the sun. You practise in criminal law long enough you find that what got abandoned 5 to 10 years ago as being hopelessly o...

Now that barristers are back at work following the end of the action the casual observer might be forgiven for thinking that all is well and...

I have resolutely hated being 'on strike' and I have absolutely no doubt that is true for the vast majority of criminal barristers. ...

When I started in pupillage we had a session on dress and appearance. This was extremely prescriptive. Pupils could only wear white shirts. ...

Looking back on nearly 10 years of blogging I've noticed that a topic that I've written about even more than underfunding of the cri...