Counsel of Perfection

Nobody likes job interviews. A lifetime of education, training and experience distilled into a 30 minute salvo of ‘What would you say is you...

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...

  There are increasingly few places that remain unviolated by TV cameras. Papal conclaves and jury retiring rooms are two that spring to my ...

  To outsiders it may seem that it's our horsehair wigs and Victorian starched collars that are the most unusual thing about the barrist...

The end of the prosecution case in England and Wales is conventionally the moment when the defendant’s interview under caution is adduced in...

 I recently tweeted the following observation: It’s important to say that the message that there’s no point in reporting sexual offences to ...

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...