Posted in Legal Profession, tagged barristers, barristers chambers on April 20, 2008 | 12 Comments »
From 2000 to 2006, there was a gradual reduction in the number of feral (wild) barristers in England and Wales. This decline includes the cumulative losses from all factors such as reduction in legal aid, fewer prosecutions being brought, solicitor-advocate mites, and personal injury solicitors retiring and going out of business. However, late in the [...]
Posted in Humour, Legal Profession on March 31, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Dear Diary,
Nick Brown (now with added De Lacey) has been basking in his new found fame. I confess that I remain fascinated. In some ways it is a tribute. Rarely does one person, on one programme for one hour, make such an impression. But now that Nick is off to Crown Office Chambers (although curiously absent from [...]
Posted in Legal Profession, VM on March 27, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Dear Diary,
How long it is since I have seen my ink spurt forth on to your virgin page. I am afraid that, as I age, it becomes more difficult to summon the tide of literary output which once, without effort, flowed tumultuously across your pure cream face, like a skier carving a turn on softly [...]
Posted in Legal Profession on March 8, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Ruthie thanks regular readers for their patience whilst she continues through a lengthy trial in a location with intermittent internet access. VM is also currently occupied with weightier matters than dress shopping.
Ruthie finds herself as the only woman and the only solicitor-advocate in her current trial. Following the recent changes in court dress Ruthie [...]
Posted in Criminal Procedure, Humour, Legal Profession on February 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Dear Diary,
A new terror is to be added to life if Lord Falconer gets his way. It is proposed that previous reports of the facts of cases currently being tried should be removed from the internet for the duration. Not to do would be a contempt.
The fear is that jurors go searching for material which [...]
Posted in Legal Profession, Politics on February 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Ruthie can’t help thinking that the many people have got the inverse side of the pointy twig in relation to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent comments about Sharia. The Archbishop should however perhaps be more mindful that his musings make headlines, and if there is a reason for him to resign it should be for [...]
Posted in Corruption, Events, Legal Profession, Politics, Terrorism on February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dear Diary,
I am thrilled to have time to spend with you once more. I have been ‘under the cosh’ in recent weeks, due to the need to earn enough money to support what is, by common consent, a plain and unshowy lifestyle. However, one needs the spondulicks even for that. I am now able to [...]
Posted in Legal Profession on January 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It seems that the legal profession have staggered back from their Christmas break to a winter of discontent. One instinctively knows that apocalypse looms when both the Bar and the Police go on strike. Both prosecution and defence united in their stand against the Man. Curiouser and curioser. We only need criminals now to start [...]
Posted in Humour, Legal Profession, VM on January 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Dear Diary,
I am afraid that I am neglecting you and that this neglect will continue a little while longer. I am currently engaged in serious matters of State and am much exercised by them. At the end of a day it is all I can do to allow Tucker to rub me down and massage [...]
Posted in Legal Profession on January 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Following a brief sojourn to a Crown Court, Ruthie notices -post Jan 2nd- a new three tier heirachy of wig wearing emerging: the Bar, looking increasingly harrassed - Solicitor-Advocates with wigs and Solicitor-Advocates without wigs. It seems that by making the wig discretionary, a different form of discrimination has emerged. Rather like the blazer [...]
