Archive for June, 2010
Tempus fugit
We had a chambers meeting today and the funniest thing happened â there was a watch off. It happened like a kind of ostentatious Mexican wave which started with TheCreep producing his brand-spanking new Tag Heuer watch and planting it down on the conference table in front of him so that, as he mumbled in […]
June 30, 2010
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Short skirts and long looks
HeadofChambers was in pensive mood today and in his most judicial tones, he commented on TheVampâs dress in the following way as she came into tea: âIs it just me or are skirts getting shorter these days?â âYes, and menâs looks are getting longer,â replied TheVamp. âParticularly a rather well known circuit judge I could mention,â […]
June 28, 2010
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Monday morning with Alex Williams’ cartoons
I’m really delighted and honoured that my favourite cartoonist and good friend Alex Williams has agreed to publish one of his cartoons on this blog each week. Whilst he is now a hotshot Hollywood animator he also qualified as a barrister in his youth and this led him to draw the Queen’s Counsel cartoons both for The Times […]
June 28, 2010
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Response to Matt Muttleyâs instructions
I asked OldSmoothie how he thought I should answer the instructions which came in last week from Matt Muttley over at the blog of my good friend Charon QC. “What? That double-dealing little reptile who struts around the high court as if he owns the place? I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could […]
June 27, 2010
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Court closures and toe-rags
Much discussion at chambers tea today about the new coalition governmentâs consultation document on which courts they intend to close. âIâm glad to see Ilfordâs on the list,â said OldSmoothie. âThereâs never a good way of getting to that court and then even when you arrive, wellâŚâ Knowing looks were shared and then BusyBody added […]
June 23, 2010
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MockingBird
I met up with Claire over the weekend and another junior member of her own chambers who I can only call MockingBird. You see sheâs as brassy a Northerner as youâre ever likely to meet and calls all men âladsâ and ladies âbirdsâ. She makes a point of only drinking pints of beer and is […]
June 21, 2010
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Bring back sleaze…
OldSmoothie was being particularly indiscreet today at chambers tea today as he regaled everyone with the details of BigMouthâs confession. âHearing heart-warming stories like that gives me an almost nostalgic feeling that everything in the world is back to how it should be,â said HeadofChambers. âWhat, where politicians are sleazy?â said TheBusker. âAnd lawyers greedy?â […]
June 18, 2010
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Moldies update
People have been asking whatâs been going on with the Moldy litigation in which a bunch of self-styled âmad oldiesâ or Moldies are suing a wireless company for injuries they say was caused by their technology. The Moldies have made it clear they want to settle but the other side have so far shown no […]
June 17, 2010
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Conflicts of interest
OldSmoothie’s friend BigMouth somehow managed to survive the electorate and remains a Tory MP albeit, like an old piece of chewing gum, forever stuck to the backbenches. Yesterday he was in chambers looking for a little assistance and OldSmoothie brought me into the conference to take notes. “Two of my constituents lost their entire life […]
June 16, 2010
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LibertyBelle
Much chatter in chambers today with the arrival of a new tenant in the form of LibertyBelle. Sheâs a couple of years call and has been taken on from a criminal set of chambers where sheâd dreamt of defending peopleâs civil liberties but found that the clerks were simply sending her on the road traffic […]
June 15, 2010
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