Hot on the heels of announc­ing our engage­ment comes less joy­ous news.
Geeklawyer is hav­ing to end writ­ing on the blog. This has been neces­si­tated as part of pre­vi­ously secret nego­ti­a­tions with the Bar Coun­cil who are upset at the image of the Bar por­trayed by it.

It wasn’t helped by Geeklawyer’s occa­sional mock­ing of their tech­no­log­i­cal inept­ness: unfor­tu­nately it seems that they knew how to use the Intar­web and were watch­ing all along. Quite how they found the semi-anonymous author is unknown, but they have. Geeklawyer has been threat­ened with dis­ci­pli­nary pro­ceed­ings and “cer­tain dis­bar­ment” unless he ter­mi­nates the blog. An agree­ment was reached whereby he might hand it over to more respon­si­ble lawyers.

In part­ing Geeklawyer had to decide whether to reveal his real iden­tity or not.

Not.

The hope is that he will become a liv­ing leg­end at the Bar. A story hinted at darkly by pupil­mas­ters cau­tion­ing their pupils; whis­pered tales in the mem­bers bar at Lincoln’s Inn. And one day encour­aged by his exam­ple they will rise up and storm the gates of the Bar Coun­cil and place the coun­cil mem­bers sev­ered heads upon staves out­side the High Court in the Strand.

Geeklawyer will now sur­ren­der the blog to Ruthie. Expect more tedious sto­ries about glass ceil­ings for women, girly rugby, why over­weight women deserve respect and how awful the pro­fes­sion is to women.