What on earth is going on out there? Is the Bar com­prised entirely of loonies? First Mr Dunn beat­ing the crap out of a wed­ding guest, law­fully it seems since he was — oddly — acquit­ted; and now it seems that media types turned bar­ris­ter are also going mad. This Mr Hyman char­ac­ter appears to be con­fus­ing the role of bar­ris­ter with that of TV Drama shady lawyer.

Mr Hyman is an ex-media star with an inter­est in colour­ful lawyer­ing, dri­ven by his TV back­ground in drama: this con­fu­sion seems to be a result of him fail­ing to absorb the true val­ues of the Bar as Mys­teryQC has elu­ci­dated.

Geeklawyer’s con­cern is not for Mr Hyman’s moral fail­ings but his prac­ti­cal ones. Surely if one goes to the Sleazy­jet Inter­net Cafe in Tot­ten­ham Court Road (And Geeklawyer imag­ines that this is the cafe con­cerned) he must have known he would be pho­tographed? There are any one of hun­dreds of cafes and pubs that would not have done so.

Geeklawyer’s pity is is more, as Wednes­day Addams would have it, that he was just sloppy: had Geeklawyer done it he would have got­ten away with it.