Category Archives: Advocacy Catastrophy

Blimey - the judge has me on speed dial?

January 24, 2008 – 9:02 pm

You may remember Geeklawyer’s post about being phoned up by the judge. Well, bugger me if it didn’t happen again. This time Geeklawyer wasn’t in chambers to take the call nor was he in the bath - that activity is over till next year - but when he returned a rather anxious head of chambers […]

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Geeklawyer just got arse raped in court

December 3, 2007 – 3:54 pm

And no he didn’t enjoy it.
The trouble with clients is that the more stupid they are the less inclined they are to listen to good advice. Newsflash: throwing money at lawyers doesn’t guarantee you a win if you are an arse-hat.
Geeklawyer had to contend with bad facts and adverse law so he knew what was […]

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Spooky Judges

July 29, 2007 – 2:37 pm

Geeklawyer was in court last week. And he had handed up a skeleton argument to the judge that was of a mildly humorous tone, and he really does mean mildly; it was no blog post. He was fortified by the fact that it was the litigant in person who was speaking not himself (complex - […]

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