Not done a JR before. Boy was it a lot of work. I hadn’t read an administrative law book since university,
that was a week of client money, then all the adjectival stuff - another week - then a week reading papers.
Thank fuck I’m not the one paying.
The judgment is in.
Paul MacCartney paid £24.3 million rather than the £15.8 million he wanted to pay Mills: i.e. 6.5% over his claim. The golddigger wanted £125 million (”it’s nothing to do with the money”) & so got 87% less than she wanted.
By Geeklawyer’s (corrected, *blush*) calculations McCartney won 13 to one. Even so, that […]
January 26, 2008 – 2:27 am
Geeklawyer is a bit of a slacker it’s true. But he suddenly looked up at the clock to realise it was 2.30am and there he was writing both a skeleton and a snotty note to the judge. Blimey.
In his mitigation he had spent the evening chatting up young totty at the local university. Though he […]
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 […]
January 21, 2008 – 9:03 pm
Let us be clear on this. Rugby is the only game for gentlemen to play. Well, OK, Rugby Union: Rugby League is a clever tool for gentrifying Tucker over a period of decades and for distracting him from the perilous dangers of football fandom. Football is a game for morons: those who enjoy watching it […]
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January 4, 2008 – 5:29 pm
Geeklawyer has always regarded marriage as an amusing childrens game played with expensive lawyers (well, not really expensive by comparison with Geeklawyer’s offensive over-billing, but you take the point).
Of course some things aren’t a proper part of the game: boys toys specifically, oh no.
But when Neil Medley decided he’d got better things to do with […]
December 21, 2007 – 12:45 am
Geeklawyer was rung up at home by a High Court judge a while ago. It was a profoundly unnerving experience. He had just got out of the bath and was naked, not being accustomed to bathing with any clothes on. The phone rang:
“Mr [Geeklawyer], this is Justice [scary] I wanted to ask about your Public […]
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 […]
December 3, 2007 – 12:35 am
As mentioned previously Geeklawyer did a bit of minor criminal work recently: a bail application before a Crown Court judge. It was interesting to see how the other half live. The robing room was a pit of miserable despair; Legal aid barristers with 6 o’clock shadows (including some females) hovered around in threadbare suits several […]
November 15, 2007 – 4:29 pm
Family Lore reports that Mr Justice Singer was just ordered to step down form a case for making a few poor jokes. In the matter of El Farargy v El Farargy and Others he made a couple of faintly amusing quips about using a “flying carpet” to avoid/evade costs and poor quality gelatinous evidence that […]
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