Category Archives: MysteryQC

Always put your knickers on in court

September 30, 2007 – 8:01 pm

Readers will recall Ruthie, Geeklawyer’s ejected co-blogger who shuffled off tearfully to run a little read blog called Ruthieslaw. Ruthie is taking part in a 6 week trial at a crown court where she will be carrying the bags of a proper lawyer, a barrister not a solicitor-inadequate, into court.
Not terribly demanding one might think […]

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Random fire

August 17, 2007 – 8:42 pm

So, the summer time is upon us. And lawyers are looking to cast aside their professional cares in favour of frippery sand and spades. Geeklawyer should be attending a geeky event in Crete: hacking and Plato. Bliss. However his devotion to his clients needs may mean this goes by the way.
Not so Simon Myerson QC […]

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What do they put in the afternoon tea, oop North?

August 14, 2007 – 7:24 pm

The Bar is often regarded, as Geeklawyer has observed before, by the public as a public school playground. Smug, self satisfied and aloof. Fortunately only the proles think that, so it hardly matters. But if it were a bad thing our Northern colleagues are doing their bit to etch away this image of the Bar.
And […]

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Embarrassing groveling sycophancy

July 20, 2007 – 6:33 pm

It is always embarrassing isn’t it? the uncritical unqualified eye-fluttering praise, offending the dignity not just of the praisor but the praisee and all the sickened witnesses.
Sadly Geeklawyer is one such (although not alone) praisor. If you haven’t read MysteryQC’s posts on Ruthieslaw you really really must. Geeklawyer confesses that he started the MysteryQC fan […]

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MysteryQC fan club

July 17, 2007 – 3:40 pm

Geeklawyer is calm.
And he is starting the MysteryQC Fan club. For no real reason other than to annoy Ruthie. There, he’s said it; it’s all about revenge, spiteful little man. MysteryQC is also jolly good which helps - in fact he’s better than Ruthie by some margin.
Mind you, so is his hamster.

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