Mark Saunders, a family law/divorce barrister it seems, was killed in a shoot out with armed police in London. It all happened near Geeklawyer’s old flat in the Kings Road as it happens, nice area but if there is much more gun-play people will presumably migrate to somewhere less dangerous; Peckham, say.
It seems that […]
Ruthie was, as many were aware, recently pretending to be junior counsel in a multi-million pound criminal trial that Geeklawyer visited as it was drawing to its inevitable conclusion. In fact it nearly drew to a conclusion more rapidly as a result of Geeklawyer’s friendly visit.
Geeklawyer had merely intended to show up, provide Ruthie with […]
Geeklawyer has decided to retrain as a solicitor advocate. It is a bit depressing to make that admission given the amount of pisstaking he has done of Ruthie, and she will, no doubt, grind your author’s nose in it.
It was a hard decision prompted by yesterdays news of a 20% drop in pupillages. To Geeklawyer […]
February 21, 2008 – 5:22 pm
Lawcareers.net has described Geeklawyer as ubiquitous. Geeklawyer had always thought omnipotent was better. It ponders that he must not get much work done. Had he not known better he’d would have sworn that that line was written by my failed co-blogger. In fact nothing could be further from the truth. Geeklawyer works massively fast - […]
February 12, 2008 – 5:50 pm
For those not familiar with the arcana of the Bar a ’squat’ is the name given to the chambers from which a barrister operates when he is without a tenancy. Connoting nothing illegal one may think of it as a sort of purgatory, but lasting longer and less well paid.
January 21, 2008 – 10:47 am
Geeklawyer fully supports his criminal colleagues in refusing to sign their new legal aid contracts. Respect to Simon Myerson and all the others.
Question: does this mean that unrepresented defendants could potentially have their cases dismissed for lack a lawyer? Bad very bad. But presumably all these cases will be adjourned until the mess is sorted […]
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 8, 2007 – 8:43 pm
Geeklawyer did think the sight of Pakistani lawyers trading blows with paramilitary police was a little weird. All credit to them. They live in an exceedingly fragile democracy where a vacuous despot ignores the rule of law, the constitution and appoints judges who do his bidding (you decide whether I mean Bush or Musharraf). So […]
November 26, 2007 – 9:07 pm
Geeklawyer received the following tearful missive from a prospective entrant to the Bar.
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I read the news today about Blackstones’ senior Clerk quitting today with absolute incredulity, not because of his circumstances (obviously) but because I learned in the same article that Blackstone were hiring out their rookies at £150 a day. For fucks sake, […]
October 2, 2007 – 3:28 pm
In the aftermath of the knob-head Bruce Hymen matter it was a little hard for us to maintain the presentation that the Bar was a litigation priesthood of unimpeachable morals. Visible public humiliation of professionals - the modern fashion for transparency, aka Tabloid Food - was inevitable.
Nonetheless, the implementation seems a bid odd. Minor stuff […]
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