Category Archives: trials

Looniest Judge *ever* Award: nice try - no pie, Peter.

April 19, 2008 – 9:41 am

Having also been on the wrong end of a major bollocking recently Geeklawyer has not a little sympathy for Mr Justice Peter Smith. Pete was referred to the Office for Naughty Judges (OJC) last year after showing “undoubted animosity” towards one of the parties in a case before him.
At least that’s the polite version. Geeklawyer […]

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Prosecutor tripped by unexpected court argument

March 15, 2008 – 11:41 am

The Sun reports that a trial in Reading descended into anarchy when the defendant, a pikey accused of a shooting, leapt from the dock and made a successful dash for freedom. In the process he bit a cop’s nose. He seems to have been helped by a friends who were waiting.
The funny bit that caught […]

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Pole dancing for the judge

March 14, 2008 – 10:55 pm

Geeklawyer was involved in a rather turgid IP trial in the High Court today. Patent infringement, design rights blah blah yawn etc.
Frankly it was all he could do to count the wadge of £50 notes he was being paid to say “No My Lord, that’s not right …” And he wasn’t doing very well. His […]

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Justice?

February 25, 2008 – 5:25 pm

However much Geeklawyer may whinge we do at least have some semblence of a system of fair trials. For those in Afghanistan the story is different: a 4 minute trial with no right to defend oneself or appeal followed by a death sentence.
Even sicko Blair wouldn’t have turned our justice system into this: but only […]

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