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Do barristers need a chambers?

I read an article in Solicitors Journal titled – Do we need barrister’s chambers? The piece is by Adam Makepeace who is the practice manager of Tuckers one of the countries largest criminal firms of...

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You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy – Institute of...

Getting up at 5-00am on a Saturday morning to make my way to Leeds didn’t seem like too much of a problem. I had however forgotten the 3 or 4 large single malts I had decided to sink the night before....

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Christmas eve in the clerks’ room

I wrote this post for the CAM magazine. Please feel free to download it and any other editions that take your fancy www.cam.uk.com The incessant tapping of the rain on the window was about half a beat...

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The joy of dogs

I found myself in a rather embarrassing situation this morning. A situation entirely brought about by my dogs. However before I describe this unusual series of events I ought first to set the stage....

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Becoming a barrister’s clerk

This is one of a series of articles I wrote for Jordan’s Family Law and is reproduced here with their kind permission (the original can be found here) ‘This is a brief,’ he said, indicating the tatty...

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We are family

This is one of a series of articles I wrote for Jordan’s Family Law and is reproduced here with their kind permission. (The original can be found here) ‘Take this brief to Bill, then nip to Trev as...

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My first listing meeting

This is one of a series of articles I wrote for Jordan’s Family Law and is reproduced here with their kind permission. (The original can be found here) ‘Get yer jacket on, you’re off to the chancery...

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All you needed to know about criminal listings but were afraid to ask – Part 1

This is one of a series of articles I wrote for Jordan’s Family Law and is reproduced here with their kind permission. (The original can be found here) ‘Look, it’s easy – JPS has to do the sentence...

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All you needed to know about criminal listings but were afraid to ask – Part 2

This is one of a series of articles I wrote for Jordan’s Family Law and is reproduced here with their kind permission. (The original can be found here) Cue Dick Barton music… When last we saw our...

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People are strange, when you’re a clerk

This is one of a series of articles I wrote for Jordan’s Family Law and is reproduced here with their kind permission. (The original can be found here) In the whimsical meanderings of my previous posts...

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