A clean break
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. Jean Kerr
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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. Jean Kerr
DetailsYour family court judge and your ex-mother-in-law are trapped in a burning building. You have time to save only one of them. Do you have lunch or go to a movie?
Tim Minchin again. The new Dudley Moore & Tom Lehrer rolled into one.
DetailsNo doubt a number of pupils were secretly rather relieved when the identity of the author of the Time’s Baby Barista blog was finally revealed in the Times to be Tim Kevan so that the finger of suspicion was no longer pointing at them. I have long been a fan of the blog describing its…
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Fantastic books to read: Anything by Henry Cecil such as Brothers in Law, Daughters in Law, Fathers in Law and pretty much anything else he wrote. Henry Cecil was a Judge in the County Court many many years ago: his books have an old-world charm but help anyone to understand the social ins and outs…
DetailsDenny Crane’s handsome sidekick Alan Shore, played by James Spader. “Let me tell me two things about myself. I too am a lawyer, I can be painfully vindictive, and I do not play fair”. My role model.
DetailsMy current legal hero, Denny Crane whose motto is :”pull a rabbit out of your hat. That’s the secret both to trial law and life.” I could have done with that rabbit today. Mr Blog and I are working our way through the first series on dvd & he is back from his travels tonight…
DetailsThanks to those who have suggested words for my recent missing words thing on obnoxious opponents and think crowisfaction pretty grand. But there is a small variation. Opponent who turns up thinking that because Judge took understandable dim view of your client’s behaviour in the past s/he willl take same dim view even though life…
DetailsAnd another hero: Gill Grissom“There’s three things I got a real problem with: Guys that hit their wives, sexual assault on children and the scum that deal death to kids.” The CSI website has its own wiki.
DetailsA man and his wife were in the throes of breaking up and arguing about the divorce settlement. In a fit of pique the man thew trifle at his wife. That’s how she ended up with custardy.
DetailsFamily Law Judge to Mother: Do you understand that you have sworn to tell the truth? Mother: I do. Judge: Do you understand what will happen if you are not truthful? Mother: Sure. I get everything I want.
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