03 7 / 2012

"First you get puking and mewling,
Then very pissed off with your schooling,
Then fucks and then fights,
Then judging chaps’ rights,
Then sitting in slippers, then drooling."

Robert Conquest

11 6 / 2012

"In a hectic legal jungle,
Where wheely bags trundle,
New pupils, take heed:
What will increase your speed
Is a well-tabbed, paginated bundle"

06 6 / 2012

"When representing a thief
His intentions may shake like a leaf
If he changes his plea
To one of guilty
Just make sure you endorse the brief"

05 6 / 2012

"Bugger,the barrister thought
In 4 days off work I’ve done naught
It’s gone by so quick
Now I’m in the shit
As tomorrow I’ll be back in court"

01 6 / 2012

"Two judges couldn’t agree
So they are set to be three
Hopefully not to resile
In the #TwitterJokeTrial
From principles keeping speech free"

01 6 / 2012

"Psychos and alcoholics
Counsel engaging in frolics
But why is #Silk poor?
Because it ignores law?
Or the fact that the advocacy’s bollocks!"

01 6 / 2012

"Oh really what is the use!”
Said the lad (his face turning puce)
“I can’t work any faster
For my pupilmaster
It’s frankly just pupil abuse"

01 6 / 2012

"Reaching Friday with glee
The prospect of 4 days off free
But Counsel was glum
To realisation he’d come
That no court meant getting no fee"

01 6 / 2012

"Interviews can be a bit hairy,
Barristers can be frankly scary,
But the #pupillage process,
Is rather a mess
In the end it’s quite arbitrary"

01 6 / 2012

"A clerk with sadistic bent
To faraway courts often sent
Barristers out of favour
Are often heard to quaver
Where the fuck’s Stoke on Trent?!"