The Barrister Bard

More depressing statistics hit the headlines. We are told that children of drug addicted parents, single or otherwise, are taking drugs when they’re barely into their teenage years. Kids of ten and eleven, and sometimes even younger, are dabbling with cannabis and alcohol as a precursor to harder drugs such as heroin and cocaine.
I have […]

Who would have thought it? Certainly not me, living as I do in the real world of bad or inadequate parenting, failing schools, lack of discipline, lack of self esteem, lack of self motivation, and a total lack of a work ethic. So when these products of a failed social system go off […]

There are times I despair of the European Court of Human Rights. Actually, that’s not what I mean. There are times I despair of the arguments used by so called Human Rights lawyers in this country and elsewhere, at great public expense, to persuade the Court of the wisdom of their argument which, to the […]

When the Almighty created Adam and Eve, in His infinite wisdom He built in the necessary procreative tools to ensure there would be lots of little Adams, Darrens, Evitas and Traceys frolicking through the Garden of Eden, all living the life of Riley till Kingdom come. Of course, as we well know, the serpent […]

So it’s official – the lunatics are running the asylum! I refer, of course, to the news that unqualified Crown Prosecution Service “paralegals” are now to be entrusted with the conduct of summary trials in Magistrates Courts, as well as the more routine applications and guilty pleas in low grade crime.
To those of us toiling […]