As far as we can tell, the late Michael Jackson never had many dealings with the British legal establishment, but those he did were at the very top. Back in 2002, the Gazette grumbled that the then lord chancellor, Lord Irvine, was too busy to meet solicitors to discuss legal aid rates but found time to spend 30 minutes showing Jackson around the Palace of Westminster. Accompanying the King of Pop were ‘spoon-bender Uri Geller, magician David Blaine, and singer and celebrity Tory Patti Boulaye’. Quite what he made of them is anyone's guess, Obiter wrote at the time, ‘but solicitors will not be entirely surprised if it turns out that Lord Irvine has been taking advice on legal aid policy from Wacko Jacko for some years now’. Innocent days, innocent days.
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