Another veteran Gazette reader, Barrington Black, gets the ball rolling in our collection of trainees’ Saturday job memories.
‘Saturday job? You mean Saturday jobs,’ he retorts. ‘In 1950 I was selling ice cream for Walls in summer, being a postman over Christmas, and changing the filing system for the new NHS at the hospital. Made more at these than being given £2 for personal service of writs and divorce petition, which was often quite precarious.’
I don’t think I ever encountered a professional alibi witness, but I certainly knew a man who was a professional mitigator.
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Litigation executive Darryl Barnes retires 44 years after first stepping through the doors at Leamington Spa firm Blythe, Owen George & Co.
Obiter was intrigued to read the minutes for last month’s SRA board meeting.
Final episode of US sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm plays out in a courtroom.
Courts fees increase, the race to the bar and illegitimate persons: a stroll down Gazette memory lane.
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