Acutely aware that being a criminal legal aid lawyer can feel soul-destroying, the Criminal Law Solicitors’ Association injected humour into the agenda for its annual conference last week.
Before attendees (including Obiter) hit the lunch buffet, we were treated to half an hour of non-stop chuckles from cop-turned-stand-up Alfie Moore (pictured), who some may know from his BBC Radio 4 show It’s a Fair Cop.
Moore joked that he received an email from the practitioner group with a long list of issues that he should not joke about, such as race, gender, sex, sexual orientation and religion (basically, the nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act)… and magistrates’ sentencing powers.
Moore ended his set with a hypothetical scenario: you stop a car driving erratically; you can smell the alcohol as the driver winds down the window. The driver turns out to be your mother. Do you give her a lift home or make her take a breath test and take her down to the police station? Judging by the show of hands for each option, some audience members would be more scared of their mum than of losing their job.
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