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One reader asks whether Yaxley-Lennon actually paid Kingsley Napley. In his witness statement, he says: "I privately paid for training with one of London's leading law firms..."

Another reader questions whether Yaxley-Lennon referred to charges that had not been proceeded with. This was what the Court of Appeal said (paragraph 17). Angus McCullough QC adds these were charges of which the jury were not aware (amended submissions, paragraph 14 (iii)).

A third reader says my use of the word "guilt" is misleading because contempt is not a crime. I can see it would have been better, though repetitious, to have said that he admitted his "contempt".