With all due respect to the striking legal aid Criminal solicitors and the Law Society, this is an impressive bunch of protesting lawyers. A reminder that the struggle between the rule of law and rule by decree is sometimes literally that.
I do find myself wondering if these are the scenes we’d see on Fleet Street, should Blair (or later Brown or Little Lord Fauntleroy) attempt to rid himself of the turbulent Lord Phillips (or, more furtively, shift executive discretion out of the purview of the Courts). Perhaps street protest, barricade building and countering baton charges should be a compulsory on the LPC. But tear gas plays havoc with the billable hours.
the blog. Let’s hope the entire blog can be retrieved, or, for the ISP’s sake, that they have a good team of lawyers… Happily, Charon QC has risen miraculously from the dead and is back on form this week, including not one but two podcasts. Lastly, Nearly Legal reminds us “that the struggle between the rule of law and rule by decree is sometimes literally that”, referring to recent events in Pakistan. Let’s hope we never have to find out whether us English lawyers would do the same in a similar situation.
