Wow, doesn't time fly...I feel like me Mum....using words she uses and used to make me frown, worst yet, is that i drone on a bit at times like me Dad!...I digress...well from Lastminute.com to ...well you guessed it Lastminute.com with a difference; the difference being I am not as late this month as I was last month in getting myself organised and prepared. Why come? Well I don't want to do my current job for ever and I've done loads of shitty ones already and I really like talking, and talking and fighting verbal arguments...have always been like it..."But Mum, you said 'x', so how could that then be 'y'" (swipe) "don't answer back" OKAY THEN...
Right what do I really want to say..hmmm..well.. I have had a few comments that I was not expecting really, but am happy to have received. Thanks, will endear me to post more often. (will also note password as keep forgetting it and then forgetting the "hint" I made up)
Well since the last blog, it has been more of the same. Work, Study a little bit of play and not a lot of life. I did have a birthday, that was good, but I felt a bit guilty...Skellie anyone!
Since the last post I have been examined and assessed. One more to go, Advocacy on the last teaching Saturday in June...We have been asked to submit a skeleton argument...the issue is contractual and involves a French artist who has been commissioned to redecorate a hotel foyer...the issue has been lost in translation...I am a tad worried as this seems to good to be true. We have already had a skeleton argument on the same topic, interim payment and now we are back again. Follow the structure provided and I should be OK. I took a lesson from one of the previous study group sessions I had, where I all had to submit a reason why my client should receive an interim payment. Many of us thought well why not think of an figure out of the air, as long as it is less than the actual amount denied by the other party we should be OK. WRONG..Computer says "NAH" ...So this time, I will be submitting in my skeleton argument that the claimant should defo get the amount of money he had already dished out prior to the interim payment issue coming to court........as long as I agree there is a contract, but there would have to be or this would all be pants wouldn't it.......this makes perfect sense now, didn't at the time.....I am better at judicial intervention than the planning part, but I am getting much better and this has been noticed by those that need to notice it, so I'm good...for now!
So..this Saturday I will take a train, no doubt at 6am to get to my provider for 9am. Sat should be a good day for shopping, if I had any money left....(simply Red's 'money's too tight to mention' has just sprung up in my tired brain and now won't go away..."Oh Money, money, money, money, money....drum beat") I would go shopping in the city centre and spend it, but I'm broke as a joke but still breathing so feel lucky. So I am sure I will have to spend the majority of Sat pm window gazing at all the things I will be able to do when I am a Criminal Defence Barrister for a set of Chambers that is looking for a HUMAN BEING, not a statistic.....I want to be a Barrister who is able to communicate with her clients.....I want to be a Criminal defence Barrister...BUT I want to have a life, or at least half a life..but how does one do that with the current problems of the independent bar....one of our tutors on the BVC is a family law practitioner, even she advises caution before entering the profession (tell me that after I've paid you a million quid, loosely veiled as tuition fees) due to the overall changes at the Bar as well as the lack of funding now being made available. I would do PI, but having just managed to get an Interim payment (something I do know a little more about now) from a well known insurer, it seems a lot like paper pushing....Commercial is out for me, my Uni didn't have an "Ox" a "bridge" or a "cambs" in it....I am of childbearing age, green coloured and covered with blisters....kidding, I am human and just want to do a job I can love, will learn from continually and I know I will love it. I feel at home in a court house... I used to take annual leave and sit in court houses, the best in London of course...Wood Green for a guaranteed punch up, Old Bailey to get on the telly (even if its just your back, or a flick of hair..you will know) RCJ for its sheer beauty, Inner London and Southwark for good cases and crappy canteen, the former has half one of it's buildings as it should be, old and aged, the other half is new and F-ugly..who designed that? Southwark reminds me of watching court cases on the telly when I was a kid, love the receptionist, always with magazine in her hand (cheapo ones with sex and sleaze emblazoned on the front) I like Blackfriars in its idly tidly way, seems like it was the court that was slapped on the road without much thought, and its a bit of a Bitch to get to.
Croydon Crown Court is something else, slightly old in its ways, but has good cases held at Croydon, Kingston Crown Court is where you go if you want a really old jury (armed robber, attacked defenceless old lady, grabs loot and is off out the door, quicker than you can say "credit crunch" CCTV available and clearly shows robber, but jury think it wasn't 'im, cos he looks so charming and sweet...) and send em to Snaresbrook if you want the defendant to get off, walk off, jog off, swim off even or run off out into the beautiful grounds (why are there really big SWANS at Snaresbrook?) Snaresbrook reminds of Tottenham Police Station....lax and always got something (else) to do.....Once, I went to see a defendant in his cell and a mobile rang..it wasn't mine...didn't feel like a snitch with when I told the Sarg, he could have had anything, a bottle of wine or he could have smuggled a load of old exam papers in with him, anything.....
Had to see one of my clients today...FRAUDSTER, he is lying through his teeth.....I have enough evidence to prosecute, but I suspect his barrister will source sufficient mitigation for him...due to BPP, I have, in my head...(it thinks like a barrister, looks like one when suited and booted, gimme pupillage)........and slowly the books and the BPP and the study and the panic and the lastminute.com, comes together....
Sleep now goldilocks cos you have exhibit labels to prepare in the am as well as lots of work, oh yeah, and complete my skelli...luckily for me, the last team meeting I was in at WORK was so boring I hand wrote my skellie and added points in the hour it took for my boss, Peggy Mitchell to bore me senseless! (She really does remind me of Peggy Mitchell- bless her, maybe not!)
Right what do I really want to say..hmmm..well.. I have had a few comments that I was not expecting really, but am happy to have received. Thanks, will endear me to post more often. (will also note password as keep forgetting it and then forgetting the "hint" I made up)
Well since the last blog, it has been more of the same. Work, Study a little bit of play and not a lot of life. I did have a birthday, that was good, but I felt a bit guilty...Skellie anyone!
Since the last post I have been examined and assessed. One more to go, Advocacy on the last teaching Saturday in June...We have been asked to submit a skeleton argument...the issue is contractual and involves a French artist who has been commissioned to redecorate a hotel foyer...the issue has been lost in translation...I am a tad worried as this seems to good to be true. We have already had a skeleton argument on the same topic, interim payment and now we are back again. Follow the structure provided and I should be OK. I took a lesson from one of the previous study group sessions I had, where I all had to submit a reason why my client should receive an interim payment. Many of us thought well why not think of an figure out of the air, as long as it is less than the actual amount denied by the other party we should be OK. WRONG..Computer says "NAH" ...So this time, I will be submitting in my skeleton argument that the claimant should defo get the amount of money he had already dished out prior to the interim payment issue coming to court........as long as I agree there is a contract, but there would have to be or this would all be pants wouldn't it.......this makes perfect sense now, didn't at the time.....I am better at judicial intervention than the planning part, but I am getting much better and this has been noticed by those that need to notice it, so I'm good...for now!
So..this Saturday I will take a train, no doubt at 6am to get to my provider for 9am. Sat should be a good day for shopping, if I had any money left....(simply Red's 'money's too tight to mention' has just sprung up in my tired brain and now won't go away..."Oh Money, money, money, money, money....drum beat") I would go shopping in the city centre and spend it, but I'm broke as a joke but still breathing so feel lucky. So I am sure I will have to spend the majority of Sat pm window gazing at all the things I will be able to do when I am a Criminal Defence Barrister for a set of Chambers that is looking for a HUMAN BEING, not a statistic.....I want to be a Barrister who is able to communicate with her clients.....I want to be a Criminal defence Barrister...BUT I want to have a life, or at least half a life..but how does one do that with the current problems of the independent bar....one of our tutors on the BVC is a family law practitioner, even she advises caution before entering the profession (tell me that after I've paid you a million quid, loosely veiled as tuition fees) due to the overall changes at the Bar as well as the lack of funding now being made available. I would do PI, but having just managed to get an Interim payment (something I do know a little more about now) from a well known insurer, it seems a lot like paper pushing....Commercial is out for me, my Uni didn't have an "Ox" a "bridge" or a "cambs" in it....I am of childbearing age, green coloured and covered with blisters....kidding, I am human and just want to do a job I can love, will learn from continually and I know I will love it. I feel at home in a court house... I used to take annual leave and sit in court houses, the best in London of course...Wood Green for a guaranteed punch up, Old Bailey to get on the telly (even if its just your back, or a flick of hair..you will know) RCJ for its sheer beauty, Inner London and Southwark for good cases and crappy canteen, the former has half one of it's buildings as it should be, old and aged, the other half is new and F-ugly..who designed that? Southwark reminds me of watching court cases on the telly when I was a kid, love the receptionist, always with magazine in her hand (cheapo ones with sex and sleaze emblazoned on the front) I like Blackfriars in its idly tidly way, seems like it was the court that was slapped on the road without much thought, and its a bit of a Bitch to get to.
Croydon Crown Court is something else, slightly old in its ways, but has good cases held at Croydon, Kingston Crown Court is where you go if you want a really old jury (armed robber, attacked defenceless old lady, grabs loot and is off out the door, quicker than you can say "credit crunch" CCTV available and clearly shows robber, but jury think it wasn't 'im, cos he looks so charming and sweet...) and send em to Snaresbrook if you want the defendant to get off, walk off, jog off, swim off even or run off out into the beautiful grounds (why are there really big SWANS at Snaresbrook?) Snaresbrook reminds of Tottenham Police Station....lax and always got something (else) to do.....Once, I went to see a defendant in his cell and a mobile rang..it wasn't mine...didn't feel like a snitch with when I told the Sarg, he could have had anything, a bottle of wine or he could have smuggled a load of old exam papers in with him, anything.....
Had to see one of my clients today...FRAUDSTER, he is lying through his teeth.....I have enough evidence to prosecute, but I suspect his barrister will source sufficient mitigation for him...due to BPP, I have, in my head...(it thinks like a barrister, looks like one when suited and booted, gimme pupillage)........and slowly the books and the BPP and the study and the panic and the lastminute.com, comes together....
Sleep now goldilocks cos you have exhibit labels to prepare in the am as well as lots of work, oh yeah, and complete my skelli...luckily for me, the last team meeting I was in at WORK was so boring I hand wrote my skellie and added points in the hour it took for my boss, Peggy Mitchell to bore me senseless! (She really does remind me of Peggy Mitchell- bless her, maybe not!)
