Rumpole Jnr
Hi, I'm a trainee solicitor at the busiest criminal practice in Berkshire. After two years of paralegaling, blood, sweat and tears, I've embarked on my final step to becoming a qualified criminal solicitor in 2013. I hope that my previous blogs showed life as a paralegal, that the coming ones show life as a trainee, and if indeed there's a difference. Here's to 18 months and counting...
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It’s a fact; the police and the criminal justice system are becoming increasingly involved in sport.
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As a criminal lawyer, you hope that you never have a friend or family member fall afoul of the criminal justice system, as you know how crooked and unfair it can be.
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After speaking to experienced solicitors with with dozens of war stories and countless tales of winning against the odds due to overwhelming evidence and prosecution-minded judges, I’ve made a list of the 10 things that a criminal lawyer will or must do in their career.
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On 5 August 2011, my client Mr Holmes had been charged and remanded into custody for a number of offences.
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In the course of working in criminal defence, you cannot please everyone.
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I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be a witness and give evidence at a trial. It almost became a reality last week.
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Having read the Gazette and my fellow blogger Hummingbird's recent piece, there seems to be yet another debate over trainee salaries.
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Over the last six months, there were two very important and prominent murder trials.
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It’s the time when people make resolutions for the up-and-coming year.
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As a trainee solicitor, I’m not able to represent clients at court. My trials come in the form of a police station interview, where my not-guilty verdicts come in the form of no further action (NFA).
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In terms of criminal defence, the truth is that barristers need solicitors more than solicitors need barristers.
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I’ve represented hundreds of clients at the police station who have been arrested for a number of different offences. From the strange and bizarre, to the nasty and downright evil. I thought I'd seen it all until a few weeks ago.
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Due to how busy my firm is (I’ve been told that we’re the busiest criminal law firm in Berkshire), it’s not very often that I see the boss. If I do it’s usually in the morning, before the office opens.
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As with most professions, you get some people who are good at their job and some who are not.
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I went on a criminal law update course organised by the fantastic and knowledgeable Andrew Keogh a few weeks ago. It was the first course/lecture I’ve been on since completing the LPC in May 2009.
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In the world of criminal law, you soon realise that anyone can run afoul of the law and get arrested.
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As a paralegal, or, as we are now called, criminal caseworker, I have been lucky enough to have been treated as if I were a trainee solicitor at the firms I have worked at.
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Whether at the office, court or police station, I always seem to be kept waiting, and there are only so many times that you can play solitaire on your Blackberry before you get bored.
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My phone started ringing and vibrating uncontrollably, and was so loud that I was sure the whole apartment block could hear it. I immediately reacted with a groan, as I squinted at my alarm clock. It read 12:56am.
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When I started my legal career back in August 2009, I had just come from completing the LPC and had no idea of how the real world actually worked.
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Friends who do not know much about my job, other than that I defend criminals(!), sometimes ask me what, for a lawyer, is a typical day?
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Saturday 11th June 2011 at 11:15am, in some public house in Matthew Street, Liverpool, the Kangaroo Court reconvened after a number of years of silence.
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Hi everyone, and thanks for checking out my first post. Before I embark on a fly-on-the-wall type documentary of life in legal aid, here's a brief overview of my career so far.
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