This week’s Lawyer of the Week in The Times is Phillippa Kaufman. One of the questions The Times always asks is ‘What was your worst…
Imagine an enemy posse rushing towards you. They are dressed in bizarre and elaborate costumes, including papier mache horns, cardboard armour and joke-shop Dracula fangs.…
Finding what you want in a hurry is a large part of conducting a hearing in an orderly way. Having to keep pausing in the…
Quite a lot of material presented to tribunals is illegible. There are good reasons for this. Many documents produced out in the real world are…
Intensifiers are adverbs intended to strengthen adjectives. For example, writing ‘very unfair’ instead of ‘unfair’ should suggest that whatever you are referring to is more…
The point of a witness statement is to say what happened – to the best of the witness’s knowledge, and to the extent that what…
Most of us have words and phrases that we overuse. For example, I have a tendency to start sentences with ‘clearly’ when writing submissions: as…
Should you prepare a list of questions? This is a question on which reasonable people disagree. The argument is basically this. Those against say a…
Black. Or blue. Or dark purple, if you like. The only really important thing to avoid is using a light pastel colour, which will not…
This is a post mainly for law students volunteering for FRU, and others very early in their careers. Let’s assume you’re a brilliant lawyer. You…