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{{a|work|}}Senior, brainy, court lawyers. The [[JC]] is lucky enough to know a few, largely because he shares with them a fondness for [[cricket]]. They are excellent men and women, to a one, but they engage in a part of the legal process of which the [[JC]] is constitutionally committed to steering as clear as he can: [[litigation]]. Not just because suing and being sued is hard, gives you a tension headache and is beset with fiddly, procedural bear traps, but because the road is strewn with absurd conventions, unarticulated rules of etiquette, and unspoken ways of behaving that you have to get ''[[Substance and form|formally]]''; right, hang whether you were right [[Substance and form|in ''substance'']]. That’s not just how the [[JC]] rolls. | {{a|work| | ||
[[File:Jolly contrarian.png|450px|thumb|center|A Queen’s Counsel — {{jerrold}}, to be precise — yesterday. ]] | |||
}}Senior, brainy, court lawyers. The [[JC]] is lucky enough to know a few, largely because he shares with them a fondness for [[cricket]]. They are excellent men and women, to a one, but they engage in a part of the legal process of which the [[JC]] is constitutionally committed to steering as clear as he can: [[litigation]]. Not just because suing and being sued is hard, gives you a tension headache and is beset with fiddly, procedural bear traps, but because the road is strewn with absurd conventions, unarticulated rules of etiquette, and unspoken ways of behaving that you have to get ''[[Substance and form|formally]]''; right, hang whether you were right [[Substance and form|in ''substance'']]. That’s not just how the [[JC]] rolls. | |||
In legal practice, court lawyering is ''golf'' you see, and the [[JC]] is a ''cricket'' kind of fellow. | In legal practice, court lawyering is ''golf'' you see, and the [[JC]] is a ''cricket'' kind of fellow. | ||