2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 74: [I]t is impossible for me to post a tweet or write a blog about any legal issue without my being informed [...] that I and all those like me are ambulance-chasing vermin.at ambulance-chasing (n.) under ambulance-chaser, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 120: [C]ertainly [...] there is scope for abuse by employees chancing their arm.at chance one’s arm (v.) under arm, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 278: [T]he corrosive belief that judges ought to be, and can be, got at.at get at, v.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 161: [A]ll justice requires is to draw a dividing line between goodies and baddies.at baddie, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 121: Genuinely hopeless claims can be booted out by a tribunal at a very early stage.at boot out (v.) under boot, v.1
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 243: [She] had seen how successfully her forebears and contemporaries had navigated difficult legal cases by casually tossing the rule of law under a bus.at throw (someone/something) under the bus (v.) under bus, n.2
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 102: [W]e tut about compo windfalls instead of pausing to ask, Why am I being encouraged to resent a disabled child the cost of her care?at compo, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 167: [I]f [...] the individual has [a] fair a crack of the whip [...] equality of arms will require that they have a lawyer to represent them in court.at fair crack of the whip, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 59: [T]he application was [...] ‘entirely misconceived’. [...] Nevertheless, this duff legal application did not shrivel and expire on the courtroom floor.at duff, adj.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 268: [S][he was simply riffing on a theme composed and turned up to eleven by the preceding Labour Government.at eleven, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 274: [S]ticking a parliamentary finger up to the independent judiciary.at finger, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 273: Constituency MPs making hay over ‘soft judges’ passing insufficiently punitive sentences [...] is a common theme. One frequent flyer is Philip Davies MP.at frequent flyer, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 276: [W]e see emboldened newspapers brazenly attempting to influence criminal proceedings. The Sun has particular form.at form, n.1
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 254: [A] time when the Home Secretary was greasing the red tops in anticipation of a run at the party leadership.at grease, v.1
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 104: [A]sking a female interviewee when she plans to start a family is very much the sort of thing that can get you in legal hot water.at hot water, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 240: As Mr Cable said, ‘the only issue is what is practical’. Principle didn’t get a look-in.at look-in, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 284: However sensationally juicy such tale[i.e. of alien abductions] might appear, editors and reporters understand the absurdity.at juicy, adj.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 235: We are content to live in a society [...] [w]here defence lawyers are monstered as accessories to their clients’ alleged crimes.at monster, v.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 256: [O]ver 17.4 million voters [...] expressed their desire to leave the EU, pipping the 16.1 million by 51.89 per cent to 48.11 per cent.at pip, v.1
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 103: [O]ur ability to provide for ourselves and our loved ones [...] relies on our being able to punch a clock each day.at punch the clock (v.) under punch, v.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 254: [A] time when the Home Secretary was greasing the red tops in anticipation of a run at the party leadership.at red top (n.) under red, adj.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 130: [T]they assure us [...] that we’ll all be better off if we can stop employers having to pay silly money to slackers taking us for a ride.at take for a ride (v.) under ride, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 268: [S]he was simply riffing on a theme [i.e. xenophobia] composed and turned up to eleven by the preceding Labour Government.at riff, v.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 274: MPs should be loath to stick their oars into ongoing court proceedings.at shove one’s oar in (v.) under shove, v.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 130: [T]they assure us [...] that we’ll all be better off if we can stop employers having to pay silly money to slackers taking us for a ride.at slacker, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 184: [A] net income of around £27,000 a year. Not small beans, but hardly in keeping with the impression Mr Grayling was eager to create.at small beans (n.) under small, adj.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 273: Constituency MPs making hay over ‘soft judges’ passing insufficiently punitive sentences on local yahoos is a common theme.at soft, adj.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 228: Conservative MP Nigel Evans [...] was himself stung for £130,000 when he was acquitted after a lengthy trial .at sting, v.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 252: Some [of the press] represented a clown car of stupid.at stupid, n.
2020 ‘Secret Barrister’ Fake Law 130: [W]e swallow the MoJ’s premise that tribunals, and access to justice, are just for other people.at swallow, v.