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Secret Barrister 117: [B]elow the executive and senior management hierarchy there are many, many wonderful and hardworking men and women [...] who do give a damn.at give a damn, v.
Secret Barrister 117: [B]elow the executive and senior management hierarchy there are many, many wonderful and hardworking men and women [...] who do give a damn. Secret Barrister 311: [U]nrepresented applicants who [...] have decided to chance their arm with a speculative appeal.at chance one’s arm (v.) under arm, n.
Secret Barrister 324: An application for leave to appeal [...] was lodged half-heartedly, knocked back by the Court of Appeal, renewed and dismissed.at knock back, v.
Secret Barrister 146: [A] four-hour round trip on public transport, for an adjourned trial smack bang in the middle of their school exam period.at slap-bang, adv.
Secret Barrister 21: Mr. Tuttle could have avoided the stress of a trial by pleading guilty [...] his confession to a criminal offence would be gladly banked by the English courts .at bank, v.1
Secret Barrister 123: [I] bashed out a short, direct email for Megan to forward directly to the police officer in charge of the case.at bash out (v.) under bash, v.
Secret Barrister 94: [Y]ou are released into the big wide world without so much as a ‘sorry about that, old bean’.at old bean (n.) under bean, n.2
Secret Barrister 108: She was fifteen years old when she moved in to his squat; a few months older when Rob, to ‘break her in’ [...] first injected her with heroin.at break (someone) in (v.) under break, v.1
Secret Barrister 165: [S]he trawls the neighbours for potential defence witnesses and returning to find her [car] windows bricked in.at brick, v.1
Secret Barrister 261: [B]ad faith on the part of the prosecuting authorities is more than just the fantasy of the green ink brigade.at brigade, n.
Secret Barrister 49: He just wanted the hearing over and done with, so he could check out of this human zoo [...] and meet up with his mates on the inside.at check out, v.1
Secret Barrister 255: [I]n a final jaw-dropping exhibition of institutional chutzpah, the Chief Constable of Northamptonshire had not withdrawn the commendation.at chutzpah, n.
Secret Barrister 242: No Georges [...] clobbering them relentlessly with a club of bad-character evidence.at clobber, v.2
Secret Barrister 3: An audible snigger from my left tells me that Mr. Tuttle’s goose is cooked.at cook someone’s goose, v.
Secret Barrister 71: The case is stood down for us to crack on with another trial.at crack on, v.1
Secret Barrister 65: DJs are often drawn from the shrewdest, sharpest solicitors familiar with obscure legal technicalities that baffle day-tripper barristers visiting the magistrates’ court.at day tripper (n.) under day, n.
Secret Barrister 48: A man with a gleaming head [...] was accosting each suit that walked by: ‘Are you the duty?’ ‘‘Scuze mate, are you the duty?’.at duty, n.
Secret Barrister 296: [T]hey [Parliament] looked at the list, turned (a) [sic] up to eleven and to tabloid joy introduced mandatory minimum sentences.at eleven, n.
Secret Barrister 211: Fistfuls of fifties were not being stuffed down the gullets of fat-cat lawyers.at fifty, n.
Secret Barrister 1: It is near-impossible to successfully run self-defence without giving your own account on oath as to why you brought fisty justice to bear on the man next doo.at fisty, adj.
Secret Barrister 5: Carried away with the myth of my own brilliance, I have somehow fluffed it all up.at fluff, v.1
Secret Barrister 282: Frequent flyers become well acquainted with the judicial personalities in their local courts.at frequent flyer, n.
Secret Barrister 125: I mused, choosing my words delicately, ‘I think we’re fucked’.at fucked, adj.1
Secret Barrister 282: No two judges are the same, and two similar defendants might be sentenced entirely differently depending on their tribunals. Who you get is often determinative of what you get.at get, v.
Secret Barrister 64: The most complex legal principles and judgments [...] are interpreted and applied by, using the term as neutrally as possible, amateurs. People who fancy a go.at go, n.1
Secret Barrister 262: It is impossible to successfully prosecute criminal cases without the graft and ingenuity of police officers.at graft, n.2
Secret Barrister 92: [H]e hadn’t grafted (stolen) the whole time he’d been with her.at graft, v.3
Secret Barrister 71: The mags are not to be defeated [...] they yank out the big guns. Is your mum at court with you at court today, Kyle? Of course she isn’t.at big gun (n.) under gun, n.1
Secret Barrister 89: [T]he hearings are usually short, sometimes no more than a few minutes a pop [...] occasionally less rightly, because of a trigger-happy judge shooting from the hip.at trigger happy, adj.
Secret Barrister 131: [R]ecognizing his incredibly good fortune, he regarded Amy Jackson as a bullet dodged and kept his head down.at keep one’s head down (v.) under head, n.
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