Expatenglish wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 11:39 pm To answer some previous questions.
1000 pounds was par for the course for a QC to leave her chambers in Central London and jump on the train to do a days work in Brighton. Naturally she had done some preparation before hand - all billed in 6 minute slots.
The Circuit Judge advised me that my comments relating to her refraining from the pies, whilst festive in accord with the spirit of Christmas, were irrelevant to the legal arguments and could I stick to the point.
To reach her second class carriage she had to walk past my first class carriage via the station buffet clutching her pies and sandwiches. After all, I had given her a hard time and comfort eating was her recovery strategy which differed from my comfort drinking. No doubt there were more sandwiches and pies back in her chambers. The train company knew me well and always crushed ice for me before the train departed to compliment the Gordons and Schweppes in a highball tumbler with a slice of lemon. The railway tracks at Three Bridges always shook the train which was the cue for the attendant to serve me a second double. On arrival at Victoria a black cab would whisk me of to the Clermont Club - the last place Lord Lucan was seen alive.