Thanks as ever, Joshua. Pending the judgment, I confine myself merely to observing that from my earliest to my last days of practice as a criminal defence advocate I viewed my role as including wherever appropriate pushing the edge of the envelope, even at the risk of making myself unpopular. Part of that process was likely, in the event of my argument failing, to require me to emphasise how that point had been my lawyer’s point rather than one envisaged by the client. I await the ruling and your (always) so lucid appraisal of it with much interest.
Thanks as ever, Joshua. Pending the judgment, I confine myself merely to observing that from my earliest to my last days of practice as a criminal defence advocate I viewed my role as including wherever appropriate pushing the edge of the envelope, even at the risk of making myself unpopular. Part of that process was likely, in the event of my argument failing, to require me to emphasise how that point had been my lawyer’s point rather than one envisaged by the client. I await the ruling and your (always) so lucid appraisal of it with much interest.