And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn around and argue against them. You certainly grow as a lawyer from getting such a varied set of experiences.
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
The option of solicitor advocacy came on the scene a bit too late for me.
I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.
I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.
If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.