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@Wannabe
Pretty much. to start with, it was all good fun, coming back from the canteen with a sandwich to find a big bag of drugs and two guns on your desk, and a crowd of coppers waiting to hear your advice.
But I didn't become a barrister to be the whipping boy of the criminal justice system, and that had become my job. I spent all my time apologising for file cock-ups, being bollocked by judges, catching up on incompetent colleagues' work, trying to give the police decent charging advice, and fighting spurious racism claims from colleagues.
It's a total joke in London, and massively overstaffed in the regions (which are therefore nicer places to work). I'm glad I got out when I did.
I developed a bit of a road rage speciality, and it chills my blood. People are so casual about using their cars as a weapon. Charged a guy with a s18 (GBH w/intent, v v serious) for ramming a guy on a scooter at the lights. Scooter's crime was overtaking him, which dented his ego or something, and he pulled up alongside at the lights, and just deliberately rammed him, squashed him against a railing, from memory. Broken femur and a week in traction. A guys tries to queue jump at a petrol station, gets beeped at, and tries to run the bloke over. I mean, seriously, wtf is wrong with people?
Guns, gangs, drugs, kiddie porn, all in a day's work.