Thanks Ant. Another good one. I enjoyed your quip on bringing back Cain/cane as a punishment. And I agree with you wanting to leave your professional past behind. I think I’ve managed to shed mine fairly successfully over the past thirteen(!) years.
I’m not sure I agree with you, however, about All Rise. I see it that we are standing not for the judge, but for the Law – and the Law stands above everyone ( or should). Hanging onto this principle seems to me to be particularly important at a time when demagogues are trying to usurp the law. So I shall continue rising for the judge and bowing to the King. To quote the children’s poem – “Hang onto Nurse/ For fear of something worse”!
Ýou are right about the legal profession catching up, but slowly. It is difficult to imagine what life is like as a disabled person, but we recently saw something that made us think, while we were on holiday in Athens. We saw a woman in a wheelchair going up the hill to the Acropolis, because the lifts were not working. There is an alternative entry point, higher up, but nobody thought that it might help the unfortunate woman and her family to tell them about it. To allow for both the requirements and the feelings of disabled people may be difficult, but a starting point is to care about them. For me, both the organisers at the Acropolis and, until recently, the Courts Service in the UK simply did not care.
Thanks Ant. Another good one. I enjoyed your quip on bringing back Cain/cane as a punishment. And I agree with you wanting to leave your professional past behind. I think I’ve managed to shed mine fairly successfully over the past thirteen(!) years.
I’m not sure I agree with you, however, about All Rise. I see it that we are standing not for the judge, but for the Law – and the Law stands above everyone ( or should). Hanging onto this principle seems to me to be particularly important at a time when demagogues are trying to usurp the law. So I shall continue rising for the judge and bowing to the King. To quote the children’s poem – “Hang onto Nurse/ For fear of something worse”!
Ýou are right about the legal profession catching up, but slowly. It is difficult to imagine what life is like as a disabled person, but we recently saw something that made us think, while we were on holiday in Athens. We saw a woman in a wheelchair going up the hill to the Acropolis, because the lifts were not working. There is an alternative entry point, higher up, but nobody thought that it might help the unfortunate woman and her family to tell them about it. To allow for both the requirements and the feelings of disabled people may be difficult, but a starting point is to care about them. For me, both the organisers at the Acropolis and, until recently, the Courts Service in the UK simply did not care.