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ADVOCACY THE JUDGE'S VIEW IX: DOES WHAT YOU WEAR TO COURT MATTER?

ADVOCACY THE JUDGE’S VIEW IX: DOES WHAT YOU WEAR TO COURT MATTER?

January 3, 2025 · by gexall · in Advocacy, Members Content, Useful links

We are revisiting to the series on “Advocacy – the Judge’s view”. This particular post was originally inspired by a search term that arrived on this this blog  “Can a solicitor dress casually in county court”.  This caused a lot…

DRESSING FOR COURT: GUIDANCE AND TWO NEW USEFUL LINKS

July 28, 2021 · by gexall · in Advocacy, Members Content

Two  posts on the “Yetanotherbloggingbarrister” blog are worth reading on the, sometimes difficult, question of dress for pupil barristers.  I provide the links here. This provides a chance to look again at guidance given more widely. Not only for pupils…

COVID REPEATS 22: DRESSING FOR COURT: NO RIPPED JEANS, BUT NO TOP HAT,  TAILS AND SPATS EITHER

COVID REPEATS 22: DRESSING FOR COURT: NO RIPPED JEANS, BUT NO TOP HAT, TAILS AND SPATS EITHER

May 15, 2020 · by gexall · in Advocacy, Conduct, Coronavirus, Members Content

I thought hard about whether repeating a post about dressing for court is appropriate for the current times. We will have to go back to court one day, and current guidance dictates that (the top half of us at least)…

DOES WHAT YOU WEAR MATTER?  GUIDANCE FOR ADVOCATES AND LITIGANTS

DOES WHAT YOU WEAR MATTER? GUIDANCE FOR ADVOCATES AND LITIGANTS

November 20, 2018 · by gexall · in Advocacy, Civil evidence, Members Content

Does how you dress affect how you are perceived? A recent tweet (from the USA) contained a complaint from a lawyer that a judge had upbraided them in court for not wearing a tie.  The lawyer asserted that there were…

BEHAVIOUR IN THE COURTROOM - IT GOES FURTHER THAN YOU THINK:  SOME CASES AND SOME GUIDANCE

BEHAVIOUR IN THE COURTROOM – IT GOES FURTHER THAN YOU THINK: SOME CASES AND SOME GUIDANCE

October 8, 2017 · by gexall · in Access to justice, Applications, Civil evidence, Conduct, Credibility of experts, Members Content

The vast majority of studies on behaviour in the courtroom concentrate on the interaction between the judge, the advocates and the witnesses.  However the courtroom is a big place. Twice in recent weeks we have seen judges refer to the…

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