A Legal Life

The following columns were published by the Independent on Sunday's 'Talk of the Town' supplement between 2003 and 2004. The supplement's last issue was in early 2004. Alex's columns appeared variously in the guise of 'A Lawyer's Life' and 'Middle Temple.'

The column now continues in The Times, where it is published weekly.

The Times

How do you sue a witch for breach of contract?: 23/03/2007
What on earth was the BBC thinking?: 16/03/2007
It wasn't me, guv - I'm just the office cat: 09/03/2007
Embracing texting will show that we lawyers are not fuddy-duddies: 02/03/2007
A family affair: 23/02/2007
The football club that keeps brushing with the law: 16/02/2007
Plan to 'name and shame' solicitors is flawed: 09/02/2007
Two Irish lawyers and a piece of cake: 25/01/2007
Who cares what the Law Panel think? Here are the laws that really need changing: 19/01/2007
Time for a new privacy law that leaves well alone: 12/01/2007
Exclusively revealed: lawyers' resolutions for 2007: 05/01/2007
From Cole to Caprice, celebrities kept lawyers busy in 2006: 18/12/2006
What do you get a lawyer for Christmas?: 13/12/2006
Does Kazakhstan deserve Borat? Not if its legal community is anything to go by: 01/12/2006
'I know my rights, I work for a lawyer': 24/11/2006
TV in court is a great idea — but not in the way the Lord Chancellor intends: 17/11/2006
A loophole I'd rather not use: 10/11/2006
Ratty's brush with the law: 03/11/2006
The Rime of the Idiot Media Lawyer: 27/10/2006
Give it up: 20/10/2006
Sun, sand, poker - if only life was always this simple: 13/10/2006
And I thought judges were saints...: 06/10/2006
Maintaining the illusion: 29/09/2006
Every honest lawyer knows he is a liar: 22/09/2006
'Short back and sides? How's your marriage, by the way?': 15/09/2006
Lawyers must come clean about how they account for time: 08/09/2006
Ten simple rules to get ahead in the law: 01/09/2006
Among the Legionnaires: 25/08/2006
An early lesson in evidence: 18/08/2006
Born liars: 11/08/2006
'System failure? There has been no system failure!': 04/08/2006
No more country idyll: 28/072006
What's in a title?: 21/072006
Devil walks into a libel lawyer's office...: 13/072006
Where PAs go to share their secrets: 07/07/2006
No haddock, no justice: 30/06/2006
My double life: 23/06/2006
Chess, love and rivalry: 16/06/2006
Lawyers get World Cup fever: 09/06/2006
Oops, that reminds me - I must return that library book...: 2 June 2006
The brave new world of divorce: 26/05/2006
Master of the Labyrinth: 19/05/2006
The attendance note: 12/05/2006
Falling off the greasy pole: 05/05/2006
Peter Fluck is angry: 27/042006
A barrister's brain is larger than a solicitor's: 14/042006
A lesson in ethics at the Grand National: 07/04/2006
Smuggling drugs? Now that's taking 'added value' too far: 31/03/2006
A celebrity's right to privacy: 23/03/2006
Sharks in the courtroom, sharks at the table: 16/03/2006

Independent on Sunday

Men beware women: 29/02/2004
A Lawyer’s Life: 01/02/2004
The perils of porn: 11/01/2004
Why do you hate us so?: 04/01/2004
The lure of seagulls: 07/12/2003
In defence of onanism: 23/11/2003
Men of letters: 26/10/2003
Cometh the Fruitcake: 19/10/2003
A matter of contract: ?/09/2003
Respectfully Yours: 31/08/2003
Beware the Fat Cat Lawyer: 27/07/2003
The Lost Libel Paradise: 06/072003
Insufferable superiority: 27/04/ 2003
Me and my stiff upper lip: 06/04/2003
In the Bear garden: ?/03/2003
A Smash in the Mouth for the Law: 9/03/2003