Lord Pannick to represent City / Pannick's OJ-style Summation

halfcenturyup said:
Me too. It's not something that enters your mind after a lifetime of QCs until you actually have to consider it.
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Had a WhatsApp conversation with a former QC (who became a KC in the blink of an eye, obviously) the day after the Queen died who genuinely thought she had the option to remain a QC if she wanted. Told her that I don’t think it works like that!
 
jrb said:
Petrusha, Jack & Co.

Probably a stupid question, but what the hell.

Will the PL fear Pannick and his legal team, or will they have a Barrister and their legal team that are just as capable?(as fees are also no object for the PL)

Thanks.
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Pannick seems to be recognised by practitioners, including one or two I know, as the best in the business. In 2019, I followed a stream of the second Gina Miller case before the Supreme Court (the one when it was held that Boris Johnson had unlawfully prorogued Parliament) and he prevailed, with the judges voting 11-0 in favour of the proposition Pannick was arguing.

He was phenomenally good. Sir James Eadie QC (as KCs were then referred to) was representing the Government and was clearly a brilliant advocate but there was no doubt who the star was. But the law was on his side in this case, and as Pannick himself noted in a profile I linked to earlier in this thread, it all comes down to the evidence. You're right that the PL will also be represented by stellar KCs and we'll be found guilty of any charge with respect to which the PL, via its legal team, presents sufficiently persuasive evidence of our guilt to meet the relevant standard of proof.

Nonetheless, if Pannick does end up representing us, we couldn't be in better hands. What he'd give us is the knowledge that, whatever our case is, it probably couldn't be put forward better by someone else. That's what we want.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Had a WhatsApp conversation with a former QC (who became a KC in the blink of an eye, obviously) the day after the Queen died who genuinely thought she had the option to remain a QC if she wanted. Told her that I don’t think it works like that!
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I suppose it's just as well they are called King's Counsel now. Calling them Queen's Counsel would be considered homophobic in today's world given the people they work with wear robes and wigs all the time.
 
petrusha said:
Pannick seems to be recognised by practitioners, including one or two I know, as the best in the business. In 2019, I followed a stream of the second Gina Miller case before the Supreme Court (the one when it was held that Boris Johnson had unlawfully prorogued Parliament) and he prevailed, with the judges voting 11-0 in favour of the proposition Pannick was arguing.

He was phenomenally good. Sir James Eadie QC (as KCs were then referred to) was representing the Government and was clearly a brilliant advocate but there was no doubt who the star was. But the law was on his side in this case, and as Pannick himself noted in a profile I linked to earlier in this thread, it all comes down to the evidence. You're right that the PL will also be represented by stellar KCs and we'll be found guilty of any charge with respect to which the PL, via its legal team, presents sufficiently persuasive evidence of our guilt to meet the relevant standard of proof.

Nonetheless, if Pannick does end up representing us, we couldn't be in better hands. What he'd give us is the knowledge that, whatever our case is, it probably couldn't be put forward better by someone else. That's what we want.
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Advocacy is a marginal art. No matter how good you are, it’s impossible to turn water into wine. If the material you are working with is shit, then it matters not how persuasive, or revered as an advocate, you are.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Advocacy is a marginal art. No matter how good you are, it’s impossible to turn water into wine. If the material you are working with is shit, then it matters not how persuasive, or revered as an advocate, you are.
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Is this when the best do their work outside of the courts, negotiate & lose as well as you can.
 
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