On the subject of contempt of court, Obiterventures to correct Mrs Justice Lang DBE over a stinging put-down in a judgment pub-lished last week.

Discussing whether a bar standards tribunal would be influenced by an article in the Gazette, Lang noted that solicitors are the Gazette’s target audience.

She commented: ‘It would be surprising if lay members read these articles, and it cannot be assumed that barristers and judges would read the Gazetteon a regular basis, if at all.’

Obiter respectfully begs to submit that several hundred barristers subscribe to the Gazette app every week.

And Obiter has had several responses from learned judges to our invitation to submit tales of first days in the law

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