Ho hum.

[liadnan]

Good weekend, slightly less good Monday. Saturday was Clique Christmas Dinner at Katy's (if you don't know, don't ask) which finally wound up at about 3.30-4 in the morning, then poured self into taxi back to Rob and Steph's with them and Joff, flaking out fairly soon after. Sunday I sat around with them all day because the world was frankly horrible outside, and watched Harry Potter 3 again.

Didn't do too well in court this morning: won but frankly that was because it would have required a certain amount of effort to lose. Kept calling a Circuit Judge "Sir" (instead of "Your Honour": Sir or Madam is only appropriate for a District Judge, a Master in the High Court or a JP) and then apologising, fortunately he was a genial chap and pretended he still found it amusing the fourth time. Quite unlike HHJ Nameless a while back, who I called Your Honour on the basis that's what he is normally, forgetting he was sitting as a Section 9 Judge (really, don't ask) and therefore in that hearing correctly "My Lord": it's never good when, after you've set out your stall on what should have been a brief non-contentious case-management hearing, the icy response from the bench, tongue quite clearly nowhere near cheek, is "first of all, I'm my Lord...."

Shared a table in Maison Bertaux at lunch with a v. cute woman who turned out to be a ZZ-List celebrity. Well, a presenter on some satellite Chanel 9 style outfit the actual name of which I forget. Now sitting around staring into space, listening to Goldfrapp, wondering if I exceeded even my customary dosage of coffee today, and writing tedious posts here.

Comments

[dr-lovely.livejournal.com]

Oh Marcus ! Nice pics. Don't worry about the My Lord etc, am sure it was just a delayed hangover ! Anyway, you won.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

it's never good when, after you've set out your stall on what should have been a brief non-contentious case-management hearing, the icy response from the bench, tongue quite clearly nowhere near cheek, is "first of all, I'm my Lord...."

An uncle of mine responded to a similar correction with, 'Of course, your Lord'. The judge was nor amused....

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Shared a table in Maison Bertaux at lunch with a v. cute woman who turned out to be a ZZ-List celebrity.

Big beard?

Vaguely related story from Ananova

[booklectica]

A Brazilian judge has won the right to be called 'Your Excellency' or 'Your Honour' - even outside court.

Judge Antonio Marreiro, from Rio de Janeiro, went to court and won his case, reports Terra Noticias Populares.

It means that his neighbours in his apartment block can address him only by the formal titles - or risk a court fine.

However, Judge Marreiro's request has shocked the president of the Brazilian Lawyer's Order.

President Octavio Augusto Brandao Gomes said he found the judge's request "totally insane".

He said: "We are all human beings. No one in this life is better than the other just because they have a title.

"When I see absurd requests like this winning in court I wonder if people like this judge do not have anything better to think about or to accomplish!"