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| -Lurid Crime Tales- |
| The most entertaining trial transcript ever |
| 2008-03-27 |
| ". . . I should remind you that barristers have an innate reluctance to frame a question as a question. Where you and I would say, 'Where were you on Tuesday?', they are more likely to say, 'Perhaps you could now inform the court of your precise whereabouts on the day after that Monday?'. It isnÂ’t, strictly, a question, and it is not graceful English but you must pretend that it is a question and then answer it, otherwise we will be here for ever. . . ." Go read it all. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 Funny as hell, but a re-re-re-run. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-03-27 19:52 |
| #1 And, as one of its commenters pointed out, this was a humo[u]r piece in the Telegraph. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2008-03-27 18:52 |