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A Good Joker Makes It

“About bloody time, Case Load, about bloody time, that’s all I can say,” huffed Our Man At The Bar, swallowing a sticky  handful of the next fellow’s nuts. “Good to see a sound brief like Lyn Stevens perched on the High Court at last. Popular pick, if you ask me. Plenty of solid trial experience. Devil of a prosecutor when he served with Meredith Connell. Horse racing mad of course – that’s what probably tipped him in – chummying up with Sian (thoroughbred fancier and chief justice Dame Sian Elias) and her stable mates Farmer (Jim, QC) and Galbraith (Alan, QC). However he got the inside running it’s good to see some pedigree and style back on the Bench, although what on earth he was doing in a German motel when he got the nod beggar’s belief. Lucky blighter gets his own carpark too. Goes without saying he’s an Oxford man. Made of finer of stuff than some of the namby-pamby, dollar-each-way, hand- wringing, time-serving, whoopee-cushion nincompoops anointed in recent times. Just don’t get me started on the sheilas. Good to see they kept you in your proper place waiting outside while the bowing and scraping went on.” Justice Stevens didn’t waste any time getting on with the job, taking on this week a jury trial of a person whose name was suppressed facing major drugs charges including conspiring to import and manufacture methamphetamine, importing and possession of methamphetamine for supply and importing cocaine.