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Max Hardy
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Barrister | TV legal consultant (Mr Bates, Landscapers, Criminal UK, Defending the Guilty) | Legal blogger & media commentator |
Kalisher Trust Trustee

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To be a barrister you need a brain, to be an effective barrister you need an armoury. 🧠🦯🗡️🔫🪶💣https://open.substack.com/pub/counselofperfection/p/the-barristers-armoury?r=7wxlo&utm_medium=ios
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Last Tangoed in Paris
October 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Who needs Waterloo Sunset when you can have Woolwich Sunrise?
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Lived in London for 45 years and only saw this building on Three Mills Island for the first time last week and it’s already a favourite. This city gives for a lifetime.
October 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
You know you’ve been at the Criminal Bar too long when your first thought is murder trial and not painting and decorating.
October 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Tourist Board under Reform. Don’t miss a trip to the Pastycceria.
October 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This gesture by the French scrum half Pauline Bourdon Sansus is the most French thing that ever happened
September 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Piccadilly Polly
September 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Only met Conor Gearty shortly before his untimely death. Told him I was Catholic but descended from William of Orange's Lord Chancellor and Ulster Covenanters, he smiled. We are ALL humans before we're labels. Human rights are for ALL of us; whatever our labels. May he RIP.
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
If the pot of gold is in there then I’m afraid it’s a realisable asset under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and falls to be confiscated.
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
How long before summer snow is a memory in the Alps? A lament for melting glaciers: open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
August 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Absolutely no idea if this is true but would be ironic if the Sovereign was perfectly content to share sovereignty with Europe.
August 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
London has a population of over 8 million people. If you need to go to a police station at night there will be 1 counter available for every million Londoners. THAT is why the criminal justice system is in crisis.
August 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
One last Peepo! to Allan Ahlberg whose books will forever surpass the frightful dross so often written for children today.
July 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Give blood.
Save lives.
#74 🅾️➖
July 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Am reading The Count of Monte Cristo to the 8yo.
Me: As you see here, pride is the deadliest vice of all in a prosecutor.
8yo: What are you talking about?
June 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The 0yo is 1yo today.
June 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
‘Barman Wrestling With Donald Trump’
May 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
On 26 July 2023 Andrew Malkinson stood on the steps of the Court of Appeal, you can read his T-shirt. Today Peter Sullivan is released, with DNA exonerating them both. DNA did not convict either of them, how many more are there?
May 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Never noticed these chambers before, maybe she’s a soul practitioner?
May 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Anyone with a heart hopes this presages an equitable peace.
Anyone with a brain knows this is my way or the highway (to Hell).
Anyone with a soul is praying for Providence to intervene.
April 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It’s ironic that he gave his name to the adjective ‘Shavian’ as that’s the one thing he never did.
April 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
When you’re an engineer but your true calling is witchcraft
April 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
What’s Nootter?
April 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
As fortune cookies go it’s not the worst
April 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM