First proper dining night at Lincoln's Inn - Domus Dinner - a very good night had, and was sat near a criminal QC! Suffice to say that even in the modern bar, finding a high powered criminal practitioner at Lincoln's is like stepping in rocking-horse poo...

However, joy severely dampened by returning to discover rejection from Becket Chambers in Canterbury and the dawning realisation that I haven't prepared for my Criminal Advocacy tutorial in which I will be expected to cross-examine a witness... bugger.

At least I've finally knocked the bloody opinion for Re Harrison on the head - printed and largely forgotten... if only I had a skeleton for the pesky quantum in that case I'd have complied with the required work for the tutorial. Ho hum - one cannot have everything, and since I haven't been taught how to write an opinion I think the tutors should count themselves bloody lucky that I've produced anything at all... Hmmph - twelve bloody grand and not so much as a word of instruction regarding how to approach a piece of work which is bread and butter to a civil hack! Thank God for the criminal bar, if I could only get into it!