Backroom Preparation for Spectacular Legal Victories


Rebekah Brooks, praised her legal team and in Kingsley Napley (founded by a former Law Society President Sir David Napley who excess fully defended Jeremy Thorpe) and Jonathan Laidlaw QC her team was formidable (see ft.com June 25)

When a witness “breaks” under cross examination and a trial changes, (more often with humour than many people realise) it is almost always as a result of meticulous backroom preparation.

Private before the trial, Scenarios are discussed, rehearsals take place, and in court what looks spontaneous is in fact highly practised and nuanced.

By way of an illustration, Boris Johnson is a very skilled politician.  Some say he comes across as a buffoon, but he is a very well practised skilful “buffoon” who gets across exactly the image and message he wants.

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