Flamboyant Lawyers
Those who think that flamboyant lawyers died with George Carman, should look at David Sherborne, Prince Harry’s lawyer in the Daily Mail libel case. Floppy hair, glamorous and with a taste for publicity on the steps of the court.
Even he, however, struggled to make Prince Harry’s case interesting, and it felt more like a tennis match between seniors, not at Wimbledon, but in the Albert Hall.
The judge could be forgiven for struggling to stay awake with such remarks as “It’s a bit like pin the tail on the donkey, but we are blindfolded and there is very little donkey left to pin the tail on”.
Hardly the rip-roaring barrister who tore into Rebekah Vardy.
April 2026
Rodney Hylton-Potts