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Clerklife: My first listing meeting
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‘Get yer jacket on you’re off to the chancery listing meeting’
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It was Monday and I had a throbbing head a slightly nauseous feeling and the need for fried food - all of which may have been linked to a weekend which I recall started at around Thursday lunch time.
[2]
What on earth did the senior clerk mean?
What’s chancery?
[3] I thought to myself. I knew the first junior regularly trotted off to court for listing meetings but I didn’t really know what it meant. The ones in the early afternoon always prompted a wild flurry of activity which I didn’t fully understand but usually meant me wandering around the city picking up and dropping off briefs.
The boss handed me a sheaf of paper and talked me through it. There was a list of cases which were going to be given fixed dates over the next 6 months. He had marked the names...
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