My Trip to the High Court

  It is 23 May 2019, a day for which we have waited a long, long time. Comprehensive and unchallenged affidavits from  Tom Burke ,  John Comber  and  Philip O'Farrell  are turning proceedings on their head. Now the three men are here to be cross examined by John Paul Shortt SC and it is hard to know how Shortt can extricate his client David Dully from beneath the mountain of truth.  But there is a new script. The tables have been turned and instead truth finds itself under the mountain. It is not subtle. Burke, Comber and O'Farrell have all failed to turn up and this means - though the lawyers do not couch it in this way - that we will need to settle the case, and settle on terms which will be written by the opposition. There is a lot of acting going on. Urgency and concern are everywhere, lots of scampering and furrowed brows. The acting is mostly left to the barristers, who fancy themselves as thespians but fall some way short of the RSC. My counsel ...

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