Friday, 25 June 2010

Sexual Harassment at the Bar .New Law Journal 1995.by Barbara Hewson.
Sexual Harassment at the Bar .New Law Journal 1995.by Barbara Hewson.

When the Lord Chief Justice innocently inquired at the recent Women Lawyers Conference is sexual harassment were a recent problem, he came perilously close to being booed by his audience. One woman at the Bar suffered following the break-up of a relationship with their then pupil master: finding herself pregnant by him, she had to leave Chambers. She decided bravely to keep both her child in her career, at considerable personal cost; though she heard of other women elsewhere, in comparable situations who had had abortions instead.

15 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 25, 2010

    dreadful

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  2. AnonymousJune 25, 2010

    Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
    In death’s dream kingdom
    These do not appear:
    There, the eyes are
    Sunlight on a broken column
    There, is a tree swinging
    And voices are
    In the wind’s singing
    More distant and more solemn
    Than a fading star.

    Let me be no nearer
    In death’s dream kingdom
    Let me also wear
    Such deliberate disguises
    Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves
    In a field
    Behaving as the wind behaves
    No nearer—

    Not that final meeting
    In the twilight kingdom

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  3. AnonymousJune 25, 2010

    Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
    In death’s dream kingdom
    These do not appear:
    There, the eyes are
    Sunlight on a broken column
    There, is a tree swinging
    And voices are
    In the wind’s singing
    More distant and more solemn
    Than a fading star.

    Let me be no nearer
    In death’s dream kingdom
    Let me also wear
    Such deliberate disguises
    Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves
    In a field
    Behaving as the wind behaves
    No nearer—

    Not that final meeting
    In the twilight kingdom

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  4. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    quaint if the behaviour wasnt so insane
    most humans love and hon their children before the children of others to please other
    A total outrage for a man to bully his son in this secret and underhand manner
    Unthinkable self endorsement.Inhuman to shunn his son and be smug and gloating about it. Remorsless evil with no fairness and no respect for human dignity especcially his own and his sons who he tried to have aborted for the sake of his career after getting his young orphan pupil pregnant and abandoning her paying only £16.24pence a week while he has a 200 acrea estate
    Good for Sir Derek Spencer Q C what a courageous hero to stand against the bullying elites for the sake of justice and the human rights of a child who the father had declared to him when Sir Derek said the baby was struggling for life and breath on a life support machine,David Cocks Q C the childs father,who had made his pupil pregnant and abandoned her ! "I couldnt care less if the child dies i will never see him he is nothing to me "

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  5. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    miserable old git

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  6. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    This is cruel and selfish behaviour inplanted in a man who was spoilt by his mother to believe he was above normal laws of reponsibilty and compassion
    quaint if the behaviour wasnt so insane
    most humans love and hon their children before the children of others to please other
    A total outrage for a man to bully his son in this secret and underhand manner
    Unthinkable self endorsement.Inhuman to shunn his son and be smug and gloating about it. Remorsless evil with no fairness and no respect for human dignity especcially his own and his sons who he tried to have aborted for the sake of his career after getting his young orphan pupil pregnant and abandoning her paying only £16.24pence a week while he has a 200 acrea estate
    Good for Sir Derek Spencer Q C what a courageous hero to stand against the bullying elites for the sake of justice and the human rights of a child who the father had declared to him when Sir Derek said the baby was struggling for life and breath on a life support machine,David Cocks Q C the childs father,who had made his pupil pregnant and abandoned her ! "I couldnt care less if the child dies i will never see him he is nothing to me "

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  7. AnonymousJune 06, 2011

    sad dad

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  8. AnonymousJune 07, 2011

    david cocks should be ashamed of his unworthy conduct as a pupil master and as a father throwing his pupil out of chambers for not aborting his child,shunning his child and hurting the welfare of mother and child as well as the mothers career as a barrister meanwhile giving full access to him of his much older step children,while always speaking ill and manipupalting every oppotunity to have acces to his own child,telling Sir Derek Spencer Q C when the child was on a life support machine "I couldnt care less if he dies he is nthing to me I will never see him"
    Despite being on of the highest paid prosecution barristers only paying the child £16.25p a week.Sccording to Hansard he earned nearly £500,000 for prosecution cases alone,not to mention private and defence work.

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  9. How could he behave this way

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  10. Truly shocking of david Cocks Q C not decent conduct towards his son and yes How in the name of all that is morally right could David Cocks Q C align his conscience with this cruelty to his own flesh and blood.
    indeed utterly grim.
    Awful behaviour from a rich and powerful man like David Cocks Q C who should know th rules of decency.
    Yes indeed utterly sad and dishonourable

    dreadful and dispariging

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  11. Utterly shocking of David Cocks Q C..............

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  12. I know this guy he always thinks of his own interests first david Cocks Q C should think of his son for once

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