This year's Ebenezer Scrooge Award goes to David Cocks, QC, who has chosen the Christmas season to serve a summons on Felicity Hammerton seeking to end the £10,000 per year maintenance he pays for their illegitimate child, also named David. Their one-year affair – he was her pupil master in chambers – took place in the 1970s. Earlier this year, it emerged in a parliamentary answer that Cocks receives almost £500,000 in fees for his prosecutorial work. At 71 he draws a state and a private pension, and also does private and and legal aid work, garnering another £200,000. He has a 200-acre farm in the West Country, which helps offset his tax liability. Felicity Hammerton lives on incapacity benefit of £74.56 a week and pays their son's university fees out of her modest savings. The son, who is registered disabled, wishes to continue full-time education. I have followed this sorry saga from the time when Cocks denied paternity on oath, through his efforts to exhaust Hammerton with legal ploys, through his attempts to take David out of private school, through criticism of his conduct by the Family Court – and now this. The hearing is set down for 3 January. I hope Cocks receives a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Future and is confronted with his hellish prospects.
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
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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.
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
ReplyDeleteIn 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.
excellent to with stand an immoral demand to exclude a child how marvelous of Sir Derek Spencer he sure deserves his knighthood,should be in the house of Lords courage like his goes a long way to redeem the unconsciunable disregard of te callous father who cares not oe wit for his own son
ReplyDeleteGood 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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As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death’s twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.
quaint if the behaviour wasnt so insane
ReplyDeletemost 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
miserable git
ReplyDeletedavid 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"
ReplyDeleteDespite 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.
Carefree cruelty and smug irresponsibility
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devious enterprise against his unwantented youngest child who he tried to have aborted for convenience before birth
Does David Cocks Q C come from the planet of child abandoment if not what planet the planet of I only care for convenient offspring or step children
Rather brutal
ReplyDeleteTruly 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.
ReplyDeleteindeed 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
Utterly shocking of David Cocks Q C....................
ReplyDeleteI 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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