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Clerklife: All you needed to know about criminal listings but were afraid to ask - Part 1
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'Look it's easy - JPS has to do the sentence that's reserved to Judge Jones and the two Plea and Fixes for Goldberg Singh and Co. You either have to get them all in the same court or else up and down the lists so he can get between courts.' That was all the advice that Donna the first junior clerk
1 gave me before packing me off to the Crown Court for the daily listing meeting.
I had successfully attended my first listing meeting a couple of weeks earlier but that was the chancery meeting. This was different: at least that was what Donna had said. She had also said a lot about not being stitched up and keeping an eye on Bob from Prince's Court as he was well known for not playing by 'the rules'.
I didn't know what 'the rules' were. Not did I really know what I was doing. The senior clerk was entertaining clients
2 and so Donna couldn't fulfil her normal role of keeper of the criminal lists. As far as I could...
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