When The Observer conferred silk upon ‘Loverson’ barrister David Sherborne (who’s not a QC) on Sunday, it was conforming to an age old media transition of mis-describing lawyers’ rank. Happily, as experienced newspaper readers well know, there’s a logic to journalists’ lawyer mis-descriptions which allows their true meaning to be easily deciphered…
“Top judge” = Constance Briscoe
“Judge” = a member of the judiciary
“Top QC” = a QC/Constance Briscoe
“QC” = a barrister
“Barrister” = a barrister/law graduate/paralegal
“Top human rights lawyer” = Cherie Blair
“Legal eagle” = a solicitor
“Solicitor” = an extremely socially corrosive emissary of Satan
