finalthought
Well ’ard lawyers
Solicitor Geoffrey Sturgess should
win a prize for sitting on a cyclist
who assaulted him (after the cyclist
collided with his stationary car).
Geoffrey Sturgess shares his
When he asked for his name and
tales of scarily tough lawyers
address, the cyclist hit him in the
face and tried to run off. Sturgess
with Alison Ledger
wrestled him to the ground and
sat on him until the police arrived,
proving that just because he wears a
bow tie, it doesn’t mean he’s a sissy.
Geoffrey isn’t the only have-a-
Animal instincts
go hero. Barrister James Hassall
apprehended and restrained
an intruder at his set, Guildhall
Chambers, while he waited for the
police. But then as a man who enjoys
black-belt level karate, ’no holds
barred’, martial arts competitions
and once reached the semi-finals
of something called ’Grapple and
Strike’, he’s not the sort of person
you want to take on in a fight.
But on the other hand, there were
numerous reports of partners
brawling at Christmas parties, which
seems to be a particularly popular
pastime in the London offices of
US firms.
However my favourite comes from
Hong Kong, where a law school dean
in his fifties got into a fight with
another senior academic at the end
of a boozy dinner. This resulted in
two middle-aged men rolling around
on the floor attempting to slap each
other – before they were eventually
separated by the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Hong Kong.
Geoffrey Sturgess is a
franchising law specialist
and partner at Blake Lapthorn,
dealing with commercial
transactions and intellectual
property, IT and franchising. He
became a legal affiliate of the
bfa in 1992.
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