Max Hardy
@maxjlhardy
Barrister | TV legal consultant (Mr Bates, Landscapers, Criminal UK, Defending the Guilty) | Legal blogger & media commentator Kalisher Trust Trustee Blogs, lectures, podcasts, profiles here:
If there’s anything better, as a parent, than having your child’s kindness commended I don’t know what that is. open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
Schools get you ready for the world of work so why not a life of love?https://open.substack.com/pub/counselofperfection/p/an-educated-heart?r=7wxlo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
The Kalisher Trust and its supporters treated to a knock out performance of Sir John Mortimer’s The Dock Brief from these titans of British stage and screen, Martin Shaw and Jason Watkins, at Middle Temple this evening.
Please can Count Binface add to his manifesto a national prohibition on serving ketchup in these.
Here is a post about crime and what the public should be entitled to know and when and what the criminal justice process should make known and when. open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
If Count Binface wins he won’t be able to take up his seat dressed like that, he would have to sit outside with the other bins.
I wrote this a while back about how clowns are the most dangerous opponents. So I hope Count Binface is ready to be on his metal (🥁): open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
Meet your heroes but for heaven’s sake treat them nicely. open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
Practise in law long enough and you’ll likely submit to the sway of the legal directories. Here are some testimonials you’re unlikely ever to see: open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
The men who actually run Britain. One in the Palace and one in Downing Street.
i can hold a red fan! i can fan with the fan as i hop on the ball! but that is not all. oh, no. that is not all...
Nice of the 2yo to arrange the silver. Into the cupboard would have been preferable.
For a man who hates small boats so much why does Farage dress like he’s starring in an Am-Dram production of 3 Men in a Boat?
A Prince's Progress - does it matter where Prince George goes to school? open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
A small but select team from 9BR Chambers participating in the London Legal Walk, including the legendary Patricia May, still advocating in justice’s cause at 61 years’ call and fit as a fiddle.
As a 3 time witness to the aw(e)ful wonder that is childbirth here’s a tribute to mothers everywhere. Happy Mother’s Day USA. open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
Happy 100th birthday to David Attenborough, a unique person but the embodiment of virtues available to any man should he so choose. If you’re looking for the antidote to toxic masculinity here he is. And here’s something I wrote about it. substack.com/@counselofpe...
Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
There is a short period in a young boy’s life when if he sees sand, a dust covered surface or condensation on a car window a smiley face is all that occurs to him. Treasure that time. 😊