Who wants to be a saint in a room full of sinners?

Why I don’t want to be a General Counsel

This week has seen some extraordinary questioning of, and evidence from, in-house lawyers at the Post Office Horizon Inquiry. The Inquiry is being live-streamed, and more lawyers are due to appear next week. IP Draughts recommends that readers spend a few minutes watching the cross-examination of legal witnesses.

This seems a good time to re-post the attached blog article from five years ago. While not all of the lawyers in the Post Office case are General Counsel, the points made in the earlier blog apply most forcefully to GCs.