Lookout, for a cynic you have an unusually naive view of lawyers. There are prosecution lawyers and there are defense lawyers. Do you really believe that the guilty/innocent always end up with the appropriate lawyer? Their job is to do the best they can for their client, so what they're hoping for is to put together a story that a jury will buy. We know, from where we are, Jeremy's original team COULD have done a better job. Maybe they did what they could with what they had, but didn't trust his innocence? I may sound as cynical as yourself, here, but a lawyer's responsibility -loyalty- to their client is temporary. They're hardly going to fall out -in any lasting way- with their opposite number in court when a case doesn't go their way. They'll meet them at another trial. They'll be having supper with them. Their spouses are friends. Their clients will disappear from their lives. I suspect neither side will turn down a case that they feel they have a chance of winning. It's a test of their legal skill. Probably, the more it tests them, the more interesting they find it. I imagine this case of Jeremy's will test them to the limit.
I'm more than aware of the work of lawyers and also how some are treated to. I had tremendous sympathy for the once Chief Prosecutor for the North West, Afzal Nazir,and this country's first Muslim lawyer,who'd stood up to those monsters in Rotherham for their part in the grooming of children,only to be shouted down as being a racist for prosecuting the evil mob.
Even the EDL had threatened him,so these sort of threats and the general behaviour of some members of the public towards mainly the prosecution lawyers doesn't go unnoticed.
It's now become the sort of career/vocation that they now take their life into their hands with little or no protection from the police.
Since when have security guards been hired in A&E departments,and teachers being punched and stabbed by their pupils ? This is the type of duty which is now mapped out to prosecuting and defence lawyers alike.
