Ben Cooper QC - Lawyer of the Week (in the Times)

Very true. Making Mr Cooper 'Lawyer of the Week' is like making the Captain of the Titanic 'Sailor of the Week'. Both failed their clients.

Arguing with these new posters is like arguing with the someone still polishing the brass as the titanic was sinking... It doesn't matter if they are polishing the brass, and it doesnt matter if we agree.... Ths ship is absolutely sinking.

Whoever represented Stonewall - aka the lawyer who won the case.

I don't need to watch the livefeed to know the Mr Cooper lost his client's case against Stonewall.

She should have hired a better lawyer.

Which one was that then?

Weird, because I read Stonewall won.

I would suggest no one bite to the above comment... it deraules the positivity.

Anyway, I have three kids under 5 so no time to watch the court cases or to read through the threads.

I would love it if someone collected all the stella Ben Cooper moments in one place 🙏

"Ben's exceptional performance" - he lost the case.

Stonewall had a much better lawyer.

@Hearach15 tell me you didn't watch the live feed of the ET, without telling me you didn't watch the live feed.....

The IDEA that that those responsible for the most embarrassing and frustrating court bundle blundering, and completely unable to competently operate a webcam or mute at appropriate times, could win any sort of award is seriously worthy of scorn. That's without mentioning the very serious suspicion (unproven) that the muttered insults of AB came from their microphone.

Stonewall won the case against Allison Bailey. No matter what way you spin it she lost

(And their revenue has gone up, up, up in recent years. Must be that all the hate from GCs has given them a lot of good publicity among the LGBT community and allies).

Maybe if AB had had a better lawyer she would have won against Stonewall. I presume she didn't raise 500k just to sue the organisation with no hope of success.

As it is 500k legal fees and only 20k compensation from Garden Chambers seems a poor exchange for Mr Cooper's no doubt large legal fees.

Why is he lawyer of the week - he lost the case against Stonewall and won in one aspect against Garden Chambers.

Surely Stonewall's lawyers who won the case in court are more deserving of this accolade?

Allison*

A personal favourite was the luminescent Bensplaining of a text message in Alison's case they tried to minimise

"It does stand for 'for fuck's sake' though, doesn't it?"

My only concern is that he’s going to get “labelled”. Or, equally, put on a pedestal (and then torn down, a favourite sport on social media or sections of the press).

BC has been Lawyer of the Week on a previous occasion and for his work in a number of employment areas. He's very obviously exceptional to have made silk in 16 years.

I like to think that BC has spent a bit of downtime in his garden office, with a chilled glass of his favourite tipple. Surrounded by his lovely wall art. Whilst leisurely scrolling through the multiple threads created this year re MF and AB.

Yes, he was just doing his job. But boy did he do it well.

The bundle comment was perfect.

My only concern is that he’s going to get “labelled”. Or, equally, put on a pedestal (and then torn down, a favourite sport on social media or sections of the press).

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Most of my friends are the 'be kind' type. For a couple of weeks my FB feed was full of posts about support parrots and so on. That may not be a win for Allison, but it's definitely a loss for stonewall.

Were you and your colleagues not privately thinking What The Actual Fuck? (albeit possibly in a more eloquently way)?

Perhaps Ben and his colleagues had Arkell v Pressdram in mind? In that particular case, the publisher of Private Eye responded to a legal letter by saying, "We acknowledge your letter of [...] We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you could inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off. Yours etc."

Hello Ben!

Ben, if you're reading (digression: would you consider doing an AMA?), I would love to know how you found it hard not to snort out loud when "someone" from Stonewall turned up with a lawyer, a support person, her mother and her dog. Were you and your colleagues not privately thinking What The Actual Fuck? (albeit possibly in a more eloquently way)?

Are there review sites for Barristers? Your comment would make a great recommendation quote.

😂😂😂

Ben is a great example of a beardy man who isn’t a bawbag!

I'm just here to wave to Ben.
Hi Ben 👋love you!