Orange Is The New Black in Ambridge. Just ask Helen. But will anyone in The Archers ever ask her WHY?

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I reckon this thread will see us through the Euros, both footy and referendum. Await the clunky topical inserts here.

Gumpendorf, Rob doesn't have a barrister for the criminal case, and there is nothing to stop Anna seeing the witnesses for the purposes of the family law case.

I do think it's appalling that they've decided Helen should have a barrister with her own ishoos. Why could she not just have someone who knows her bloody job and gets on with it?

Sigh.

Annie, from this thread, Ursula's T-shirt seemed the only thing that might be of passing interest to me in that episode. I checked Lowfield, but nothing re T-shirts. So thanks Lynda - I presume they were for the elf migration.

Hang on a minute. Elf migration? I seem to have gathered it's something Joe cooked up?

Mmm ... We heard they'd spoken to lawyers too. Zero evidence of that in the scripts.

There's no reason why the prosecuting barrister should have any knowledge of Anna's temporary residence/stay with her mother. And presumably all correspondence would go to her chambers or be communicated via any device through instructing solicitors.

Admittedly this won't stop the SWs making it central to all further litigation. In fact, I wonder if that's where they're going - some last minute objection to Anna based on her status as the goddaughter of a relative by marriage of Helen's family.

(I remember a judge who lived and sat in a smallish town saying how glad he was of the superficial disguise provided by his full regalia.)

Anna very deliberately kept away when Pat and Henry turned up, so she is clearly taking care not to give anyone any excuse for making waves about her being in the village.

If I was in charge...:
Robb would carry on coercing and manipulating Pat and Tony until Pat gets to the end of her tether and stabs him, this time finishing him off for good.

Just, thanks. I did mean the prosecuting barrister. I'm trying to make sense of the storyline and just getting very confused.

As for the elves. I'm with Anna.

Sorry that should have said Judy not just.

TASWAS ... I forget the rest.

I am calling absolute bullshit on this Anna business. Of course she can't just be s great lawyer: she's lost a relationship through her dedication, and is also apparently traumatised by losing a case of which this is 'bringing back bad memories' ffs. Would they do a back story like this for a male barrister?

'Sensitive' and 'haunted'

Ahahah!

Mystic Bore strikes again

Perhaps a barrister on here can tell me how common 'terrible flashbacks' like this are?

Bloody hell - I've never heard such unadulterated crap.

Is this really the way they present probably the first female barrister ever in TA?

Absolute sexist bullshite cant possibly have a competent women barrister now can we!!! All these useless women letting things happen to them.

Another annoying and frustrating episode of a women wringing her hands and feeling powerless

Firstly, thank you to Rachael Reynolds for being so prompt in her postings on lowfield

Secondly, what kind of case is Anna talking about? How likely is it that the man would have been allowed back into the family home if there had been a big case like this? Could they not have pushed a divorce and restraining order?

All Helen needs is a barrister wracked with even more anxieties than she is

I believe it is TASWAMA

What a load of utter bullshit. SHL cannot possibly be SH because she is female. I actually really, really hate the SWs right now.

Nothing to add, agree with you all. So fed up, I want to stick with TA as hopeful it will get good again once this storyline fades away. But it's getting harder and harder to bother when you get rewarded with such rubbish
Thought Anna was brought in to be a strong, capable woman and it would be even better that when Rob meets his match that its a woman...Suppose we were expecting too much

Oh dear God.

Caught up from Lowfield after reading tonight's posts. Adding my thanks to Rachael Reynolds.

Can someone sum up elf migration in a sentence? I could look at Lowfield but it's mostly too depressing to read...

Elves evicted, emigrated, seeking Grundy's Field Elysium.

TASWAMA
Agree with all the comments on here
And yes AntiBoop - If matters in her previous case had reached such a stage that the man was being prosecuted in criminal proceedings then it is hardly likely he'd return to the matrimonial home with wife still there.
Although sadly it is only too credible that men do return to murder their wives after wife has left them

Yes - it was the returning to the marital home that seemed odd. - not that he would kill his ex wife

I can't comment on tonight as I LA later on. However last nights' drove me nuts. I think I counted three started-but-left-unfinished statements or conversations about the RobHel thing.

No interesting or gripping, just annoying.

Ah! I knew it was (yet another) Grundy enterprise. Over the years there have been so many - mostly cringeworthy. Remember the Deck the Halls decorations? Many many years ago, decades before Loxfest, the Grundies hosted a festival at Grange Farm, IIRC, with the usual hilarious consequences, which IDNRAA (I Do Not Recall At All).

Whole thing is a pile of bollocks. 'Allowed back in the marital home' my arse. It is like they have strung together a load of legal sounding words and hoped for the best. And 'Refusing cases' what happened to the cab-rank rule?