{"id":145618,"date":"2025-05-31T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145618\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:00:17","slug":"scantily-clad-barrister-who-appeared-at-west-midlands-court-hearing-in-no-trousers-gets-stern-telling-off-from-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145618\/","title":{"rendered":"Scantily-clad barrister who appeared at West Midlands court hearing in no trousers gets stern telling-off from judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shrewsbury Crown Court<\/a> received a shock when the lawyer, who joined via video link, walked into shot in a state of undress.<\/p>\n<p>When the barrister, who is not a regular face at the county\u2019s main justice centre, was initially linked in by the clerk, all that could be seen on his screen was a messy bedroom while loud background noise pumped into the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is he?\u201d Recorder Julian Taylor gruffly asked, appearing to be losing patience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you see and hear the court?\u201d the clerk repeatedly asked, before the scantily-clad lawyer lurched into view from the left-hand side of the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shrewsbury Crown Court received a shock when the lawyer, who joined via video link, walked into shot in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-145618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114599980217660212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}