Law Against Loneliness: 28 May

World Cup of Chambers: the FINAL

It’s the final of the World Cup of Chambers! St John’s Buildings and Pump Court Chambers are fighting it out to be crowned 2020 champion.

Who will take the coveted crown and whatever prize we can think up at the last minute?

It's a bright sunny morning – beautiful conditions for the occasion barristers dream about as young kids striding round the garden pretending to be George Carman QC: The #WorldCupofChambers???? FINAL! pic.twitter.com/VfiTyCc8B0

— The Lawyer (@TheLawyermag) May 28, 2020

Thanks especially to Osborne Clarke for scrambling their choir at short notice for the pre-match anthem.

AND HERE WE GO! THE #WORLDCUPOFCHAMBERS???? FINAL! It's @PumpCourt ???? @SJBnews

— The Lawyer (@TheLawyermag) May 28, 2020

You can also vote in the third-place play-off and for which Inn of Court is best, because we like to stoke trouble.

There is of course another burning #WorldCupofChambers???? question that we can't possibly ignore before the grand final itself. Which Inn of Court is best: @lincolnsinn, @TheInnerTemple, @middletemple or @HonSocGraysInn? Seven-day poll. Good luck.

— The Lawyer (@TheLawyermag) May 28, 2020

The Lawyer Fringe Festival

The Dark Room

YOU AWAKE TO FIND YOURSELF IN A DARK ROOM!

The live experience of The Dark Room is the best: manic dungeon master John Robertson affectionately torturing members of the audience as they attempt to do the (almost) impossible: escape the Dark Room. If that sounds awful, it’s not – in fact as audience participation goes it’s about the gentlest you can get because you are sitting in the dark, merely the latest player of an unwinnable game.

The online game lacks the wildcard of audience interaction but is still pleasingly stupid. If you’re a fan of surrealist humour or 80s text-based video games you can buy it here.

Previously: Will Seaward | Deadlocked | Jollyboat

Dog of the Day

Helen Shay, an in-house counsel at the University of York, introduces us to Tig, “who harbours legal aspirations with his fixed feline cross-examining stare. However, you’ll see from his motto he’s not really a team player (even if he can misquote Shakespeare). He also tends to spend a lot of time chasing his tail.  He tries to hide his tracks but subtlety is not his strong point.”

Natalie Thomas of recruitment company TAP Search writes: “This is Leeloo, we named her after one of our favourite characters from the film The Fifth Element. She lives by the quote: ‘Me Fifth Element – supreme being. Me protect you.’ And she certainly does!”

The Lawyer Listens

US indie-folk band The Lumineers have usually written songs about duress and topics such as addiction and heartbreak, but always in a story-telling and tender way. Their most recent albums, III and Cleopatra, follow women on paths of life that lead to love and loss, too. The song Sleep on The Floor is somewhat one of their cheeriest and most popular tunes. It speaks of a person on the journey of leaving their hometown and on to a big city, and the realisation of one’s dreams.

The video is part of The Ballad of Cleopatra, a compilation and telling of the stories behind the songs Ophelia, Cleopatra, Sleep on the Floor, Angela and My Eyes, all from the album Cleopatra. -Ana de Liz