I hate him on sight, but our barrister is not much better.
"I think we'll get an early answer quickly but with that we'll then go back to our barrister.
The magistrate is impatient with the arguments of our barrister, dismissive of our ladies' evidence and endlessly sympathetic to the policeman.
Our barrister argued that the Met acted with an "impermissibly low threshold of tolerance" on the day which had the effect of "the suppression of a dissenting voice".
"The argument about whether or not Connor had been detained was relentless," says Sara. "It probably took our barrister about 20 minutes of careful arguing, holding up case law, and all the rest of it, for the coroner to eventually accept that he was.
That might mean making more use of the best and brightest among our younger barristers and solicitors, and less use of those legal Rolls-Royces; or paying for a single lawyer, and not a team, in court.
Justice is increasingly the preserve of the rich who can pay the hourly rates of our top barristers and solicitors, while the mass of the population, now ineligible for dramatically cut legal aid, has to accept multiple injustices because redress is too slow and expensive.
At the end of July, we went back to court on appeal and our fantastic barrister got the IPP overturned.
"We expect all of our prosecutors, including self-employed barristers who act on our behalf, to follow our guidance in these very difficult cases.
"Katrina was one of our best and brightest barristers who will be greatly missed by her colleagues and friends" Jane Needham, president of the New South Wales Bar Association, said in a statement.
