THE TROUBLE WITH lawyers’ jokes, said the wag, is that lawyers don’t find them funny, and no one else thinks they are jokes.
Now, this is not entirely the fault of lawyers, who have to contend with modern public life, which is as humourless as it is preachy (I note, without comment, that the “Legal Humour” section of Wildy & Sons’ website includes Geoffrey Robertson KC’s memoirs as well as a book by The Secret Barrister).
But it cannot be denied that legal humour, at
