Behind the scenes at the Patents Court
16 February 2012
Emma Barraclough, London
An electric car, lunch at the Inn and excitement at the Applications Court - a day in the life of England & Wales High Court judge Mr Justice Arnold
I’m not a cycling judge. I drive to work – I’m currently driving a G-wiz which is quite fun. I live in Islington [in London] and an electric car works extremely well for shuttling back and forth between home and first the Royal Courts of Justice and now the Rolls Buildings. It’s green and it’s cheap. I always felt rather guilty driving to work given that it’s a short distance so it does salve one’s conscience. It’s actually not that high-tech for an IP judge. It’s really just a souped-up golf buggy.
I tend to get in between 8 and 8.15. Then I do what I expect most office workers do; I sit down and see what emails have arrived since I was last in front of my computer. Some emails come direct and some people communicate through my clerk and she will...
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