Bad Day At The Office

After an intense and deeply unpleasant hearing, despite the positive nature of the proceedings, the Judge managed to bring the IRH forward by a week, thus bringing most of the agreed directions forward by the same. It was difficult to understand what the problem was that the Judge had with the local authority, he kept referring to paragraph 7 of the last order, this is merely the timetable for the child as it was then and does not seem to warrant the severity of his spleen. The Judge almost held me in contempt of court for trying to explain why the advocates at the contested ICO were not the advocates in front of him at this hearing, often breaking into what I can only describe as low level screaming followed by mumbled gesticulating. Despite my best efforts and pleasantries, the Judge seemed unable to look me in the eye as he tore strips off me for not having e-mailed the solicitor with conduct's case summary and draft order two days prior. As we went through the order I was made to read out the Judge’s dictation like a badly behaved schoolboy. I was told to speak up on several occasions despite practically shouting, the Judge however chose himself to mumble into his bench. I wondered whether the Judge may suffer from Aspergers or OCD because nothing could warrant such a level of public and unnecessary bullying, such of the like I have not experienced for over a decade in this profession.