Court lawyers have been ordered to smarten up after several dropped in on remote hearings wearing leisurewear, including some from their car.
Legal eagles attending formal court proceedings are required to dress accordingly – but standards slipped during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the President of the High Court Mary Irvine.
She was so alarmed that she has issued a strongly-worded letter to solicitors and barristers, instructing them to “dress in business attire which is suitably formal for a court setting” and attendance from a car “is not acceptable”.
