Hints and tips:
...“Right, you crack on with the parklets,” Helen Ball, the council’s clerk or chief executive, concludes breezily, “and I’ll sort the trees out.”...
...He retired from the company in 2008, receiving a $10m payout....
...A recent case in point concerned a retired doctor who had been falsely accused of being part of a paedophile ring....
...When the money comes in, the clerks [who find work for barristers] take their cut, some goes away for tax and the rest will get transferred to you....
...Later he said — apparently in jest — on Twitter: “Retired Lords can stand for the Commons! Any seats available?”...
...Michael Mansfield and Geoffrey Robertson are perhaps their closest equivalents; but the last of the legendary QCs was Jeremy Hutchinson, who celebrated his 100th birthday this year....
...After Rehnquist retired, Cruz asked his successor, John Roberts, if he could wear his boots....
...It is a job traditionally undertaken by a retired military man. This Black Rod seems both competent and amiable, the very model of a modern lieutenant-general....
...The retired clerk says he has never felt himself to be British, but he admits to a “cultural schizophrenia” in his attitude to Ireland’s former colonial master, ejected from the south by bloody insurrection...
...After dismissing Mr Bell, the judge began signing off on uncontested home repossession cases as fast as his clerk could pile up the folders, sometimes less than a minute per file....
...He took charge of all investment management when Mr Artus retired in 1987 and wielded huge power in the City to influence corporate governance and strategy....
...His first chart shows the party losing votes among social classes ABC1: professionals, managers, clerks and administrators....
...We're retaining the orders of the Bath and of St Michael and St George, so they still get their gongs. Appleby: It's over pensions, Minister....
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