Editor’s note: The daily grind of the court, its hits, its misses, the momentary celebrations of justice and the exasperating days where fate of life and liberty seems bleak might sometimes be a little alienating, for those of us hustling on the corridors, or researching, reporting on it. It might also not be fully reflective of the complexity of what the courts represent to those who work, hustle, worry and even laugh within the life world of these Kafkaesque institutions. To try to humanise our experience of the law, I think is a beautiful thing, and few things allow that capability, that lens of humility as satire. Abiha is a wonderful writer and thinker. She has often told us that she is an advocate on record (let’s always remember that) by day, and a satirist by evening, and it’s wonderful that her ruminations may find a space through this new column - ‘The Bitter Brief’. Thankfully, (and inevitably), there will be more of her!
