How the world of a top property lawyer can change when he makes the jump from the bar to the bench!
At the bar, Kim Lewison QC, as deputy head of Falcon Chambers, tackled a daily diet weighty property law.
Now, at a relatively early stage in his new role, he’s hit the national headlines with his judgment on a distinctly non-property wrangle. He was called on to decide a copyright battle over a remix of the Ant’ill Mob’s 2001 garage hit Burning – well it is intellectual property!
But it had his lordship, who can get his mind round complex lease clauses and property law provisions that lesser mortals would find incomprehensible, stumped. In the end he confessed that, for practical purposes, he considered the language of rap “a foreign language”.
During his judgment, he lamented on “the faintly surreal experience of three gentlemen in horsehair wigs examining the meaning of such phrases as ‘mish mish man’ and ‘shizzle my nizzle’”.
