Public interest does not always mean the public are interested.

It happens quite often; the public rallies in unified indignation about some ostensible shortcoming of the justice system. It might be the sentence in a case, about which, they don't know all the facts. It might be a line of questioning. It might just be the outrage du jour.

The latest we find ourselves on the receiving end of, is the appeal of the indefinite life sentence handed to Steven Hunter who was convicted of his second murder. Our firm, including lawyers and admin staff, is in the direct line of fire on this one for acting on behalf of the applicant. Personally, I regard anyone who takes to abusing a young woman on our reception as pretty piss-weak.

We're not strangers to this effect. There are cases you walk into with your eyes open. You know that you will be abused for acting for a person. You make a considered and conscious decision to do so.