Isabelle Westbury, who possesses a law degree, casts her expert eye over the week’s proceedings at Bristol Crown Court

Defendant: Ryan Ali works for the emergency services

The law and court favour no person and all are to be judged equally. These were the words of prosecutor Nicholas Corsellis in his opening remarks to Bristol Crown Court on Monday morning.
Criminal justice is one of the more curious aspects of English life, to which all are bound and aware, but to which only few ever become intimately acquainted. Shortly before 10am on Monday however, three of those few, Ben St...