Paper Monitor
15:40 UK time, Thursday, 20 December 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Rounds ups of the year are the kind of thing Private Eye bylines Phil Space. But today one review of the year, fills Paper Monitor with seasonal mirth.
The Times' legal section through the court highlights of the year.
Least Philosophical and Most Unedifying Evidence of the Year goes to QPR footballer Anton Ferdinand for telling Westminster Crown Court that John Terry had "called me a [expletive deleted], and I called him a [expletive deleted] back. And he gave me a gesture as if to say my breath smelled. I said to him, 'How can you call me a [expletive deleted]? You shagged your team-mate's missus, you're a [expletive deleted].'"
Harry Redknapp is Most Compelling Witness of the Year for telling a jury at his tax evasion trial that he was too busy "thinking about who was marking David Beckham" to pay attention to a form he signed transferring money to a Monaco bank account.
Least Appropriate Sentence of 2012 was given by a judge in Florida to a husband who had assaulted his wife after an argument. He ordered the man to buy his wife flowers, take her to dinner and then bowling. A defence attorney then asked the judge, "Does he have to let her win?"
Legal Cartoon of the Year is won by Mike Twohy in the New Yorker. A defence attorney bounds into a defendant's cell: "I've heard mitigating things about you!"
That's all folks.
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