The file arrived after the cause list had closed. Counsel isolated a single defect: the warrant recited a section that the complaint did not support. The stay was narrow, time-bound, and enough to bring the accused to court on a weekday. This is the kind of story chambers tells because the remedy was modest and the record was clean — not because the matter was famous.
The affidavits were about school runs and medical cards, not about who shouted last. The court treated welfare as a timetable, not a slogan.
Incorporation work is unglamorous until a name is blocked. We reconstructed the timeline of applications and put a consent letter in the form the registrar would actually stamp.
We did not argue that the police were villains. We argued that the Code’s sequence for recording a confession is the sequence, and that a gap in that sequence is a legal gap.
