Today, the AP had an obituary for Rumpole of the Bailey's creator John Mortimer [more about him in a prior post]. It pointed out that the barrister had handled some family law cases, something I had not read before.
According to the AP, when asked Mortimer said he preferred murder cases to matrimonial clients. His theory was that "Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable."
In the one divorce case Rumpole handled, the parties' child was using their typewriter to write fake messages from one to the other to feed discord, so they would each bribe him for his loyalty.
