Abigail Rolling 'Shit Lawyer'
Thu, 14 Jul
|The Old Court Room, The Flying Horse
Abigail has been chained to a radiator in the magistrates' court for almost 30 years. With misanthropic mirth she pulls back the curtain on a criminal justice system in terminal decline. Dark. Funny. Underfunded.
Time & Location
14 Jul 2022, 19:00 – 21:30
The Old Court Room, The Flying Horse, 37 Packer St, Rochdale OL16 1NJ, UK
About the event
A lawyer is raising money for her début at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Abigail Rolling is ‘Shit Lawyer’ and will be delivering misanthropic mirth, insights on life’s roulette, and explanations of why the criminal justice system south of the border is in crisis – much like its northern counterpart.
Ms Rolling has been chained to a radiator in the Magistrates’ Court for almost 30 years. The stories are true, the crisis real.
She is on a mission to expose the tragic decline of a legal system once revered as the best in the world. Through decades of underfunding and neglect, justice is being diluted and poor standards normalised.
Prisons are bulging, courts are closing, and trials can take years to be heard. The Law Society of England and Wales warns that within the next 10 years the duty solicitor will be extinct.
The media has created a populist anti-defendant line, seeking…