Word for the Week

Soul Food for Overworked Lawyers

Week beginning: 26th November, 2023 | By HHJ David Turner KC | London

Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labour in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain. In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat – for he grants sleep to those he loves'.

Psalm 127: 1-2 (NIV)

Long hours are our badge of honour in the law and, yes, our earnings mean most of us eat well!

The Psalmist reminds us that if all our legal achievements lack God's hand of favour, they will prove themselves only transient or ephemeral. Solid and la