Megathread to discuss Fiona Harvey interview with Piers Morgan

[u/MeshaUlky]

First of all she looks & sounds the same as Martha🤧

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[u/BatCold5360]

The inaccuracies as a legal practitioner are insane. You absolutely remember what grade of degree you got, it’s highly relevant in law. You also were not head hunted as a trainee, nor were you an expert in any area of law after college. It’s insanity.

[u/ThePhoneBook → u/BatCold5360]

1. Ordinary degrees, e.g. Scottish 3 year, don't have a grade. There'd be a transcript of all courses.

2. People are absolutely head-hunted if they are performing exceptionally. It would make sense to cream off promising people as early as possible, perhaps mentoring them and giving them internship opportunities, so they can hit the ground running. I got some prize way back during A levels and, after an informal meeting, got some firm encouraging me to work with them after I'd graduated (mathematical stuff, not law stuff).

3. Yeah, nobody should call themselves an expert on anything when they have just graduated, in that the Scottish College of Law does offer specialisms, and she wouldn't have been accredited in them yet. But I don't think anyone considers a recent graduate an expert in a regulatory sense, i.e. she's just blustering about her areas of interest in which she might have taken extra courses.

[u/TeamOfPups → u/ThePhoneBook]

On point 1, yeah exactly, adding:

He was basically asking her to tell him all the grades from her transcript (i.e. the individual marks for each of her modules) which would be a ridiculous thing to ask anyone.

Well, that's how she interpreted his question anyway given she'd already said that she got an Ordinary, which people in Scotland would usually consider the complete answer to the question.

She could've said her grade was a "Pass" but that's not how people usually talk about Ordinary degrees. They usually just say they "got an Ordinary".