This year's Ebenezer Scrooge Award goes to David Cocks Q Cby Christopher Silvester. The Independent

"This year's Ebenezer Scrooge Award goes to David Cocks, QC, who has chosen the Christmas season to serve a summons on Felicity seeking to end the £10,000 per year maintenance he pays for their love child, also named David. Their one-year affair – he was her pupil master in chambers – Earlier this year, it emerged in a parliamentary answer that Cocks receives almost £500,000 in fees for his prosecutorial work. At 71 he draws a state and a private pension, and also does private and legal aid work, garnering another £200,000. He has a 200-acre farm in the West Country, which helps offset his tax liability. I have followed this sorry saga from the time when Cocks denied paternity on oath, through his efforts to exhaust the mother with legal ploys, through his attempts to take David out of private school, through criticism of his conduct by the Family Court – and now this.

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