Judge Pickles’ on the misconduct of David Cocks QC as a Pupilmaster




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Judge Pickles’ commentary on the misconduct of David Cocks QC as a Pupilmaster, and a powerful and influential member of the barrister profession, impregnating and abandoning his young orphaned barrister pupil, and on the abandonment in terms of the filial humanity and affection as a father to his son as a young child.

 Wednesday April the 20th  in the Daily Sport.



David Cocks Q C Pupil Master Who Refuses to See His Son

 “Barrister David Cocks had as his pupil 22-year-old pupil.  His one-year affair with her produced a son.  For the first 14 years of his life Cocks did not see his son and he has fought every attempt by his son's mother to increase the maintenance.  Another application is now before the court. I have no sympathy for Cocks now 57 and a millionaire with two expensive homes. As a barrister and I had two women pupils and I can see how easy it would be to take unfair advantage of the situation.  Cocks did that and he should pay up to the hilt for it.”

Private Eye on David Cocks Proud Conduct (or perhaps arrogant and heartless) towards His Son Private Eye on David Cocks Conduct to His Son Private Eye exposed the vile David Cocks QC, then chair of the Criminal Bar Association.Having impregnated young barrister Felicity Hammerton, Cocks had her thrown out of chambersafter she refused an abortion. When the baby was born – a son, also called David – he denied paternity. A court recognised him as the father,however, and ordered him to support the boy.For the first 12 years, the fox-hunting QC paida princely £16.24 a week, leaving Hammerton to bring up their son in a small gardenless flat in Camden.(Cocks, by contrast, owns a 200-acre estate in Devon.) Cocks embroiled the mother and child in court proceedings even at one point Cocks shamelessly applied for her to pay his £35,000 court costs –even though he had lost the case. He refuses to see his son but enjoys a rich interaction with his adult step children much older than his own very neglected by him his own flesh and blood child at one stage telling Sir derek Spencer I couldnt care less if he dies I will never see him and noone can make me when the young baby was on a life support machine and the father david cocks drank champagne before going to his country estate to hunt and kill foxes.David Cocks Q C Human Rights Lawyer Humanity To Own Son David Cocks Q C failed Father Refused to Help Him when Sir Derek Spencer told his baby was suffering agony with every breath on a life support machine He Excluded his son from his house hearth and home since birth in the cruellest manner simply on his desire not to be blamedIf parenting sees us at our most loving,civilised and altruistic,then to fail at it is to have slipped off the bottom of the rung of the species

David Cocks Q C Human Rights Lawyer Humanity To Own Son David Cocks Q C failed Father Refused to Help Him when Sir Derek Spencer told his baby was suffering agony with every breath on a life support machine He Excluded his son from his house hearth and home since birth in the cruellest manner simply on his desire not to be blamedIf parenting sees us at our most loving,civilised and altruistic,then to fail at it is to have slipped off the bottom of the rung of the species




David Cocks Q C

  






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Old Bailey QC still refuses to see rejected son
Eminent barrister David Cocks Q C and his son whom he had disowned since birth. Now Felicity claims he is causing further heartbreak for him. As a part of the settlement Cocks agreed in court that he would see his son, who is also called David — but three years on he has still not met up with him and she feels aggrieved as it was the only reason she agreed to the settlement.
“David’s birthday is today and his father hasn’t, as usual, acknowledged it with a birthday card,” says a friend. “David, who was Robert Graves’s godson, is puzzled as to how his father can spend time with his stepchildren but not his own younger son.”
Cocks, who according to Hansard was the sixth richest prosecuting counsel in the country, earning more than £500,000 a year, and has a 200-acre estate, had gone to court in to stop making any payments for his son’s education.
For 12 years, Felicity’s son received just £16.24 a week maintenance despite Cocks’s flourishing legal career, and she struggled to bring him up on her own in a garden-less Camden flat.
Felicity tells me: “I have felt intimidated by David Cocks since my son’s birth.
“I have felt intimidated by his power and wealth and his capacity for hurting both me and his son without any semblance of remorse or conscience for our humanity or our human rights.”

Cocks was unavailable for comment.