Blade notes, with considerable interest, that steamy scribe Deidre Dare has elected to sue her former employer, Allen & Overy. Readers will recall that Dare, author of poems such as ‘Chinese Frogs’, ‘Ethereal Conversations III’ and ‘A Correspondence’ as well as a tome entitled Expat, was given the heave-ho by A&O back on 30 January. The firm felt that Dare’s erotic fiction, which she had taken to publishing on her website, was not compatible with her role as a solicitor.
Dare has brought proceedings in the UK and, according to Legal Blog Watch, is seeking damages of £3.45m. According to this post from Above the Law, there is more to her dismissal than meets the eye, and thus a lot more to look forward to in her claim than the average rather prosaic employment dispute.
Indeed, some observers are eagerly anticipating even more of what the Mirror describe as Expat’s “sordid details of drug taking, binge drinking and sex shows involving donkeys and dwarves”, since, if the case ever reaches court, reporters will be free to narrate each and every one of Dare’s allegations, not to mention disclose with whom she may have enjoyed them, so long as they do so fairly, accurately and contemporaneously.
Meanwhile, we leave you with salutary words from Dare’s poem ‘Manifesto’:
My life must be allowed its ebb, its flow;
This is the only true that that I know.
The tides of that life are in my sole care,
They are, to me, a personal affair.
(Ed’s Note: Did Dare really write ‘that’ twice in the second line, above? Then there’s another one in the third line. What is going on here? Is she a member of Very Bad Poetry.com?)
Image courtesy of Bitter Lawyer.
