Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps?

Re:Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'count... by dmurray on Friday March 29, 2024 @06:58AM (#39862589)

Surely it's correct to call him QC when writing about an event in 1986, but if it were in the present "Geoffrey Robertson KC wrote a recent memoir about his defence of Boggs...". This isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia style guide, as far as I can see, but for example the article on Princess Diana lists "spouse: Charles, Prince of Wales (later Charles III)".

Transgenderism follows the opposite convention: once you transition to a new name and gender, you do so retroactively and all existing publications about you become dated, inaccurate and offensive. But I think that's the exception here in normal writing style.

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Re:Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'count... by defrost on Friday March 29, 2024 @07:09AM (#39862653)

I dare say, I wasn't sure how the QC | KC accolade was treated, but that does pass the sensible test.

I note that:

    After being turned down by several leading lawyers, Dennis and Anderson secured the services of barrister and writer John Mortimer, QC (creator of the Rumpole of the Bailey series) who was assisted by his Australian-born junior counsel Geoffrey Robertson; Neville chose to represent himself. At the opening of the trial in June 1971 Mortimer stated that "... [the] case stands at the crossroads of our liberty, at the boundaries of our freedom to think and draw and write what we please".

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(magazine)

is on the money, Mortimer was a QC at the time (1971) and Robertson was yet to be appointed (1988).

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