A Child's Voice

Minette is a mouse in The Royal Courts of Justice whose forebearsremember seeing Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century attending atCourt One. Minette watches sees hears and relates all that goes onin the family courts with the awful tragedies of people’s lives andissues especially affecting children. Minette is downcast by theaccumulation of people’s problems often caused by themselves andindeed with the behaviours of some of Her Majesty’s Judges but shehas camaraderie with the other mice in the Royal Courts of Justice aswell as the mice at the Old Bailey and the mice of the Supreme Courtwhere they especially gather for receptions with many leftoversscattered on the carpets taking as they do the number 19 bus alongThe Strand. But not all is sad for Minette knows that some of HerMajesty’s Judges are nevertheless aware and kindly regarding thevery serious responsibilities that they own.