A barrister has spoken out about court security after a fight broke out between around 15 people in the coroner’s court where he was acting last week.

Andrew Cousins of 7 Harrington Street in Liverpool said the incident “brought home to me, in very sharp reality, the pressure and strain on our court security”.

He said: “Stood there in the courtroom, avoiding being caught up in the brawl, and avoiding being hit by the court furniture being thrown, I was confronted with the stark reality of how vulnerable we can be in a courtroom.”

The barrister stressed that neither he nor the judge or other court personnel were the target of the brawl, which was between two sides of a family and saw them “chucking anything not nailed down”, he recalled. There were no injuries.

“All of the court staff a

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