The Business Profile: Sharp-Dressing Steven Flies As High As Any Legal Eagle There Are Many People with Mental Disabilities Who End Up in the Criminal Justice System and Shouldn't Be There. I Work Very Hard to Get Such People Out of the Criminal Justice System and If That's Not Possible I Try and Make Sure They're Dealt with in Such a Way They Don't Return There ; Martin Faint Talks to Criminal Lawyer Steven Jonas Who Is President of Birmingham Law Society

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As he darts in and out of the law courts Steven Jonas can be easily identified by the fine and rare butterfly-like appendage attached to his neck.

Brushing against his lower chin, the hand painted bow-tie sits there, as if perched just above his blue, subtly striped three- piece suit.

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The Business Profile: Sharp-Dressing Steven Flies As High As Any Legal Eagle There Are Many People with Mental Disabilities Who End Up in the Criminal Justice System and Shouldn't Be There. I Work Very Hard to Get Such People Out of the Criminal Justice System and If That's Not Possible I Try and Make Sure They're Dealt with in Such a Way They Don't Return There ; Martin Faint Talks to Criminal Lawyer Steven Jonas Who Is President of Birmingham Law Society

As with the plumage of certain birds, and indeed butterflies, the look is deliberately designed to astonish, admits Steven Jonas, criminal defence solicitor and president of The Birmingham Law Society.

'The three-piece suit was a conscious decision to convey formality,' he says, confessing to his sartorial strategy amid deep piles of papers and boxes when cross-examined by The Birmingham Post.

'And the bow tie was originally a way of getting magistrates to pause when I was addressing them, so they would listen to what I was say...

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