Benchmark
Life, Laughter and the Law
Benchmark
Life, Laughter and the Law
Description
Sir Oliver Popplewella's career goes a long way to explode myths and to show what judges are really like: impartial, skilled in the law, above party politics certainly, but essentially human. He was certainly born into a comfortable middle-class family, but his upbringing was (to quote from Stephen Frya's Foreword to this book) "more Betjeman Metroland than Wodehouse Mayfaira". Sir Oliver was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple and a successful career at the junior bar and on the Oxford and Midland Circuit culminated in his becoming a QC and his subsequent elevation to the High Court Bench. Various high profile cases followed involving public figures - Jonathan Aitken, Lawrence Dallaglio, the England rugby captain, or the sprinter Linford Christie in Christie v McVicar, the editor of Spike magazine - and the public enquiry into the tragic fire at the Bradford City football ground. This autobiography is an absorbing portrait of the career of one of England's most distinguished lawyers, recounted in a witty, intelligent and effortlessly engaging style.
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Stephen Fry
Prelude: 'I'll Move it, Guv'nor'
1. Childhood
2. Growing Up
3. National Service
4. University
5. Cambridge Cricket
6. Family and Friends
7. First Steps at the Bar
8. Bradford
9. Jonathan Aiken
10. A Legal Miscellany
11. Employment Appeal Tribunal
12. Murder
13. Parole
14. The MCC and the Bailey Affair
15. Imran Khan and Barry Wood
16. Lottery at Lords and 'Pie in the Sky'
17. Reflections
Product details
| Published | 16 Mar 2009 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 328 |
| ISBN | 9780755630141 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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