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25 Jul 2007, 3:50 pm
A very short list of must-read books for the budding criminal defense lawyer (just those that pop into my head right now)"To Kill a Mockingbird" (Harper Lee)"Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae" (Steven Pressfield)"Wilkes: His Life and Crimes" (Winston Schoonover [Charles Sevilla])"The First Rumpole Omnibus (Rumpole)" (John Mortimer)"Being Peace" (Thich Nhat Hanh)"The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society… [read post]
14 May 2014, 12:31 am by Tim Kevan
Horace Rumpole – cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients – often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. [read post]
14 May 2014, 12:30 am by Tim Kevan
Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 4:42 am by Tim Kevan
Horace Rumpole – cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients – often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 4:43 am by Tim Kevan
Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 5:53 am by steve cornforth blog
I first read John Mortimer’s finest in about 1980 when I was a very new lawyer who avoided criminal law like a virus. [read post]
8 Apr 2013, 11:30 am by Charon QC
Stampedes when struck down with kneejerkitis vulgaris As John Mortimer QC once observed… people should be offended three times a week and twice on Sundays Onwards and upwards… [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 8:32 am
Rumpole of the Bailey was a delightful British television series based on the life and courtroom exploits of John Mortimer's fictional curmudgeonly barrister, Horace Rumpole. [read post]
8 Apr 2013, 11:30 am by Charon QC
Stampedes when struck down with kneejerkitis vulgaris As John Mortimer QC once observed… people should be offended three times a week and twice on Sundays Onwards and upwards… [read post]
27 Dec 2009, 10:32 am
[a] hybrid between...John Mortimer...infused with a feel of James Herriot. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 9:53 pm by Rich Cassidy
”  If you don’t know it, you can view a sample from the pilot episode The screenplays were written by Sir John Mortimer, and Leo McKern played Horace Rumpole. [read post]
26 Jul 2009, 8:11 pm
(By Marie-Louise Mortimer)   I can feel Spring approaching in Melbourne. [read post]
21 Aug 2006, 4:32 pm
   But runners up are the original Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer, and Ball Four by Jim Bouton. 5. [read post]
10 Aug 2009, 4:30 am
.'An upper class reality show'Pupil-to-be Thom Dyke reviews blog-turned-novel ‘BabyBarista and The Art of War'John Mortimer once described the process of undertaking pupillage as one of life's "splendid miseries". [read post]
23 Sep 2007, 3:35 am
Apparently Sir John Mortimer QC liked to be be spanked and wield a hairbrush from time to time. [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 12:14 pm
" Tim follows in a tradition of barristers writing legal comedy including Henry Cecil, Clive Coleman and the great John Mortimer and his famous Rumpole of the Bailey series. [read post]
3 Aug 2009, 9:06 am
Plotting his way around the intrigues of a fictional set of Chambers, BabyB manipulates the hopes and fears of his rivals in an effort to win the golden chalice at the end of pupillage - a tenancy.Tim Kevan's view of the Bar is far more worldly than that of John Mortimer or Caro Fraser. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 3:50 pm
The Stored Energy Center also is negotiating a potential lease with another Dallas County landowner, John Mortimer, but the two sides have yet to reach an agreement. [read post]