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Benchmark: Life, Laughter and the Law
Oliver Popplewell
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Description for Benchmark: Life, Laughter and the Law
Paperback. Prior to his retirement, the Honourable Sir Oliver Popplewell was a distinguished High Court judge for nearly twenty years and was involved in a number of celebrated cases over the course of his long career. This autobiography presents a portrait of the career of Popplewell, one of England's most distinguished lawyers. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGA; LN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 450.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845119324
SKU
V9781845119324
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About Oliver Popplewell
Prior to his retirement, the Honorable Sir Oliver Popplewell was a distinguished High Court judge for nearly twenty years and was involved in a number of celebrated cases over the course of his long career. He subsequently returned to university to take a degree in PPE at Harris Manchester College as Oxford's oldest undergraduate. The second volume of his memoirs, ... Read more
Reviews for Benchmark: Life, Laughter and the Law
A delightful book. Here is a life of integrity, intelligence, decency, diligence and public service retold in a clear and self-deprecating style that captures the reader from the last paragraph to the last. From the Foreword by Stephen Fry. 'I commend Benchmark to anyone who likes to read of distinguished men who lead honest and interesting times, but ... Read more