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.
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.
About the Author
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, Hallmark: A Judge's Life at Oxford , is also published by I.B.Tauris.
Reviews
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 are not too pompous to recall the time they drank the last of the milk during rationing.' Rachel Johnson, 'The Sunday Times'.
Book Information
ISBN 9781845119324
Author Oliver Popplewell
Format Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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.
About the Author
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, Hallmark: A Judge's Life at Oxford , is also published by I.B.Tauris.
Reviews
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 are not too pompous to recall the time they drank the last of the milk during rationing.' Rachel Johnson, 'The Sunday Times'.
Book Information
ISBN 9781845119324
Author Oliver Popplewell
Format Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
