One of the delights I have enjoyed from writing this blog has been when old friends have contacted me as a result of something I have written: Continue reading “Another memory of Lord Denning in his old age” →

In my piece about the late Lord Griffiths, I mentioned the fact that at one time my grandfather was vicar of Blaenavon, Continue reading “My Welsh Grandfather” →

I ended my last blog on my National Service days just as my three-week posting to Tripoli came to an end. Continue reading “National Service 60 years ago: (2) Cyprus” →

I started this blog on 2^nd January 2017.

Sixty years ago today I left Famagusta on the troopship SS Dilwara Continue reading “National Service 60 years ago: (1) Egypt and Libya” →

 This is the third and final instalment of my memories of Lord Denning. Continue reading “Lord Denning and I: (3) The Final Years” →

 

In the first blog in this series I wrote a little about Lord Denning’s life and his work as a judge up to the time I first met him in the autumn of 1961. Continue reading “Lord Denning and I (2): 1962-1972” →

In this blog I mourn the death of an old friend. Continue reading “Sir Anthony Hidden” →

 

I ended my blog on Reading for the Bar in the early 1960s like this: Continue reading “Lord Denning and I: (1) The Cumberland Lodge weekends” →

 

I have been asked by Andrew Keogh (aka CrimeLineLaw) to explain what I meant in yesterday’s blog Continue reading “Place Money and the Circuits” →

 

When I started to practise at the Bar in 1964, formal advocacy training was unheard of. Continue reading “Law and Practice in the 1960s: (4) Crime (including driving offences)” →