Muck, silk and socialism : recollections of a left-wing Queen's Counsel/ John Platts-Mills.

Wedmore (Som) : Paper Publ, 2002.

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Platts-Mills, John.

Legal reminiscences.

Legal biography.

Lawyers -- Biography.

Ch 1. Childhood

Ch 2. New Zealand education

Ch 3. Starting at Oxford

Ch 4. Oxford ends

Ch 5. Pupillage

Ch 6. First law cases

Ch 7. Clive

Ch 8. Marriage

Ch 9. Assington

Ch 10. War years

Ch 11. Yorkshire main

Ch 12. 1945 election

Ch 13. Starting in Parliament

Ch 14. First visit to Russia

Ch 15. Colonialism etc

Ch 16. Post-war at the Bar

Ch 17. Further policy criticisms

Ch 18. Visits to Romania and Prague

Ch 19. Nenni telegram and expulsion

Ch 20. Start of the cold war

Ch 21. End of Parliamentary career

Ch 22. Peace movement

Ch 23. New Zealand trip 1951

Ch 24. Stalinism

Ch 25. Friendship societies

Ch 26. 1950's law

Ch 27. Taking silk

Ch 28. British Guiana

Ch 29. Iraq and Tunisia

Ch 30. Vietnam and Guinea

Ch 31. South Africa

Ch 32. Krays

Ch 33. Kodak and return to the Labour Party

Ch 34. Ulster and prison reform

Ch 35. Sewell and murders

Ch 36. Aden and North Africa

Ch 37. Shrewsbury pickets and Chile Ch 38. 1976: Three Commonwealth capital cases

Ch 39. Establishment attitudes; arrest in Czechoslovakia

Ch 40. Zambian justice; Denning and other denizens

Ch 41. Lebanon; the miners' strike

Ch 42. Gaddafi; Lebanon

Ch 43. Learn to say jamahariya

Ch 44. Expropriation in Ghana

Ch 45. More of Libya; Terry Pattison

Ch 46. A Touch of family.

Includes index.

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