Benchmark : life, laughter and the law / Oliver Popplewell.

London : I B Tauris, 2003.

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Popplewell Oliver -- Sir, -- 1927-.

Judges -- Biography.

Legal biography.

Foreword / Stephen Fry

Prelude : I'll move it, Gun'nor

1. Childhood

2. Growing up

3. National service

4. University

5. Cambridge cricket

6. Family and friends

7. First steps at the Bar

8. Bradford

9. Jonathan Aitken

10. A legal miscellany

11. Employment Appeal Tribunal

12. Murder

13. Parole

14. The MCC and the Bailey affair

15. Imran Khan and Barry Wood

16. Lottery at Lords and pie in the sky

17. Reflections.

Includes index.

186064886X

xiii, 313 p. : ill.