Tales from No.9 Ice House Street

Contents

Contents Foreword vii Acknowledgements xi PART ONE 1 Introduction 3 1 Reminiscences of a Crown Counsel 7 2 The Start of a New Life 23 3 Room 404, No. 9 Ice House Street 29 4 More Selections from Album of Memories 41 5 Room 711B: The Last Episode 55 PART TWO 67 1 The Case of Law Or and the Misreported Abortion Trial 69 2 The Case of the American Gangster Who Bribed the Jury 83 to Convict Him 3 The Case of the Queen’s Counsel Who Was a Gentleman 87 4 The Case of the Murder Trial without the Corpus Delicti 89 (Meaning Dead Body) vi CONTENTS 5 The Case of the Eye-Blinking Barrister 95 6 The Case of the Young Man Who Impersonated 99 a Police Officer 7 The Case of the Twelve £1 Million Cheques 105 8 The Case of the Ruptured Kidney 107 9 The Case of the Defendant with High Cheekbones 125 10 The Case of the Foreign Litigant Who Wisely Refrained 127 from Bribing the Trial Judge 11 The Case of the Solicitor Who Was Convicted of an 129 Offence Not Known to Law 12 The Case of the Court Interpreter Who Loved to Show 145 off His Knowledge of English Index 149 ...