Playing off the roof and other stories : a patchwork of memories / Simon Brown.
Publisher: London : Marble Hill, 2020Description: 243 pages : colour illustrations.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781527254268.Other title: Playing off the roof & other stories.Note: Gift: Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood.Subject(s): Brown, Simon Denis, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, 1937-
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords -- Biography | Judges -- Great Britain -- Biography | Lawyers -- Great Britain -- Biography | Law -- AnecdotesDDC classification: 920 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 920 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Issued | 09/03/2023 | 018403 |
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| 920 BRO Behind the black door / | 920 BRO My life, our times / | 920 BRO Red notice : | 920 BRO Playing off the roof and other stories : a patchwork of memories / | 920 BRO Second helpings / | 920 BRO Playing off the roof and other stories : a patchwork of memories / | 920 BRO Second helpings / |
Inscribed by the author: "To the House of Lords Library with gratitude for the unstinting help received over the years from all their wonderful staff."
Early years : nostalgia on stilts -- My mother -- My father -- My brother Malcolm -- School life -- National service -- My Oxford interview -- An Oxford tea party -- Oxford : abandoning history for law -- Early years at the bar -- Forensic adventures abroad -- A Swiss new year -- Treasury devil : part one -- My wife & children -- Treasury devil : part two -- The High Court bench -- High Court judge on circuit -- Golf : rather more than eighteen holes -- My first murder & other circuit trials -- Maxwell v Private Eye -- Intelligence agencies -- Foreign judicial gatherings -- Court of Appeal : part one -- Selection panels -- Court of Appeal : part two -- Law Lords : part one -- Privy Council appeals -- Law lords : part two -- Supreme Court -- The London clinic -- Crossbencher -- A glance ahead -- Closing thoughts -- Annex : Strasbourg Lecture (2012).
Gift: Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood.