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...I’m not big on Wordsworth, but I remembered the lines that John Mortimer’s fictional barrister Rumpole was always quoting: Shades of the prison-house begin to closeUpon the growing Boy I made my escape...
...“I don’t think the ‘Rumpole of the Bailey’ [a patrician fictional barrister] style works any more: jurors can’t relate to it. I want to come across as down to earth, and how I speak is crucial.”...
...In my final year I managed to get an agent and was allowed to leave a term early to start my first job, an episode of Rumpole of the Bailey. Who was or still is your mentor?...
...His powers of advocacy led another famous barrister, John Mortimer, to include Hutchinson as one element in the character of Rumpole of the Bailey....
...John Mortimer, the QC and creator of the television series Rumpole of the Bailey, defended Neville’s co-editors. With typical chutzpah, Neville chose to defend himself....
...So if you can’t get a ticket to see Benedict Cumberbatch doing Hamlet, you can move from the sublime to the ridiculous and listen in on BBC iPlayer to his version of Rumpole of the Bailey....
...To be Atticus Finch or Rumpole of the Bailey – the lawyer who takes on the crowd. Public school or state school? University or straight into work?...
...Patricia Hodge, 67, is a stage, film and television actor known for her roles in shows such as Rumpole of the Bailey, Jemima Shore Investigates and, most recently, Miranda....
...Life as a British criminal barrister has long been associated with glamour, drama and wealth, inspiring television series such as Silk and Rumpole of the Bailey....
...What budding Rumpole, without the luxury of wealthy parents, can afford to join the criminal bar when the financial prospects are so bleak?...
...When introducing his head of chambers, Guthrie Featherstone QC, MP, Rumpole could never recall if he was a rightwing member of a leftwing party or a leftwing member of a rightwing party....
...I am no Rumpole, but the Theft Act 1968, Section 1 (1) states that: “A person shall be guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving...
...Prospective barristers will soon have to take a test to prove their fluency in English, under plans that might raise a few eyebrows among Horace Rumpole and other famously eloquent briefs....
..."Rumpole says all the things I think," Mortimer said. "If I say it, it sounds left-wing, but if Rumpole says it, it sounds cuddly."...
...commonplace in the area as the machinery of government has been priced out and many erstwhile civic facilities have been sold, among them Horseferry Road Magistrates Court – a favourite of author John Mortimer’s Rumpole...
...Things have been pretty quiet for old Rumpole at 3 Equity Court ever since little Charlie Falconer's legal aid reforms....
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