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If you are not a Recorder already, I would encourage you all to think about applying to become one as perhaps the first rung on the judicial ladder. Concluding Remarks 24. All that remains for me to say is to thank you again for the work that you do in our criminal courts. I wish you well and hope that you enjoy the rest of this Conference. 25. Let me end as I began with the late great Jeremy Hutchinson. In the book Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories by Thomas Grant (2015), in the post- script written by Jeremy Hutchinson himself, he said: “No one becomes a criminal barrister to make large sums of money. A criminal practice has always been the least well paid and of the lowest status at the Bar. Yet in my opinion the rewards are of the greatest. You practise in circumstances that seriously affect your fellow human beings in their personal and everyday lives. Your clients are of every kind, privileged or deprived, bewildered and weak, or street-wise and strong. … You are privileged in your work; privileged because, first, it falls to you to uphold at all times the principles of justice and the rule of law, and, second, unreservedly to uphold the interests of your client whose case becomes yours. You share for a short time the intimate life of a person in extremis and stripped bare whose reputation, livelihood or liberty have been placed in your hands.” 2 HHJ Anuja Dhir QC. Draft 27 November 2017 09:45 Page 9