The Middle Templar

The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Issue 52 Michaelmas 2012 Middle Temple Officers 2012 Introduction Treasurer The Rt Hon The Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony After a year in post as Under Treasurer, it strikes me that two of the key qualities that Deputy Treasurer characterise Middle Temple are its open- Christopher Symons QC mindedness and its adaptability. This issue of The Middle Templar demonstrates these Deputy Treasurer Elect qualities in abundance: in 2012, the Library The Rt Hon The Lord Judge, hosted a Victorian banquet; Hall became a Lord Chief Justice theatre in the round; and Fountain Court was transformed into a Belgian Cycling Lent Reader Paradise. Like other ancient organisations – and indeed the profession Marilynne Morgan CB we represent – we will survive and thrive if we are able to adapt to face new challenges, and we have certainly shown this year that we Autumn Reader can metamorphose with the requirements of the day. Michael Crystal QC The Inn's willingness to adapt has shown itself of late not only by the Director of transformation of its physical space, but also by its ability to be self- Middle Temple Advocacy critical and open to new ways of thinking. The current review of our Derek Wood CBE QC governance, with its proposals to sharpen our focus and put greater emphasis on our core purposes, effective decision-making and Master of the Archive planning for the future, provides a good example of this. Michael Ashe QC Another prompt for serious reflection has been the sweeping review Masters of the Garden of legal education and training, currently being carried out by the legal regulators of England and Wales. As education is right at the heart Stephen Lloyd Esq The Hon Mrs Justice Judith Parker of the Inn and one of the core purposes expressed by our Charter, this review has a very special significance. Some have voiced pessimism, since the review has raised questions about the independence of the Master of the House Bar itself; but the process has in fact provided a useful backdrop to Anthony Boswood QC our thinking about the professional development needs of our members and the range of courses we might offer in future – both Master of the Moots pre- and post-Call. In this context, we have recently carried out our Richard Wilmot-Smith QC first members' survey to find out what Middle Templars would like from their Inn. We had an excellent response on subjects as diverse Master of the Music as training, library, and catering provision, and we look forward to Sir Stanley Burnton using the feedback to help us develop our member services in future.

Master of the Revels Finally, I would like to thank the editor of The Middle Templar, His Honour Peter Cowell Kristine McGlothlin, for creating such a fine bumper edition of our publication in the year we celebrate London 2012. It was an Olympian Master of the Silver task, fit for an Olympic year. I hope you enjoy the contents. The Hon Mr Justice Ian Burnett Catherine Quinn Under Treasurer The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Ashley Building, Middle Temple Lane

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Contents

2 Treasurer’s Foreword 29 God Save the Queen 45 The Young Bar

5 Charles Dickens 30 Temple Diamond Jubilee 46 The Plight of the Bar Student and the Middle Temple Celebration 47 Pupillage Reform 6 The Trial of Bardell v Pickwick 34 The Best of Britain 48 Manicules, Drôleries and Marginalia 8 Domus 35 Dare to Dream

50 Book Reviews: 10 Opening of the Ashley Building 36 Belgium House at the Temple Smith and Hogan Saving Nelson Mandela 12 Adopted by an American Inn 37 After the warm up... The Paralympics The Serpent’s Head 14 Postcard from Japan 38 Middle Temple Olympian 54 350th Anniversary of the Book Arnold Strode-Jackson of Common Prayer 15 Deputy Treasurer

39 The Molyneux Globes 56 Only a Few More Stops to Go: 16 World Bar Conference at the British Museum Organ Fund Appeal

18 New Masters of the Bench 40 The Judgement of Solomon 58 Richard Bere: Martyr and Middle Templar 25 Book Review: 42 Autumn Reading Expanding the Horizons 61 Beds and Bulbs 43 Middle Temple 26 A Tale of Three Royal Portraits Women’s Forum 62 Shades of Gray

28 Thames River Pageant 44 Mind the Gap 64 Forthcoming Events T REASURER’ S F OREWORD Foreword by Master Treasurer

became a member of the Inn as not allow me to thank them all by by saying how brilliant they all are. I recently as 19 November 1962, name, but I would like to mention will however say that, although I have Inearly 50 years ago, and I was specifically Catherine Quinn (the been a party to many judicial decisions Called to the Bar in July 1965. I do not Under Treasurer), Christa Richmond (of no doubt variable merit), the only have any recollection of being Called. (Education), Colin Davidson (Catering good decision to which I have been a I do not even remember if my parents and Marketing), Ian Garwood (Estates), party in the last 18 months or so is the were present. It was certainly not the Andrew Hopkin (Finance) and Kristine decision to invite Catherine to become family affair that it is today. All that is McGlothlin, who is Head of Bench our Under Treasurer. She has been a a very long time ago and is no more Administration and tells me what to breath of fresh air from the start and has than a dim and distant memory. think (or more importantly what not to applied her considerable intellect, This year, 2012, has been by far the think) and when to think it (or not to common sense and management skills most enjoyable I have spent in the Inn. think it). Although there are hundreds to the way the Inn is managed now and I am ashamed to say that when my year of Benchers and many do a splendid to the way in which it should be as Treasurer began at a splendid party job, and in particular never say no if managed in the future. in January I was disgracefully ignorant the Treasurer asks them to do To this end, the Under Treasurer and about the way the Inn operates. Also, I something on behalf of the Inn, the Inn Master Paul Jenkins (aka the Treasury did not realise how wonderfully the Inn could not operate at all without its staff Solicitor) were asked to conduct a is served by its staff. I would like to and, in particular without their leaders. review of what has been called the begin by thanking them. Space does I will not embarrass them individually Governance of the Inn. They recommended that it needed significant Lady (Rosemary) Clarke and Lord Clarke but not radical overhaul. In particular, they concluded that a clearer line should be drawn between the role of the executive, led by the Under Treasurer, and the role of Benchers through what has become a complex committee structure with Parliament at its apex. They prepared a detailed paper. The Deputy Treasurer, Master Symons, and I were quickly converted. In short, their point is that it is the role of the executive to manage the Inn and the role of the Benchers, through various standing committees and Parliament, to determine policy, and that this distinction has become lost in the plethora of committees which we have at present. The paper has been widely discussed and has been subject to various changes in the light of that discussion. It has now been approved The Rt Hon The Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony spent 27 years at the Bar, by the Executive Committee, which specialising in maritime and commercial law. He was appointed to the High Court will have a last look at it in early Bench in 1993 and in April that year succeeded Mr Justice Sheen as the Admiralty October before it is considered by Judge. Appointed to the Court of Appeal in 1998, he was called upon to conduct first Parliament shortly after that. I very the Thames Safety Inquiry and in the following year, the Marchioness and Bowbelle Inquiries. In 2005 he was appointed Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice. much hope that it will be approved in In October 2009 he was the first person appointed directly to be a Justice of the principle and form the basis of a more Supreme Court of the UK. streamlined and modern Middle Temple

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for the years ahead, without affecting I would like to see one regulator of greater temptation to forsake them, the underlying ethos and purpose of the advocates. The natural body to perform but whatever gifts an advocate may Inn as a very special and historic that function would be the BSB or its possess, be they never so dazzling, institution. successor, perhaps to be called the without the supreme qualification of Advocacy Standards Board (ASB). I an inner integrity, he will fall short personally would like the Inns, and of the highest standard.” Competent, independent and especially Middle Temple, to consider To my mind these are fundamental fearless advocacy conducted to the admitting all those with higher rights of principles applicable to all advocates, advocacy. I know that some may male or female, barrister or solicitor. highest standards are central to regard a suggestion of this kind as Good sense suggests, at least to me, the rule of law treasonable trading with the enemy; that all advocates should be subject to however, I do not see it like that. I the same regulator. COIC and the Inn The future is of great importance to regard such a step to be in the public will have a big part to play in all this. the Inns as they, and indeed the Bar, interest on the basis that it would I am delighted to say that since face many challenges. It is only in the further the rule of law. I stress that this August 2012 Master Pitchford has been last two years or so, during which I is an entirely personal view and I President of COIC, which will be in have attended a number of meetings of recognise both that I will soon be an ex- very good hands for the next three the Council of the Inns of Court Treasurer and that there is nothing so ex years. Thanks to the hard work of (COIC), that I have appreciated the as an ex-Treasurer. Master Symons, COIC will soon be a extent of those challenges. As I see it, The strength of the independent Bar the Bar has the strong support of the over the years has been its integrity and Bar Standards Board (BSB), but is ethical standards. This year I have had under some threat from the Legal the privilege of presiding over the Call Services Board (LSB). The Bar has ceremonies held at the Inn. At the end strengths in many areas but the most of each I have had the pleasure of important service which it provides to saying a few words to the new the public is that of advocacy. barristers. It seemed an appropriate Competent, independent and fearless moment to draw their attention to these advocacy conducted to the highest fundamental principles. The Recorder standards are central to the rule of law. of London, Peter Beaumont QC kindly The Inns in general, and the Middle drew to my attention these words by Temple through Middle Temple Norman Birkett QC: Advocacy in particular, have played and “The court must be able to rely on are playing a critical part in the training the advocate’s word; his word must of advocates and the maintenance of indeed be his bond and when he high standards. I look forward to a asserts to the court those matters time when advocacy training will be which are within his personal provided by the Inns to advocates knowledge the court must know for a throughout their careers. I know that surety that those things are this is a controversial view, but I would represented. The advocate has a like to see the Inns (led by Middle duty to his client, a duty to the court Temple) offering training to all higher and a duty to the state, but he has court advocates, including solicitors. above all, a duty to himself that he If, like me, you are a judge, your shall be, as far as lies in his power, a concern is that all advocates are well- man of integrity. trained and have high standards, No profession calls for a higher regardless of whether they are barristers standard of honour and uprightness or solicitors. and no profession perhaps offers

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legal entity. It will become ever more important as the Bar and the Inns face diverse and difficult challenges from, say, the LSB. Remember the old adage: “United we stand, divided we fall”. This year has been a great pleasure. Everyone in the Inn has been supportive in every way. There have been one or two exceptions. I mention only one. Master Arlidge represented to me that, if I played Pickwick, I would not have to learn the lines but Sir Declan Morgan, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Sir Stephen Oliver QC (E&W), Lord Clarke (E&W) at the Four Jurisdictions Law Conference, 11-13 May 2012 could in some way read them. This proved to be a false representation. Unfortunately my counsel has advised me that no court would accept that I relied on that representation because nobody could have thought it was true. In the event, thanks to Mrs Bardell (played by no less a thespian than my wife), I managed to learn most of them. The performance has been the most daunting moment of 2012 to date. I would like the Inn to know that a Treasurer’s year is not wholly made up of wining and dining, although I do not Roisin Kennedy (E&W), Brian Kennedy QC (NI), Kenneth Campbell QC (Scotland), deny that they play their part. So do Mr Justice David Bean (E&W) international conferences, including the Four Jurisdictions Law Conference held at Middle Temple in May and the Legal Conference in South Africa in September. If to this one adds the opening of the Ashley Building, the Bar Women’s Forum events, the lectures and seminars, the activities of the students through the MTSA, of the young Bar through the MTYBA and of the membership as a whole through the Hall Committee, the year to date has been a kaleidoscope of education and Paul O’Higgins SC (Irl), John O’Hara QC (NI), Adrian Whitfield QC (E&W), entertainment – at least for me. Roy Martin QC (Scotland), Paul McGarry SC (Irl) Finally, I have enormously enjoyed both the musical events organised by Brigadier Charles Wright, Lady Sheil, Master Burnton and by the Temple Mrs Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan (Irl), Michael Sheil (NI), Dr Thérèse Sheil Music Foundation and the many services and concerts I have been to in the Temple Church. One of the great privileges I have had as Treasurer is to sit in the Treasurer’s pew next to the choir. I hope to reach the end of the year without exhaustion and leave the Inn in the capable hands of Master Symons and the Under Treasurer. I am confident that under their leadership the Inn will go from strength to strength.

4 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 C HARLES D ICKENS Charles Dickens and the Middle Temple

by Lesley Whitelaw, Archivist

o his worldwide following introduced the Copyright Act to Tom and Ruth meet in Martin Dickens’s novels are renowned Parliament to assist the surviving Chuzzlewit. Tfor the author’s vivid evocation dependants of authors and poets. He In 1855 Dickens petitioned the Inn to of Victorian London and his panoply of was one of Dickens’s closest friends withdraw from membership. The memorable characters, many drawn and is said to have been the model for financial incentive to do so in those from the environs of the Temple and the the idealistic Tommy Traddles in David days was the return of one’s deposit profession of the Law. What is less Copperfield, while his children, Frank money – the considerable sum of £100, widely known is his specific association and Kate, are said to have given their worth over £8,500 in today’s money – with the Middle Temple. names to the children so called in and the termination of annual dues. After a childhood clouded by his Nicholas Nickleby. His petition (below) was granted at a father’s financial problems and From his days in the Middle Temple meeting of Middle Temple’s Parliament imprisonment for debt, Charles Dickens Dickens left descriptions of the dingy on 20th April 1855 and on 3rd May he was by the age of 15 working as a alleyways, courtyards and dilapidated signed a receipt for the return of his solicitor’s clerk on 15 shillings a week. buildings as well as the bright, £100 deposit. By November 1828 he had ventured sparkling fountain in the Temple where into law reporting and journalism, for which he displayed particular aptitude. To The Worshipful The Treasurer and the rest of the Masters of the By 1836, then established in Furnival’s Bench of The Honorable Society of the Middle Temple Inn, his Sketches by Boz won an admiring readership and were followed The Petition of Charles Dickens by the even more successful Pickwick Papers which brought sufficient Of Tavistock House,Tavistock Square, in the county of Middlesex financial security for him to be able to Sheweth That [blank] years ago your Petitioner entered himself a student of resign from the Morning Post in your Honorable Society, with the intention of keeping the requisite October 1836. It would seem from this number of terms and being called to the Bar. that his future as a novelist was assured, but on 6th December 1839 Dickens was That although your Petitioner was at that time a Writer of Books, he admitted to membership of the Middle did not foresee that Literature as a Profession would so entirely Temple with the intention of reading for engross his time and become the business of his life, as it has since the Bar. done and now does. That in the pursuit of his Art (both in his own country and in others),Your Petitioner has been entirely diverted from At this time every member of the the pursuit of the Law, and that he has long had reason to believe that Middle Temple was required on the separation is final. admission to the Inn to produce two men who would each sign a bond to Your Petitioner, with this experience of his inability to become a Law- guarantee any debts to the Inn the Student in any thing but in name, respectfully begs permission to member might incur. Dickens’s two withdraw himself from the Students’ List and to have his Deposit- securities were Edward Chapman, the Money returned to him, if your Worships should see no objection to young publisher on the Strand, who granting him this favor. together with William Hall had And Your Petitioner published writings by Dickens since as in duty bound, 1836, and Thomas Noon Talfourd, a Will ever Pray Middle Templar, Serjeant-at-Law and MP, to whom Dickens had dedicated Signature: Charles Dickens Date: Saturday, Seventeenth March, 1855 Pickwick Papers. Talfourd, whose portrait by Pickersgill hangs in the Bench corridor,

M ICHAELMAS 2012 200TH A NNIVERSARY OF D ICKENS’ S B IRTH

7TH FEBRUARY 2012

Bardell v Pickwick

he Inn held a fitting celebration in honour of the 200th Tanniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth. Over 275 members and their guests enjoyed a sumptuous dinner held in the Library before being entertained in Middle Temple Hall by thespian members of the Inn in the performance of The Trial of Bardell v Pickwick, adapted by Master Anthony Arlidge. The Chef and his team prepared a menu taken from the 1851 book entitled, What Shall We have for Dinner? Satisfactorily Answered from Numerous Bills of Fare for Two to Eighteen People by Lady Maria Clutterbuck (in fact Charles’ wife, Mrs Catherine Dickens), which included Cold Salmon, Doctor Marigold Pudding (Beef Steak Pudding with Mushrooms), Old English Foole (Trifle), and Cheese on Toast with a Watercress Salad.

6 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 John Cooper QC as Dodson, Lucy Shaw as Mrs Sanders, Simon Walters as Fogg, Lord Clarke as Pickwick, Lady Clarke as Mrs Bardell, HHJ Philip Bartle QC as Charles Dickens, Sir Christopher Rose as Mr Justice Stareleigh, Paul Darling QC as Foreman of the Jury, Mr Justice David Eady as Serjeant Snubbin, HHJ Ian Darling as Perker, Caroline Eady as Mrs Cluppins, Anthony Arlidge QC as Serjeant Buzfuz, Ellis Sareen as Sam Weller, HH Peter Cowell as Winkle. Photographs courtesy of Ripley Photography.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 7 T HE I NN Domus

by Master Treasurer

his year I have become aware of without putting anything into the Inn. to how the Inn could benefit its just how much the Inn relies on I suspect that I was not alone. The members, please contact the Under Tthe goodwill of its members. I good news is that there are a variety of Treasurer on 020 7427 4802 or email would like to thank all those who give ways in which members can become her at [email protected]. so generously to the Inn, whether it is involved in the life of the Inn (see One of the Inn’s most important through contributions to one of the opposite). purposes is to provide scholarships for Inn’s important fundraising initiatives Since 2008, the Inn has organised our students, and the Scholarship Fund or by giving their time to sponsor events specific to the various types of Appeal (SFA) now grants over £1 students, act as marshalling judges, its membership. They have included million in scholarships annually. A interview scholarship applicants, train the biennial Circuit Judges’ Dinner and very interesting fundraising opportunity our young barristers in advocacy or Academics’ Dinner, and the annual this year came about through the Inn’s serve on the Inn’s committees. Employed Bar Reception with BACFI. close relationship with the Princes’ I would also like to encourage all The annual overseas amity visits (South Charities Forum of which Middle members to become involved in the life Africa this year and Malaysia in 2013) Temple is a member through the of the Inn throughout their career, not enable the Inn to reconnect with its support of Master Prince William, our just when they are a student or members abroad, just as the Circuit Royal Bencher. The Inn was granted Bencher. I suspect that my contact Dinners, as for example the Northern places in the London Marathon for with the Inn has been not untypical. and North Eastern Circuits’ Dinner on members to run to raise money for the I was a frequent visitor when I was a 20 October this year, do with our Scholarship Fund Appeal and one of the student, when we had to eat very many members in the regions. These events charities of the Princes’ Charities dinners, which, so far as I recall, had no provide valuable contact with those Forum, in this case the Child educational input whatever. Once I outside London and stress the Bereavement Charity. Four ran for was Called, although I was in chambers fundamental importance of the rule of Middle Temple: one barrister, Adam in Essex Court (and thus round the law. The Under Treasurer and Gary Walker; one student, Nargees corner from the Hall), I played no Blaker, Chairman of the Hall Choudhury; and two staff members, effective part in the Inn for many years, Committee, (see page 44) have been Rachid Bakhlak (Catering) and Ian except to have lunch, until I became a continuing to address the best ways to Smith (Estates). A giving page was set Bencher in 1987. There were many increase member participation in the up and to date £2924.25 has been years during which I led a selfish life Inn. If you have other suggestions as raised, half of which will go to the Inn’s Scholarship Fund and the other half to Rachid Bakhlak ran in the London Marathon to raise money for the Scholarship Fund Appeal the Child Bereavement Charity. The and Child Bereavement Charity. If you would like to make a donation, go to page for the marathon is still open if www.virginmoneygiving.com/team/middletemple you wish to contribute to either of these worthy causes. This is only one of the creative and unusual ways to raise money in support of our students. Under the leadership of Catherine Newman, SFA Chairman, a Racing Night will take place on Monday, 19 November to raise money for the Scholarship Fund Appeal. It promises to be a unique event. I will be there. I hope you will. Finally, whether you are a student, a member of Hall or a Bencher, please support the Inn. If you would like to make a donation to one of the Inn’s Trusts, please complete and return the attached leaflet.

8 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 T HE I NN How to be Inn-volved

• Give an educational talk/lecture • Inform the Inn of your current contact details • Interview students for scholarships • Serve as a Chambers Representative • Help with the annual Education Open Day • Establish a Middle Temple Society in your country for University and Sixth-Form Students • Write an article for The Middle Templar Contact Christa Richmond, DUT (Education) Contact Kristine McGlothlin, Head of Bench Administration 020 7427 4800 or [email protected] 020 7427 4804 or [email protected]

• Help with advocacy training • Lunch in Hall (Monday to Friday 12.30-2 pm) • Attend the Inn’s CPD Day • Attend Inn events and bring a guest Contact Stacey Brown, Education Officer Contact the Treasury Office 020 7427 4800 or at [email protected] 020 7427 4800 or [email protected]

Become a Sponsor to a student • Volunteer to help in the Middle Temple Garden Contact Melissa Tucker, Student Records Officer • Sponsor a Bench or Planter in the MT Garden 020 7427 4800 or [email protected] Contact Kate Jenrick, Head Gardener 020 7427 4840 or [email protected] Set or judge a moot Contact Richard Chapman, Students’ Officer Attend a MT Historical Society Supper Talk 020 7427 4869 or [email protected] Contact Paola Kovacz, MTHS Treasurer 020 7427 4800 or [email protected] Act as a marshalling Judge Contact Sarah Hankinson, Assistant Students’ Officer Attend Choral Mattins and Church events 020 7427 4800 or [email protected] Contact Catherine de Satgé 020 7353 8559 or [email protected] • Use the Library • Donate a book to the Library Attend Temple Music Foundation/Temple Song Concerts Contact Vanessa Hayward, Keeper of the Library Ring 020 7427 5641 or book online at 020 7427 4830 or [email protected] www.templemusic.org

Sponsor a Rare Book (see attached leaflet) Donate to the Organ Fund Appeal (see page 56) Contact Renae Satterley, Senior Librarian Contact Penny Jonas, Development Consultant 020 7427 4830 or [email protected] 07778 799 842 or [email protected]

Donate to the Scholarship Fund Appeal. The Scholarship Fund Appeal was started in 2003 to maintain and increase the level of funding and the number of scholarships awarded each year, with the aim of raising £5 million. At the end of 2011, the Appeal Fund had reached £2.9 million. The Inn’s primary purpose is to ensure that those individuals of real ability, and who the Inn believes can succeed in the profession, are not precluded from coming to the Bar by a lack of financial resources. For further information, contact Colin Davidson, Director of Catering & Marketing, on 020 7427 4820 or [email protected].

Donate to the Access to the Bar Awards. This scheme, launched in early 2011, provides for applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds to spend one week in chambers and one week marshalling in court with a judge. Each is paid £250 per week. It is open to students from the end of their first year at university onwards and may therefore be seen as work experience rather than a formal, assessed mini-pupillage. It is as a means of enhancing the diversity of talented applicants to the Bar as a whole, and Middle Temple in particular. For further information, contact Christa Richmond, details as above.

Donate to the Reader’s Essay Prize. This new essay prize has been founded by Master Michael Crystal, the 2012 Autumn Reader. Competition for the prize, worth £2,000, will be open to members of the Inn of up to five years’ Call and will address a topic relating to Criminal or Common Law. The topic will be set and marked by one of the Readers in each year (or by another Bencher, if neither Reader is suitably qualified). The plan is for a fund to be built up which ensures that the Prize will continue in perpetuity. For further information, contact Christa Richmond, details as above.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 9 A SHLEY B UILDING

9TH MARCH 2012 Opening of the Ashley Building

by Master Eric Stockdale

ppropriately, Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, The of the 17th century it was located in the newly-erected Garden Earl of Shaftesbury officially opened the Building (later Court), adjoining the Hall, but by the early newly-named Ashley Building at a ceremony 19th century it had outgrown the limited space available there. attended by Master Treasurer, Benchers, In 1822 work was begun on the neo-Elizabethan Bench members of the Inn and staff. Apartments on the south side of the Hall, designed by the The Middle Temple library has been housed in several architect Henry Hakewill. On the completion of that work in different buildings over the years. By the second quarter 1824 the library was moved into the largest of the new rooms, the one at the western end of the new addition (which is now Portrait of Robert Ashley and ancestor Nicholas Ashley-Cooper the Parliament Chamber). Even with the addition of a gallery, that accommodation soon became too small for the growing number of books. During the 37 years that the library was squeezed into the end room, Parliament deliberated in the adjoining Queen’s Room. In 1857 the Inn purchased Essex Wharf, which adjoined the southwest corner of its garden on the Thames frontage, with the intention of erecting a new substantial library building on the site. A tall and imposing edifice in the Gothic style was erected to the design of H. R. Abraham and opened in 1861 by the Prince of Wales, on the day on which he became a Royal Bencher. That building had sufficient space for a common room on the ground floor. In December 1940, during the relentless bombing of London, a parachute mine exploded near the southeast corner of the library, causing substantial damage. The common room survived both that explosion and a similar one three weeks later, and so could be used for a skeleton library, but most of the books were evacuated to the country. The bombing also destroyed numbers 2 and 3 Brick Court. In 1946 the Inn’s labour force built a temporary library on that site, which was opened by our Royal Bencher Queen Elizabeth. The temporary use of that building lasted until the Queen (by then The Queen Mother) was able in 1958 to open the present elegant library building on Middle Temple Lane, designed by Edward Maufe. The Bench had decided that extensive repairs to the Victorian building were not justified, mainly because it had been built with little provision for expansion of the library holdings, and that the new building should be adjacent to the Bench Apartments and Hall. From 1958 on it was known simply as the Library building, as it contained only the books and archive, together with a common room on the ground floor, with access to the garden. After 1958 the number of members of staff grew, as did the need to house electronic and other equipment. The Treasury offices were located in various corners of Plowden Buildings and occupied rooms that could otherwise have been profitably let as professional chambers. In 2010 the Bench reluctantly decided that the use of the common room would have to be

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switched from collegiate and convivial meetings of barristers 1672 he was created the Earl of Shaftesbury and appointed and students to office use. The cost of the conversion work on Lord Chancellor. the ground floor of the library block would be met in time by The Middle Temple is very grateful to the 12th Earl of the rent recovered in respect of the vacated offices in Plowden Shaftesbury for joining in the ceremony to mark the generous Buildings. As well as providing more spacious gift of his ancestor Robert Ashley. There could not have been accommodation for staff, the revamped ground floor would a more appropriate person than a member of the family of the provide a respectable modern entrance for visitors to the Inn. generous bibliophile who founded the Inn’s library. The work was executed during 2011 under the supervision of the Chairman of the Estates Committee, Master Paul Darling, Master Treasurer and The Earl of Shaftesbury and the Director of Estates, Ian Garwood. The library and archive continued to occupy the major part of the building but as it now housed the Treasury, Education and Finance Departments, a new name for the building was needed. Enter Ashley! Robert Ashley was born in 1565 and educated at Oxford, where apart from becoming a scholar of distinction he developed a great love of foreign languages. He later translated several works from French, Italian and Spanish. His elder bother Anthony was a member of the Middle Temple and in 1588 persuaded Robert to join. Their younger brother Francis was admitted in the following year and was the only one of the three who had a successful career at the Bar, becoming a King’s Serjeant in 1625. Not long after his admission to the Inn, Robert participated in the war in France against the Catholic League as an aide-de-camp to Sir Thomas Baskerville. After his return to England in 1591, Robert spent most of his time in the Middle Temple, being Called to the Bar in 1595. He never married and when not traveling abroad occupied chambers in the Inn. As an avid collector of books on many topics he found himself short of space and was granted the tenancy of a second set to house his books. The Inn’s earlier small collection of law books had disappeared by virtue of a number of thefts in the time of Henry VIII and had never been replaced, so perhaps the Benchers persuaded Ashley to let them consult his authorities in consideration of the grant of the extra tenancy. Robert Ashley died without issue in 1641 and was buried in the Temple Church. He bequeathed his precious collection of some 5000 volumes to the Inn, together with £300 for a student to be appointed as the first Keeper of the Library. The bequest included books on law as well as books on several other subjects. Among the books of considerable value still in the possession of the Inn are those acquired by Ashley from John Donne. Anthony Ashley’s grandson, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, was raised to the peerage in Charles II’s Coronation honours; in

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 11 A DOPT A B ARRISTER Adopted by an American Inn of Court by Master Stephanie Farrimond

n a cold, bleak February Inn of Court in Northern California, in years’ practice are “associates”; those morning I received a call from particular the President, Sarah Leger between seven and twenty years’ Othe Under Treasurer asking me and the Pupillage Director, Kathleen experience are known as “barristers”; a very tricky question, “How do you Herdell. the more senior members, over twenty feel about being adopted by an I learned from Kathleen that I was years’ practice are called “masters”. American Inn of Court and visiting being asked to deliver a speech of Judicial members, of which there are them to deliver a speech in May under about an hour’s length to educate the seven, are known as “Masters of the the new Adopt a Barrister Scheme?” members of her Inn about the Middle Bench”. Consequently, both Lynn and Catherine then casually added, “By the Temple. Kathleen had previously Bonnie were a little confused when I way, the American Inn in question is in visited and was in awe of the beauty explained to them that although I was a the Napa Valley in California and they and history of our Hall; she was keen Master of the Bench of the Middle will be paying all your expenses.” for me to make my talk around a slide- Temple, I was not a judge. Having deliberated for all of ten show presentation. Starting with the seconds I accepted the invitation and so Knights Templar and finishing with The purpose of pupillage for the began the “adoption” process. A series current Royal Benchers; 1000 years of of email exchanges later, I was legal history condensed into an hour, I American Inns is to develop and approved for adoption and introduced would have preferred the task of encourage civility in practice to my adoptors, the Richard Sangster performing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). between its members I arrived in San Francisco to be met Kathleen Herdell, Pupillage Director and Sarah Leger, President of the by Lynn Pfeifer, the Executive Director I also learnt that whilst there was a Richard Sangster Inn of the Richard Sangster Inn of Court, Pupillage Director, the idea of pupillage and Bonnie Freeman, the Vice- was very different from our own. The President of the Inn. During the hour’s purpose of pupillage for the American journey north to Napa I was briefed Inns is to develop and encourage about the American Inns of Court civility in practice between its system, which has been in existence for members. Whilst we have a system about thirty years, and I was struck by that imposes twelve months’ pupillage how different it is from ours. Whereas on all junior barristers, for the to be a practising barrister in the UK experienced attorneys in Napa Valley, you have to be a member of one of the pupillage sessions are confined to an four Inns of Court, in America only the hour-long meeting in one of the most elite lawyers are invited to courthouses of Napa, Sonoma and become members by the executive Marin, on the third Thursday evening of committee of each Inn. Indeed, many every month between September and of the American Inns in the larger May. As many of the Inn’s members as American cities have such vast possible attend to hear a legal lecture numbers of attorneys wanting to join on a case review or recent legal that they have a rolling membership, developments, or indeed watch a which lapses after three years, so that comedy review written and performed new members might apply. by their members. Afterwards they The Richard Sangster Inn of Court adjourn to a nearby restaurant where was founded some fifteen years ago notices and toasts are read out and and is comprised of attorneys practising proper socialising begins. out of three counties: Napa, Sonoma My speech was delivered on the and Marin, all north of the Golden Gate third Thursday in May to a packed Bridge. There are currently eighty-six “Superior Court of California in and for members; the most junior, under seven the County of Napa”, to give the grand,

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Napa vineyards, to horse riding amongst the ancient redwood forests, my every whim was catered for. It would also have been rude to have left Napa without visiting one or two of its glorious wineries and learning a little about its viticulture. Sarah and Master of the Bench, Judge Diane Price, with their respective spouses took me on a VIP vineyard tour. On my final day I was invited for brunch with another Bencher, Judge Wine tasting in Santa Helena with Sarah Leger and Judge Diane Price Lynn Duryee, her husband and lawyer friends at her home in San Raphael, old, civil courthouse of Napa its full Heffner, one of the Associate members which has the most beautiful views title. My hosts were gracious enough to of the Inn, took me to the Napa over the San Francisco Bay. My final declare that they enjoyed the talk and, Superior Criminal Court to watch a trial stop before the airport was a tour of the indeed, during the ensuing dinner much in action. This was the first time I had Golden Gate Park and a visit to a Jean was made of the loyal toast to Domus. been inside an American Court and I Paul Gaultier exhibition at the De They were also surprised to learn that learned a lot in those two hours: the Young Museum in San Francisco with there is a great historical connection trial was of a man acquitted of an my amiable barrister host, Gordon Fine. between the Middle Temple and the assault (probably the equivalent of an I left California feeling a truly well- United States. Sir Francis Drake is well actual bodily harm) by reason of loved and cared for Adopted Barrister. known in the area: Drake’s Bay and insanity in 2005. Every two years his Connections have now been established Drake’s Landing off the West Coast of case is brought to trial before a jury, for that I hope will see the beginning of a California were less than an hour’s them to determine whether or not he great friendship between the Richard drive from where I was delivering my remains a danger to society. I don’t Sangster Inn and the Middle Temple. I speech. Consequently, they were know what the outcome was, but his hope that the future sees other members delighted to see the photos of the defence attorney had a serious problem of the Inn having the privilege of being Cupboard in Hall, made from the of not knowing when to stop asking adopted by our American cousins in hatchcover of the Golden Hind, and questions in cross-examination of other American Inns of Court. learn how we still use it for ceremonies expert witnesses. such as Call to the Bar (which required Both Kathleen and Sarah had worked me to robe up, on request from my hard to fill every conceivable moment The Adopt a Barrister Scheme is hosts) and Call to the Bench. that I remained on American soil. From the brainchild of the President of I cannot pretend that my visit to getting up at 4.30 am to catch the the American Inns of Court, Master California was all hard work. John thermals for a balloon ride over the Don Lemons and Master David Blunt, and was set up following Horse riding with Jack DeMeo, one of the founding members of the Richard Sangster Inn discussions in 2011. Stephanie Farrimond's sponsored visit to Napa Valley was arranged as a pilot. Under the scheme if, as is hoped, it is taken forward, an American Inn of Court will make an offer, through the American Inns of Court Foundation, to sponsor a short, all- expenses-paid visit by a Middle Temple barrister, whose only obligation will be to give one or two lectures on topics chosen by the sponsoring Inn. The offer will be relayed to the Treasurer, who will nominate a barrister whose profile fits the requirements of the hosts and is someone who has provided significant services to the Middle Temple.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 13 arrived at Tokyo’s Narita Airport at 9 am local time on Monday, 14 May following an overnight flight from London. By 3 pm that day I was at the Ielegant Ministry of Justice building in the heart of this amazing city discussing the finer points of the English criminal law with some of the most senior, experienced and knowledgeable lawyers in Japan. In this way I began my two- week holiday! Japan was a country I had only briefly visited on a cruise some eight years ago. I had long wanted to return, to explore it properly, or at least as much as one sensibly could in a mere two weeks. For some six or seven years now the Middle Temple has had the honour of hosting visits by senior Judges and Public Prosecutors from Japan, keen to learn more about our criminal legal system. From the outset I have been impressed deeply by the extent of their knowledge of the intricate details of our laws and procedures and their ability to discuss it in English. Initially our distinguished visitors sought our help in mastering advocacy before a jury. In May 2009, after decades of trial by Judges alone, trial by jury was re- introduced. This “Saiban-in” system, as it is called, is not quite the jury trial as we know it. A Japanese jury comprises six members of the public sitting together with three professional Judges to form a nine-member jury, which not only determines guilt or innocence, but also decides on sentence. Saiban-in trials are restricted to the most serious crimes (e.g. homicide, robbery resulting in injury or death, drunk driving resulting in death, arson of an inhabited building, kidnap for ransom) and it is important to note that Japan still has the death penalty for certain offences. I had the enormous pleasure of watching part of a Saiban-in case when I visited the city of Nagoya. The lay members sat alongside the three Judges in what struck me as an important visible sign of equality. This was a sentence hearing in a murder case and I was fascinated to see one of the Defendants give evidence in his own mitigation and be questioned not only by his own Defence Advocate, the Public Prosecutor and the Judges, but also by the lay members of the Jury. Alas, I was unable to watch more than a fraction of that hearing before I was taken to a large conference room and invited to address various very senior and distinguished practitioners on a number of topics of mutual interest. Once again I was astounded by the depth of their knowledge of English criminal law. No one country has a

14 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 Deputy Treasurer Christopher Symons QC monopoly on wisdom when it comes to legal practice and procedure. Our laws have matured over the years, hristopher Symons but it would be naïve to suggest that was educated at we have attained a perfect system. CClifton College This sharing of experience and ideas and the University of Kent can only work to our mutual at Canterbury. He was advantage. Indeed, sometimes it is Called to the Bar in 1972 highly beneficial to examine our own methods of and spent the first sixteen operating through the perspective of an independent, years of his professional informed observer. life as a tenant in Lamb Lest it be thought that my visit to Japan was all work Buildings in the Temple, and no play, I had plenty of time to explore the many in the Chambers of the Rt delights of Tokyo, Nikko, Nagoya, Nara, Kyoto, Osaka, Hon Sir Elwyn Jones Ise, Hiroshima and Miyajima, travelling by the remarkable (later, Robin Auld QC). bullet trains with their astounding record of punctuality. In 1988 he moved to his current chambers, then known as Apparently the average delay in 2011 for the whole rail 3 Gray’s Inn Place, now 3 Verulam Buildings in Gray’s Inn. network was . . . 7 seconds!!! With such an efficient From 1986 to 1989 he was Junior Counsel to the Crown on service, I had no difficulty in covering so much of this the Common Law side at a time when there was a small panel large and fascinating country. I am indebted to Mr working below the Treasury Devil. He was Head of Makoto Katayama, First Secretary (Legal) at the Embassy Chambers at Verulam Buildings from 1999-2009, a time he of Japan, and to Mr Akira Irie, an Attorney from the can now look back on with some pleasure having now passed Criminal Affairs Bureau who is currently studying English on the reins. law in London, for helping me to plan my itinerary. Their Apart from his work for the Crown, the last 40 years have advice and suggestions were invaluable. seen him practising at the Commercial Bar largely involving Whilst in Japan I was thrilled to meet up again with a insurance-related matters interspersed with some work in the dear friend of the Middle Temple, Mr Takehito Kawabuchi professional negligence field. In recent years he has been (the predecessor to Mr Katayama), his wife, Kiyo, and sitting regularly as an Arbitrator on commercial matters, again their wonderful daughters, Miki and Yuki. Their generous frequently dealing with insurance and reinsurance matters. He hospitality was beyond measure. was a Recorder from 1993 to 2005 and has sat as a Deputy A real treat for me was to spend time with some of High Court Judge since 1998. In the last few years the High those whom I had met on their visits to the Middle Court sitting has been in the Administrative Court. Temple: Miss Yuki Tsuruta, Mr Kaku Hirao and Mr He was Called as a Bencher of the Inn in 1998. He chaired Ohashi are just three of those whose kindness to me was the Estates Committee for four years having previously spent unlimited and who made me feel so very much more than time on the Rents and Tenancies Committee before becoming a mere foreign tourist. Thanks to them, I gained a taste of Deputy Treasurer Elect in 2011. the real Japan and its people. Christopher is a director of the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund I cannot close without also expressing my gratitude to Limited, the Bar’s Mutual insurer, and chairs the Audit Mr Taiji Oyama, Director of the Criminal Affairs Bureau Committee. He is also President of the Lloyd’s Appeal at the Ministry of Justice in Tokyo, and to Mr Shuji Tribunal, a part-time position dealing with appeals as required. Iwamura, Superintending Prosecutor in Nagoya, and to all As a result of running, with colleagues, a small Chambers’ their colleagues. It was an honour to be invited to discuss charity he now sits on the Board of Governors of Christopher aspects of criminal law and procedure with them. Hatton Primary School and as a Trustee of the Holborn The Middle Temple’s link with our colleagues in Japan Community Association. The Chambers’ charity helps local and with the Embassy in London under its most charming organisations in the vicinity of Chambers in the Holborn and Ambassador, Mr Hayashi, is unbreakable. For my part I King’s Cross area where it can make a difference. look forward to another, longer holiday in the years to Christopher continues to hit tennis and golf balls in his come. spare time and enjoys fly fishing particularly in the summer on the River Spey. He is a lover of wine, and serves as a member on the Middle Temple Wine Sub-Committee. He and his wife, Sue, divide their time between Fulham and Hampshire.

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29TH JUNE - 1ST JULY 2012 World Bar Conference, London

by Master Stephen Hockman

he International Council of advocates and barristers every two advantage of a specialist referral Advocates and Barristers years. These conferences have been profession such as our own. Of these, T(ICAB) is not a name which held at various places including Hong only about a quarter were from England trips off the lips of barristers and judges Kong, Capetown, Edinburgh, and and Wales. up and down the country. Although it Sydney. This year, for the first time, Conference sessions included came into existence (as an off-shoot of the World Bar Conference was held in discussion of Supreme Court Advocacy, the International Bar Association) in London. Over 250 delegates converged Advocacy against the Odds (as in 2002, its main role to date has been to on the Temple from jurisdictions places like Zimbabwe), Prosecution arrange an international conference for around the world which have the Advocacy, Advocacy at Public

David Thompson, Director of the Royal Desmond Browne QC, Programme Director for the World Bar Conference; Stephen Hockman Courts of Justice, at the Rolls Building QC, former Chairman of the Bar of England and Wales and Co-Chair of ICAB together with Noelle McGrenera QC of the Bar of Northern Ireland

The Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond; The Hon Robert French AC, Chief Justice of Australia; The Rt Hon Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers KG, President of the Supreme Court; Desmond Browne QC, former Chairman of the Bar of England and Wales; and Justice Edwin Cameron, South African Constitutional Court Photographs Ben Denison

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Inquiries, and the topical issue of underlying purpose of the conference. the Australian judges as we walked Quality Assurance. There was a In part, the answer may be found in the home from Saturday’s dinner, who had historical session on Great Advocates of comments by some of those who commented on what history the English the Past, including Cicero, Erskine and attended. For example, Jane Treleaven Bar has, we must remember that it is F.E. Smith. The keynote address was of the Melbourne Bar commented, also the history of our Bar.” delivered by Master Igor Judge, and the “Delegates left the Conference feeling More generally, at a time when it is concluding remarks on “Why the Bar renewed and inspired as to the role they becoming ever more important to matters – and will go on mattering” by play, not just as members of their own defend and proclaim the function in our our Treasurer, Master Anthony Clarke. local Bars, but as actors in a broader society of a specialist independent Bar, (It is hoped that a DVD containing common law universe.” gatherings such as this are a visible extracts of the presentations will in due An Australian delegate wrote, “I am embodiment of the importance and course be available for training sure that the England and Wales Bar do value of our tradition of oral advocacy, purposes.) Delegates were able to visit not take venues such as the Middle and of the crucial role of the advocate the Supreme Court and the Rolls Temple Hall and the Temple Church for in a democratic society. Building, enjoy a reception at the granted, otherwise you would not have From a domestic point of view, it House of Lords, attend Choral Mattins bothered showing them off to us, but was good to be able to demonstrate the in Temple Church, and have dinner in they do add enormously to such part which the Inns of Court, not least Middle Temple Hall. occasions. The service yesterday was Middle Temple, can contribute to these A sceptical reader might ask the truly special. And as I said to one of vital objectives.

Master Edwin Cameron Sir Sydney Kentridge KCMG QC, Michael Todd QC, Chairman of the Bar of England and Wales, and (Master) Maura McGowan QC, Vice-Chairman of the Bar of England and Wales

Master Treasurer speaking on “Why the Bar matters – and will go on mattering” Conference participants at the House of Lords

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 17 M ASTERS New Masters of the Bench

New Masters are Called to the Bench by Master Reader in a ceremony held in Hall attended by their guests, fellow Benchers, barristers and students. After dinner, each of the new Benchers is introduced by Master Treasurer and then gives a brief address which is usually a light-hearted autobiographical account revealing some amusing career anecdotes and highlighting his/her links with the Inn. Bench seniority is determined by date of Call to the Bar for members of the Inn, and at the Treasurer’s discretion for Honorary Benchers. At each Inn event, the most recently Called Bencher, “Master Junior”, replies to the Treasurer’s toasts to The Queen, Domus, and Absent Members.

Alistair McGregor QC

Alistair studied law at Queen Mary’s College London before being Called in 1974. He was appointed junior Treasury Counsel to the Inland Revenue, and he took Silk in 1997. He was a co- founder of 11 KBW and currently practises in employment and partnership law. He is one of the Inn’s advanced advocacy trainers. His particular speciality concerns City disputes and team moves. In that capacity, he has spent many hours training students and pupils. He is a member of the Inn’s Catering Committee. Master McGregor is also a talented musician.

His Honour Judge Jeremy Donne RD QC

Called in 1978, Master Donne sat as a Recorder and was a highly respected criminal Silk (2003) with a practice in heavy crime and regulatory work before being appointed a Circuit Judge in July 2012. He has been a facilitator for the Criminal Bar Association/Bar Council courses on the Human Rights Act. He is an accomplished advocacy trainer, and is co-organiser of the Inn’s New Practitioners' Programme (criminal) and a trainer of both pupils and trainers. Jeremy has taught for the Inn in the Bahamas and also assisted with student disciplinary hearings. He is also a RYA/DTI yachtmaster and former Royal Navy Reserve officer.

John Scott SC

Head of Des Voeux Chambers in Hong Kong, John has an extensive practice as an advocate and arbitrator. He also has an active practice in non-contentious company matters such as Company Schemes of Arrangement and Reductions of Capital. Called in England & Wales in 1982, he is also a member of 4 Stone Buildings in London. Master Scott generously sponsors an international scholarship for the Inn which covers travel and accommodation in Hong Kong, a stay of three weeks, with one week’s work experience in Des Voeux Chambers, one week’s marshalling, and when possible, one week’s work experience in an international law firm.

Mark Raeside QC

Called in 1982 and Silk in 2002, Mark is a leading practitioner in International and Domestic Arbitrations predominantly in Professional Negligence and Construction with a practice that includes Poland, Ukraine, Estonia (earning him the Estonian Military Cross), the Middle East, China and North America. Mark is an advocacy and trainers’ trainer and he devised and teaches on the Inn’s Mediation Course. He lectures and teaches all forms of dispute resolution at the CIArb and also chairs the RICS Disciplinary Appeals Tribunal. He is active in various heritage and environmental charities and finds time to be the General Editor of Hudson on Building Contracts and author of a forthcoming book on Commercial Mediation.

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Jo Delahunty QC

Called 1986, Silk 2006, Recorder 2010, FLBA executive 2010- present, Master Delahunty is a star of the Family Bar. From a single parent family where no one had remained in education beyond 16, she got herself from a comprehensive school to Oxford University thence to the Bar. She is committed to Legal Aid work, and noted for her “rapier-like incisiveness”. Jo specialises in serious abuse cases involving the death of/catastrophic injuries to a child; intergenerational/inter-sibling sex abuse, child cruelty and ritualized abuse. She is married to the man she met, aged 17, in China. They have 3 children, 2 dogs, 2 classic cars and 1 dinghy which she excels in dry capsizing.

Stephanie Farrimond

Called in 1987 Master Farrimond practised criminal law from 18 Red Lion Court until December 2011 when she left to concentrate on her passion: advocacy and legal training. She has been involved with the Inn’s advocacy training since 1997 and has been training trainers since 2002. Stephanie currently co-ordinates the Cumberland Lodge programme and has been a regular faculty member of the Keble International Advanced Advocacy Course. She has worked globally training advocacy trainers in countries as diverse as Jamaica, India, Pakistan, South Africa and Sierra Leone, and is a member of the International Committee of the Advocacy Training Council.

Professor Geraldine Van Bueren

Professor of International Human Rights Law, Queen Mary, London; Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford; a practising barrister and Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers, Geraldine is a Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission and a drafter of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Her recent books were commissioned by the UN and the Council of Europe Law’s Duty to the Poor (UNESCO) and Child Rights in Europe (Council of Europe). She received the UNICEF and Law Society’s Child Rights Lawyer Award and co-founded INTERIGHTS. Her writings have been cited in courts and legislatures globally.

Professor Jeremy Horder LLD (HONORARY)

Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law at King’s College London, Master Horder was the Porjes Trust Law Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford from 1989-2005, and a Law Commissioner from 2005-2010. At the Law Commission he led law reform projects resulting in recommendations that led to changes in the law of inchoate offences through the Serious Crime Act 2007, changes to the law of murder in the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, and a new statutory basis for the law of bribery effected by the Bribery Act 2010. Publications include Homicide and the Politics of Law Reform (2012); Excusing Crime (2004), and Provocation and Responsibility (1992).

Professor Lisa Jardine CBE (HONORARY)

Master Jardine is Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Humanities at UCL, and Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She is author of a number of best-selling history books including The Curious Life of Robert Hooke; Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution; and On a Grander Scale: the Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren. Her 2008 book Going Dutch won the 2009 Cundill History Prize at McGill University. She is a former Chairman of Governors at Westminster City School for Boys, and a non-executive director of the National Archives. She was recently awarded the British Academy’s President’s medal, and in 2013-14 will be President of the British Science Association.

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The Hon Lord Hodge (HONORARY)

A Senator of the College of Justice since 2005, Patrick studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1983, and took Silk in 1996. His practice was mainly in commercial law, judicial review and property law. He served as a part-time Commissioner on the Scottish Law Commission from 1997–2003, and from 2000 to 2005 was a Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, and Procurator to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He sits in the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, but has specific responsibility as the senior commercial judge in the Court of Session.

The Rt Hon Sir Declan Morgan QC (HONORARY)

Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (NI) since June 2009, Master Morgan was educated at Cambridge, and Queen’s University, Belfast. Called to the Bar in NI in 1976, he took Silk in 1993. From 2002 to 2004, he was Senior Crown Counsel for NI. He also served for a time as Judge-In- Residence at the School of Law of Queen’s University, Belfast. In 2004, he was appointed a judge of the High Court. He became Chairman of the Law Reform Advisory Committee for NI that same year, and in 2007 was appointed Chairman of the NI Law Commission. In 2007, he was appointed to the Family Division of the Court, and in 2008 moved to hearing cases for judicial review.

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton MVO MBE (HONORARY)

Master Lowther-Pinkerton served in the British Army, initially as an Irish Guardsman, including as Equerry to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and then for eight years in the SAS. He attended Staff College, and worked on the Balkan Desk in the MOD. After leaving the army, he advised NGOs and media groups on security in conflict and post-conflict regions. Since 2005, he has been Private Secretary to Prince William and Prince Harry, and now to The Duchess of Cambridge. He is a Trustee of the HALO Trust mine-clearance NGO; Sentebale, supporting vulnerable children in Lesotho; and The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.

Clive Newton QC

Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he read Classics for Moderations before switching to Law, Clive has always combined practice at the Bar with teaching in Oxford. He took Silk in 2002 and has since then specialised in Family and Education Law. In Oxford he has held positions at Wadham College, University College, and Oriel College, where he has taught for the last 25 years. He has judged several moots for the Inn and in a university context and has completed the training- the-trainers course at Middle Temple. With several publications to his name he has co-edited the last five editions of Jackson’s Matrimonial Finance and Taxation.

Michael Wood QC

Educated at Rubgy School, where he played in what was chosen as the best XV between 1950 and 2000, and Southampton University. Master Wood was Called in 1976 and took Silk in 1999. He has been a Recorder of the Crown Court since 1993 and is now authorised to sit at the Central Criminal Court. He practises predominantly on the South Eastern Circuit. He plays golf, enjoys a day out at Twickenham and is a season ticket holder at Chelsea and was in Munich to see them win the Champions League. He has been an advocacy trainer for a number of years. Master Wood recently held his wedding reception in the Inn.

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Simon Readhead QC

Called in 1979, Master Readhead began his career on the Midland and Oxford Circuit and was Junior of the Circuit from 1989-1990. Since 1990 his practice has involved clinical and other professional liability cases and public and administrative law. He took Silk in 2006. For many years Simon served on the Bar Council’s Costs Panel. He was appointed an Assistant Recorder in 1995 and has been a Recorder since 2000. Simon has been an advocacy trainer for the Inn since 2004 and since 2010 has also lectured on the advocacy course. Outside the law, Simon has, in his time, worked both as a part-time mortuary technician and as a libel reader for The Sun newspaper.

John Cooper QC

Educated at Wolverhampton and Newcastle University, John practises in crime and human rights at 25 Bedford Row. In 2008 he was shortlisted as Human Rights Barrister of the Year by Liberty, JUSTICE and the Law Society. He is active as Honorary Visiting Professor of Law at Cardiff University, has written legal textbooks and articles, and edited periodicals. He has been on the Bar Council for many years (Vice-Chair Public Affairs Committee 2008-2010). A former MT Reveller, he has written plays for the stage (Royal Court, Tricycle) and TV, and columns and features for The Times and Observer. Within the Inn he is an active sponsor, trainer, judge of moots, and lecturer.

Her Honour Judge Usha Karu

Called to the Bar in 1984, Master Karu practised at the criminal Bar on the South Eastern Circuit. She was a member of the Criminal Bar Association Diversity Committee and served on the Bar Professional Standards Committee. In 2005 she was the first female Asian to be appointed a Circuit Judge. She sits at Inner London Crown Court where she is a training judge for new Recorders. She is a Mentor Judge for the Central London group and a Judicial Member of the Mental Health (First Tier) Tribunals. Master Karu has been a member of the Hall Committee, is an advocacy trainer and also assists the Inn with judging moots. She is married with two sons.

Mark Cannon QC

Called in 1985, Master Cannon took Silk in 2008. He is a leading practitioner in the areas of professional liability, insurance and construction and engineering. Mark was Chairman of the Professional Negligence Bar Association in 2010-11. He has contributed to Bar Council papers on entry to the Bar, legal aid and costs. A major contributing editor to Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability since 1992, he has recently co-authored another book, Cannon & McGurk on Professional Indemnity Insurance. Away from the law Mark spends as much of the ski season as he can in Argentiere and as much of the rest of the year in either Herefordshire or Italy.

Philippa Whipple QC

Philippa was Called to the Bar in 1994, having started her career as a solicitor at Freshfields. She is a member of the South Eastern and Western Circuits and has sat as a Recorder on the Western Circuit since 2005. She has a successful practice at 1 Crown Office Row, specialising in tax, public law and medical law (Silk 2010). Master Whipple was appointed Counsel to the Detainee Inquiry from 2010 until this year. She is chair of the Merton Lawyers’ Association, and recently organised an evening of music by the Merton Choir in Temple Church. She was a panellist at a recent MT forum with Aberdeen Asset Management on “glass ceilings” for women in the profession.

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Ian Forrester QC LLD

Ian has practised European law in Brussels for over thirty years. He took Silk (Scotland) in 1988, and is a member of the New York Bar following a successful appeal about his alien status. He has argued numerous celebrated cases before the European Courts, including Magill (about the Radio Times), Bosman (football) and Microsoft (Windows). He enjoys life as an occasional lecturer on European law; publishes regular law review articles, especially on the European Commission’s procedures in light of the European Court of Human Rights and the Lisbon Treaty; and leads the Pro Bono Practice of White & Case, with which Forrester Norall & Sutton merged in 1998.

The Hon Anthony Dudley

Chief Justice of Gibraltar since February 2010, Master Dudley is the first Gibraltarian to be appointed to that office on a non-acting basis. He was Called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1989. After some years in private practice he became Registrar to the Supreme Court and acted as additional Stipendiary in that period. After a return to private practice he again joined the Gibraltar courts as Stipendiary Magistrate and Coroner. It was in his post as Additional Judge that he subsequently became acting Chief Justice.

Nicholas Critelli, Jr

Called to the Bar in 1991, Master Critelli is a barrister and practising American trial lawyer. He is a member of the New York Bar (1990), U.S. Supreme Court (1971) and Iowa Bar (1967). He is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers, an advocate in the American Board of Trial Advocates, is board certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and Chair of the Iowa State Bar Association’s Ethics and Standards Committee. Since 1990, he has funded the Anglo-American Exchange Scholarship, worth £3,000, to enable a Middle Temple young barrister to work for six weeks in his firm in Iowa.

Dame Gillian Weir DBE (HONORARY)

An internationally acclaimed concert organist, Master Weir made her début at the Royal Albert Hall while still a student, as concerto soloist on the Opening Night of the 1965 Proms. Since then she has given some 2000 performances worldwide and was nominated in 1999 by Classic CD magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Players of the Century and by The Sunday Times as one of the 1000 Music Makers of the Millennium. She has served as President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, the Royal College of Organists and the Incorporated Society of Organists (the first fe- male president of both), and is also the Prince Consort Professor of Organ, Royal College of Music.

Admiral the Lord Boyce KG GCB OBE DL (HONORARY)

Lord Boyce is a cross bench member of the House of Lords, and a former First Sea Lord and Chief of the Defence Staff. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa and joined the Royal Navy in 1961, specialising as a submariner. Command of three submarines, including HMS Superb, the frigate HMS Brilliant and appointment as Senior Naval Officer Middle East was interspersed with time in the Ministry of Defence. Michael was promoted to the Flag List in 1991 and, after a series of Flag posts, retired as professional head of the Armed Forces in 2003. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London in December 2003. In July 2004, he was appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, to succeed the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

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His Honour Judge John Mitchell

Called in 1972, Master Mitchell was a successful family lawyer before being appointed a Circuit Judge in November 2006. He is the author of Children Act Private Law Proceedings and Adoption & Special Guardianship (Jordans Press). He now sits as lead judge at the Gee Street Courthouse and takes pupils on the Inn’s court-based days. He is a committed advocacy trainer, sets and judges moots for our students, and teaches our new practitioners. He is also Chairman of the The Middle Temple Historical Society and a governor of the Addey & Stanhope School in Deptford.

Professor Robert Hazell CBE

Called in 1973, Master Hazell started his career as a barrister, and wrote The Bar on Trial, a critical account of the Bar written with young barrister contemporaries, including Masters Alexander Layton, James Munby and Nicholas Warren. He is the founder and Director of the Constitution Unit at UCL, an independent think-tank specialising in constitutional reform. Prior to that, he was Director of the Nuffield Foundation for six years, and before that, a senior civil servant in the Home Office (1975-89). He has been closely involved with the whole constitutional reform agenda, and is currently leading a project on the politics of judicial independence.

Michael Kent QC

Chairman of the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association, Master Kent was Called in 1975 and is a distinguished common law practitioner who has pursued a broad practice encompassing public and private law including high profile group litigation. He took Silk in 1996 and is a Recorder and a Deputy High Court Judge sitting in the Queen’s Bench Division and in the Administrative Court. He was a member of the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar Council in the 1990s and has recently been a member of the Contingency Legal Aid Fund working party. He was Deputy Head of Chambers of Crown Office Chambers until the end of last year.

Ann Hussey QC

Called in 1981, Master Hussey is a successful family money Silk (2009) dealing with high net- worth individuals and offshore trusts. She is a role model for younger practitioners, having achieved her standing at the Family Bar while bringing up four children. She is married to Master Alastair Sharp. In her chambers, she currently chairs the Pupillage Committee and promotes outreach work in universities and schools. She regularly lectures on continuing education programmes to solicitors and the Bar and has volunteered her services to promote the MT Women’s Forum. She has been a moot judge, and enthusiastically supports the annual Burns’ Night.

Amanda Pinto QC

Amanda is a commercial crime and regulatory specialist practising from 5 Paper Buildings, writing and lecturing on corporate crime, corruption and money laundering in the UK and abroad. She is Vice-Chairman of the International Committee of the Bar Council, the Director of International Affairs for the Criminal Bar Association and the UK’s representative on the Council of the International Criminal Bar. She is committed to promoting the rule of law both at home and overseas, recently organising international campaigns to ensure victims of war crimes have access to full medical care and to secure the release of a lawyer arrested for representing an unpopular client. She is an advocacy trainer at the Inn.

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Hugh Mercer QC

Hugh practises EU law and Conflict of Laws. For the past 20 years, he has been heavily involved in promoting the Bar’s interests in Europe, in particular among the EU institutions and other EU Bars. With Master Fergus Randolph, he promoted the formation of the European Circuit, the first new circuit for 300 years. He has been very active in the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) and is currently Chairman of the CCBE Permanent Delegation to the ECJ. Within the Inn, he has interviewed for the Bristow Scholarship for several years. Hugh is particularly keen to get more junior members of the profession involved in EU and Private International Law.

Professor Kenneth S. Broun (HONORARY)

Henry Brandis Professor of Law Emeritus of the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Law, where he served as Dean from 1979 to 1987, Master Broun is the key connection for the annual mooting competition between Middle Temple student barristers and law students from UNC. He widely published in the field of Evidence and is general editor of the leading U.S. text, McCormick on Evidence. He served on the board of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy for 25 years. He has been a co-ordinator of a programme teaching trial advocacy for the Black Lawyers Association of South Africa since 1986. He was Mayor of the town of Chapel Hill, NC from 1991 to 1995 and contributes his skills as a jazz pianist to help raise money for local charities.

forthcoming Bench calls

Dr Julie Maxton, Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan, Professor Conor Gearty FBA, The Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC FRSA (Hon), The Hon Mr Justice Louis Harms (Hon), and Professor the Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield FBA (Hon) will be Called as Masters of the Bench on Thursday, 18 October 2012. The event is a combined Private Guest Night/Bench Call and counts as a Qualifying Session. All members are invited to attend and may bring a guest.

Philip Brook-Smith QC, Paul Epstein QC and six Ordinary Benchers (tbc) will be Called on Wednesday, 21 November. Julius Drake (Hon) will be Called on Monday, 25 March 2013.

In MemoriAm

His Honour Quentin Edwards QC 16 January 1925 - 19 December 2010 His Honour David Savill QC 18 September 1930 - 22 February 2011 Sir Ronald Waterhouse GBE QC 8 May 1926 - 8 May 2011 Dame Barbara Mills DBE QC 10 August 1940 - 28 May 2011 Michael Pratt QC 23 May 1933 - 21 June 2011 John Grace QC 13 June 1948 - 16 July 2011 Robin Stewart QC 5 August 1938 - 31 August 2011 Claire Miskin QC 27 November 1947 - 27 October 2011 Caroline Harry Thomas QC 23 March 1957 - 21 December 2011 Professor Lord Wedderburn of Charlton QC FBA 13 April 1927 - 9 March 2012 Anthony Barker QC 10 January 1944 - 14 March 2012 Dr John Birch FRCM, FRCO (CHM), LRAM 9 July 1929 - 28 April 2012 His Honour John Toulmin CMG QC 14 February 1941 - 2 July 2012 Rosina Hare QC 7 September 1928 - 8 September 2012

24 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 B OOK R EVIEW Expanding the Horizons

Review by Master Andrew Longmore

his is a remarkable book and I He has also shown that he is the felt my own horizons expanding perfect example of the Bishop of Twidely as I read it. John London’s (Master Chartres) distinction Toulmin, barrister, Bencher, judge (and between what we can learn from the as many readers will know, my past (History) and how we should be treasured friend) has generously shared planning for the future (Destiny). His his life with the readers of this book articles on the Worldwide Legal and what a life it has been. Starting in Profession and a Worldwide Code of 3 Pump Court with a predominantly Professional Ethics strike a coherent Western Circuit practice and then chord with his February 2008 Lent moving to what was then Maurice Reading entitled “Middle Temple and Drake QC’s chambers in 4 Paper the Future” (and his report in Autumn Buildings, he became a judge in 1997 of that year) to give a blueprint in of what in due course became the TCC relation to the future development of but there is scarcely a mention of those law and lawyers both national and far more straightforward than I expect it years. The book is instead packed with international. was. inside information about many other One of the most interesting and I should perhaps have explained at things including John’s experiences as unexpected sections of the book deals the outset that the book, after printing President of the Council of the Bars and with John’s membership of the the glowing valedictory speeches made Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) and Maudsley and Bethlem Hospitals on his retirement, recounts John’s Chairman of the Trustees of the Management Board, the Institute of experiences in relation to seven or eight Academy of European Law (ERA). Psychiatry (IOP) and King’s College institutions with which he has been The overview of the lengthy Council as member and latterly intimately associated: 1) the consultations and delays in confirming Chairman of the Governance of that Technology and Construction Court; the rights of lawyers to establish Council for a period of 30 years until 2) the CCBE; 3) the ERA; 4) the themselves in other EC countries is 2009. His interest in mental illness and Hospitals Board together with the IOP; particularly illuminating. In 18 short tireless labour on behalf of all these 5) the Council of King’s College sections John describes the history institutions shines out from his London; 6) Middle Temple; and between 1972 when we joined the EU descriptions of medical and legal 7) The Temple Church and its Choir and 22 March 2001 when he gave the colleagues. It is also an illuminating (now Church) Committee. The last keynote speech at the inauguration of history of the Thatcherite and institution in the author’s affection is the European Circuit. It is a model of subsequent reforms of the National his and Carolyn’s vineyard in Auxey- lucidity about what may be to some an Health Service for those whose Duresses which has produced not only intractable subject. With all due memories are short and in need of a some alarmingly good wine (if my modesty he reveals his own crucial speedy reminder of those difficult memory of his Reader’s Feast serves contribution in the course of a low-level years. His description of how funds me correctly), but also this book itself, meeting which resulted in the enshrin- built up over years, put to central use written in that vineyard’s tranquillity. ing in the Gatt Round of the paramount and then squandered is heartbreaking. The envoi is by Sir Konrad Schiemann, duty of lawyers to the court in litigation But the rise of concern about and, the British judge on the European Court and the duty of professional ultimately, the obtaining of better of Justice, who describes the dream he responsibility in advisory work which funding for mental health services is had while clasping a glass of Clos can override the duty to one’s client. nothing if not exhilarating. Toulmin in his hand. The dream itself When, moreover, towards the end of the The practising barrister will be has only to be read to be believed. negotiations there was a proposal to particularly interested in John’s drop legal services from the reflections on judging, mediation and negotiations altogether, it was our John case management of complex civil Expanding the Horizons: On Active who explained how disastrous that litigation. He even recalls his Service in Law and Education is would be for the worldwide legal experience in the first TCC Early available in hardback for £25.00 from profession. Neutral Evaluation by making it sound Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 25 T HREE ROYAL P ORTRAITS A Tale of Three Royal Portraits

by Master Marilynne Morgan, Lent Reader

bove the staircase in Middle Temple Library hangs, most famous painters of his day. Described by his friend Lord probably largely unnoticed, a full length portrait of Leighton as “England’s Michelangelo”, and widely regarded Athe Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, by Frank Holl. as a giant of a man, Watts was a fine portraitist and the painter In the Parliament Chamber is a head and shoulders portrait of of huge, allegorical compositions (his Hope is President Edward VII by Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope. There is a Obama’s favourite painting, and Nelson Mandela had a copy connection between these two portraits and a third by George of Hope in his cell on Robin Island) and a remarkable sculptor Frederick Watts which now hangs in Charterhouse School. often of large scale pieces (his Tennyson looms outside George Frederick Watts OM (1817-1904) was one of the Lincoln Cathedral and his Physical Energy dominates a stretch of Hyde Park). The Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, by Frank Holl His first marriage, which was annulled, was to the actress Ellen Terry, but later he married my husband’s great-great- aunt, Mary Fraser-Tytler, herself an artist of note. They built a remarkable house and studios, called Limnerslease, in Compton, Surrey. Mary’s passion was pottery and it was from Limnerslease that she trained more than seventy local villagers (mostly women) in terracotta modelling. With their help she created the remarkable Watts Chapel at Compton in terracotta, beautifully decorated inside in gesso. It is a unique legacy of the Watts’ philanthropy and belief in art for all. Towards the end of Watts’ life he and Mary built the Watts Museum at Compton to display his pictures, especially his allegorical works (he was dismissive of his own often superb portraits which he regarded as his “potboilers”). He died shortly after the Gallery opened. Mary continued to live at Compton until her death and devoted herself to preserving her husband’s memory, not least by cataloguing all his works. Her catalogue records that in 1874 Watts was commissioned by the Benchers of Middle Temple to paint “a portrait of their member HRH The Prince of Wales” after he had “just recovered from his nearly fatal illness” in 1871. At the time the Prince of Wales was the Inn’s ‘Senior Bencher’, the equivalent of what we now call our Royal Bencher. Mary’s catalogue continues, “Mr Watts responded with unusual readiness to their request to be the painter. Though charmed by the personality of the Prince, he was not a good subject for Mr Watts’ sense of form. The sittings were delayed and not always in the same light; it was shown and met with severe criticism. Mr Watts suggested Mr Holl for painter, claimed the picture and returned the cheque.” Quite when this happened is not clear (Middle Temple Parliament Minutes are a little erratic at this time), but it

Marilynne Morgan CB was Called to the Bar in 1972 and as a Bencher in 2002. She had a long career in the government legal service and retired from the Department for Work and Pensions in 2008. She delivered her Reading “Using your skills in different ways” in Hall on 21 February 2012. She is currently Chairman of the Inn’s Catering Committee. Photograph Christopher Christodoulou

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seems that the Benchers accepted the cheque, and the Archivist at the Middle Temple, for helping to unravel this recommendation, for the Holl portrait on the staircase was story. I am also grateful to my husband, Nick Morgan, for painted in 1884. Curiously, however, Watts completed his spotting the entry in Mary Fraser-Tytler’s catalogue in the first portrait and even had it exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in place. For more information visit www.wattsgallery.org.uk. 1882. It languished in the stack of the Watts Museum until Portrait of the then Prince of Wales by G.F. Watts, before recently adopted by Charterhouse School, restored and hung conservation. Reproduced by kind permission of the Watts Gallery in the school library. What is remarkable is that the two pictures are so alike. They show the Prince of Wales in similar stances, in evening dress wearing a Bencher’s gown and the Order of the Garter. In the Holl portrait he is seen against the background of the Hall screen, a detail commented on favorably in a recent review of Middle Temple Portraiture in Counsel magazine. The Watts portrait has the Prince of Wales standing unusually beside a comfy chair – perhaps such was the furniture in the Bench Apartments of the day. The story does not quite end there. The late Queen Mother, our former Royal Bencher, was apparently not keen on the Holl portrait (and knew nothing of the Watts portrait). She said as much to the Treasurer of the day and told him she would arrange for the Inn to have the loan of a better one from the Royal Collection – hence the posthumous portrait of Edward VII, commissioned by George V, by Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope which hangs in the Parliament Chamber. Although Watts’ connection to Middle Temple was perhaps not a happy one Edward VII by Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope (whereas Royal Collection Trust Lincoln’s Inn ©Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2012 boasts a large Low Res Pic Photograph Christopher Christodoulou mural by him), a visit to the stunningly restored Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey is highly recommended. By coincidence next year the Gallery is having a Frank Holl exhibition. I am indebted to Mark Bills, Curator of the Watts Museum, and to Lesley Whitelaw,

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3RD JUNE 2012 Thames River Pageant by Master Jeremy McMullen

ne thousand boats cruised down the Thames to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The flotilla Owas divided into ten squadrons from traditional rowing craft to narrow boats, Dunkirk Little Ships and river- working boats. At the head was the manpower squadron of 150 rowed boats and 50 kayaks. Over 4,000 people applied to take part in the flotilla, the largest ever to take place on the Thames. Lord Salisbury, a former cabinet minister who fronted the organising of the event, told me his hardest task was refusing entries. The consolation prizes for unsuccessful applicants were ticketed places on some of the bridges. Ours was the smallest boat, the only two-person scull, a French-built fibreglass Yole, fewer than four metres, with sliding seats, outriggers, keel and a makeshift mast for the pennant. The boat is self-baling, ideal for estuary and open sea rowing and the lower Thames. We were a composite crew: Mark Watters from Sons of the Thames and me from Putney Town Rowing Club, an Irish/South African monarchist and English republican. We proudly sported blazers (courtesy of Master Peter Cowell) and boaters in Putney livery, and blades in Sons colours. We trained for five weeks but we are both regular Tideway scullers. We had to carry food, water and weatherproof clothing to last us the seven hours afloat, as well as (and I know you are wondering) the indispensable and disposable HeWee. The procession was for seven miles but the total row from Chiswick to Canary Wharf was seventeen miles. We had the current, about one knot, but with the Thames Barrier closed we did not have the outgoing tide which runs at about four knots. Nevertheless, it was not the Lake Thames promised by Lord Salisbury. The security and safety were impressive so as to avoid opportunistic swimmers, and worse. At 11 am we put our boat out in bright sunshine. All the way down from Hammersmith the channel was lined by small cruising boats dressed overall and full of cheerleaders. At Wandsworth we tied up on buoys and changed into our No. 1s doing last minute checks, eating (and hygiene). Then Gloriana, the bespoke royal row-barge, pulled out and we rowed in formation nine abreast, fifteen in file towards Westminster. At Albert Bridge we passed Master Boris Johnson’s pleasure palace and received his languid waves on our turbulent sea. Then we passed right under the Queen’s inspection bridge on the Spirit of Chartwell with of course our Royal Bencher Master Prince William on board. At the proper command of “Manpower Squadron: Toss Oars!” we put oars in the air to Photograph Owen Humphreys/PA Wire/Press Association Photograph Owen Humphreys/PA Wire/Press

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God Save the Queen

by Master Robin Griffith-Jones

saluted the Queen. Given the precarious nature of this n Sunday, 3rd June 2012, before the Diamond Jubilee waterborne action our serious practice paid off and we Pageant, the choir, congregation and children of the somehow stayed the right side of the water. OTemple Church laid on a special Jubilee celebration Downstream we poured as the rains started. You may have for a crowded church. We heard music from royal occasions seen the pictures but you cannot imagine the noise. Even over the ages. With the music went fittingly royal words: an with one hundred metres of open water either side, the roar account of the Queen’s river procession in 1533; Cranmer’s from the ten-deep crowds on the banks was deafening. With praise of the Princess Elizabeth from Henry VIII; and Queen that, the horns of the moored ships, the hooters of the trains Victoria’s diary of her own coronation. (The bishops, I regret on the bridges, and the many bands, I could hardly hear to say, do not come out of it well.) Mark’s steering instructions two feet behind me. And the high point of the morning: twenty-five children We were delighted to see the turnout at Temple Gardens acted out (in abbreviated form!) the Coronation of 1953. To although reciprocal recognition was, I hope understood, hear the words, watch the drama, “see” the young Queen, clad limited. We rowed past the now deserted EAT and on to all in gold, anointed with Holy Oil under a golden canopy – Southwark Crown Court where colleagues and former this was an unforgettable ten minutes, moving and inspiring customers teamed the roof. There The Guardian shot its front together. So the Temple Church, just for once, abandoned the page with our boat clearly identifiable in the middle. Book of Common Prayer; I promise the Inns I will not use Steering in such tight waters was the hardest thing. All this very special morning as a precedent for more such was good natured except for dismissive comments from a delinquency in future years! bloated Warden of what we think was the Lard Stirrers Livery Company, over-caparisoned in a splendid barque high above us, who barked commands to us as only a man who had never been on the tideway could. After seventeen miles we pulled into Millwall dock where we found the only weakness in the organisation. We were all soaked, our boaters fitting like balaclavas. Many had to be treated by the ambulance services. But warm clothes and Guinness improved our spirits and sense of satisfaction. Only one boat went in and had to be rescued. Would we do it again? Yes! We could have rowed back the next day, and are ready for the next Pageant. In fact, we did accompany Gloriana on 27 July in the last etape of the Olympic torch relay together with Master Peter Cowell, for part of the way from Hampton Court to Tower Bridge.

Mark Watters (bow) and Master Jeremy McMullen (stroke)

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Walton’s Orb and Sceptre to start with, his Crown Imperial to end; and in between, Zadok the Priest, I was Glad, and the National Anthem in a new setting by Master John Rutter, all under James Vivian’s direction with the choir, the King’s Trumpeters – and the congregation – raising the roof of the Temple Church. It was a fitting celebration, we hope, of The Queen’s sixty years of service on the throne. Most moving and uplifting of all, however, was Master Judge’s address on Her Majesty’s fortitude (below). He referred to the speech that she broadcast on her 21st birthday, 21 April 1947, from Cape Town. Thanks to the radio, she said: “I can make my solemn act of dedication with a whole Empire listening. I should like to make that dedication now. It is very simple. I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me, as I now invite you to do: I know that your support will be unfailingly given. God help me to make good my vow, and God bless all of you who are willing to share in it.”

ere in Temple Church, It is no exaggeration to suggest that Why does this have anything to do this Mother Church of the during the celebrations the weekend with the Temple Church? The Church Common Law, here in the before last there was an outpouring of is filled now as it has been for hundreds H then new building in the affection, respect, admiration and joy of years with judges, former judges, winter of 1214-1215 for the Queen. Yet each member of the and part-time judges, men and women, where the Master of the Temple crowds had his own or her own who have exercised or are exercising assisted King John and his rebellious personal reason for participating in the judicial responsibilities, and those who barons to thrash out the terms of the celebrations. There were those of my appear or appeared as advocates in settlement which reached its climax at parents’ generation, the generation front of those judges. Runnymede in June 1215, we are which endured the casualties and A month or so ago, I heard myself pausing for a moment to celebrate the hardships of the Second World War, talking to the JAC and telling them that Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen who remembered the beautiful young of course I wanted decent, patient and Elizabeth II, whose visits to the Temple Princess so vividly evoked in Winston wise men and women to be appointed Church are shown in the Service Sheet. Churchill’s speech in February 1952, to the bench, but I added, quite Perhaps we should begin by grieving for the loss of a beloved deliberately, that among all the positive reflecting that during her long reign the father, simultaneously assuming the qualities required of the candidates, momentum for change has been mantle of heavy responsibility – and they should look for fortitude. And irresistible and the speed of change has there were their great grandchildren, why? Simply because every judge been explosive. I venture to suggest some of whom were too young to have requires fortitude, inner strength. that this has been a reign in which more any real idea about what was being Judicial responsibilities are not easy. has changed more rapidly for more celebrated, but who, as children do, The decisions we have to make are people than ever before in the history were certainly willing to have fun if the sometimes profoundly painful. of this nation and indeed in the history grown ups were bright and cheerful. Sometimes it is necessary to sentence a of mankind. Yet during all that change, Just about everything that could be man to imprisonment when you know since 1952 our Head of State has been said and written about Her Majesty was that his wife and family believe unchanged. said and written – indeed on occasions passionately that he is innocent of the much speculative psycho-babble and crime. Sometimes you have to separate Master Igor Judge creative impertinence about the royal children from one or other, or even both family was relied on to make good any parents, a catastrophe to avoid a worse shortfall in the knowledge of the writer one, a decision which is life-changing or the speaker. Nevertheless, in all the for every single member of the family enthusiastic commentary, I missed any involved. Sometimes you have to lengthy reference to an old fashioned, safeguard the rights of a profoundly nowadays much underrated quality – unpopular individual, sometimes indeed yet one of the cardinal virtues the rights of an individual who has been identified by the Christian faith – demonised. All these decisions create fortitude. If I may say so with the their own burdens, and some generate greatest respect, it is fortitude that has public opprobrium. Inner strength is struck me as a particular feature of this needed to weather the storm which may long reign, and about which I want to follow, a storm which is sometimes say just a little more. more painful to the family of the judge

30 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 than to the judge himself or herself, but judgment, but the Crown remains the easy it is for fortitude to be taken for for whom the pain suffered by the fountain of justice. We are not the granted. It is fortitude that enabled the family creates a very special kind of Prime Minister’s Judges, nor the fulfilment of the solemn act of pressure of its own. And of course, Government’s Judges, nor even dedication and service made by the 21 sometimes we reach the wrong Parliament’s Judges. We are Her year old Princess Elizabeth in 1947. decision, but without for one moment Majesty’s Judges. Surely, in this long reign we have been thereafter being able to take refuge in During the long years of the reign privileged to witness for ourselves an hesitation. we have been celebrating, inevitably, embodiment of this unsung, underrated, We cannot falter. We must keep on times revolutions have sometimes but spectacular human quality. For making our decisions, doing right, produced moments of real difficulty, those involved in the administration of according to law, in every case, and indeed sharp criticism. So not justice – in whatever capacity – this conscientiously, without fear or favour every moment of the long reign has ancient church is the appropriate place affection or ill will. To do this case by been comfortable. Fortitude has been in which to give thanks for it. case, day by day, year by year, requires needed. At all times. inner strength and depth of character. Let me but take a simple example Fortitude is a virtue for which from last weekend. We all know that trumpets should be sounded, but the Duke of Edinburgh was taken ill. because those who are blessed with it Did it occur to us for one moment that tend not to sound their own trumpets, it the Queen would not attend the concert is in truth a self-effacing quality, on Monday evening or the service at St perhaps overwhelmed by our modern Paul’s on the Tuesday morning? Did it tendency to relish and respond to the occur to anyone of us that at her age, clarion call. And fortitude has a further bereft of her husband’s support, she ingredient which is not always fully in might just have found it a little accordance with the modern world. troublesome, or perhaps have been Fortitude does not run with the ebbs unable to do both? I doubt if it and flows of easy popularity and the occurred to any of us for one moment fickleness of fashion. It is neither time that she would not be there, as planned. serving nor time pleasing. Whereas Did it occur to you? Why ever not? fashion is transient, and populism brief, My answer is that this is a tiny fortitude takes its stand on principle and example why our current celebrations principle is unchanging. represent, among other things, the Nowadays, unlike King John, Her triumph of fortitude, and Majesty the Queen does not sit in simultaneously, they underline how

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2012 OLYMPICS The Best of Britain

by Master Shami Chakrabarti

s we all became swept up in our beloved NHS. Behind the scenes, Games have been all about the the spectacle and celebration of Danny Boyle created a friendly achievements of the athletes. And this Athe thirtieth Olympiad, it was a atmosphere of democratic cooperation is exactly as it should be. However, in true delight to see modern Britain and communal effort, where sport, as in society, when we get the represented so well. At Liberty we schoolchildren, celebrities and hundreds underlying values and rules (dignity, watched the build-up to this huge of volunteers worked together to ensure equal treatment and fairness) right, they national event with some, perhaps a faultless display. become second nature and allow for inevitable, trepidation. Would the Holding the Olympic flag alongside other feats of human achievement to brand police stamp down on small eight rather more deserving bearers was take centre stage. The rule of law that traders and sports fans with the wrong as inspiring as it was intimidating. It is so cherished in the Temple and by all t-shirts on? Would peaceful protest be was an enormous honour to stand Liberty members can sometimes seem properly safeguarded? The fear was alongside Ban Ki-Moon, Muhammad like a dry and distant concept to those that the formidable task of ensuring a Ali, Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah outside. Yet democracy without this safe and secure Games might allow Gbowee of Liberia, fellow Liberty foundation would be as impossible as traditional British liberties to fall by the member and friend Doreen Lawrence, the Olympics without rules and referees wayside. There were brief moments and Sally Becker, who saved so many to govern the vigorous competition. when this worry became reality. For children’s lives in war-torn Bosnia. The The sporting drama has proved a example, a group of cyclists were met humility and humour of this group was mirror of wider society in another way, with lamentably heavy-handed policing wonderful to witness. Doreen too. Patriotism can be a double-edged when they were kettled and then Lawrence was surprised that Danny sentiment, especially when it is couched arrested in Stratford on the night of the Boyle knew who she was, while Sally in the language of exclusivity-of opening ceremony. Becker regaled us all with her stories of “them” and “us”. But Team GB Yet the overwhelming legacy of the driving an ambulance under fire. It was reflected a Britain that is as diverse as it Games has been that of positive and a brilliant reminder of the human is talented. This has fostered a positive inclusive patriotism happily co-existing behind every hero. and inclusive patriotism that has been a with an inspiring internationalism. The Having been lucky enough to take joy to share. It has made the spirit of opening ceremony set the tone, part in the wonderfully idiosyncratic the Games all the more infectious even showcasing a tableau of British and brilliantly British opening to former and natural sceptics. Yes, we eccentricity and achievement that ceremony, I watched the excitement are proud to celebrate the many ranged from Shakespeare and the grow with every event. Importantly, astonishing achievements of Team GB, Industrial Revolution to Mr Bean and from their inception the Olympic but more than this, we are proud to celebrate the modern society that the Team reflects. In this way, the Games have demonstrated our complexity for what it is – one of the greatest strengths of modern Britain. Not only have we seen how nationality goes beyond background and birthplace, the Games gave us the chance to celebrate the achievements of ordinary people with extraordinary talents. London 2012 has ensured that a generation of British children are spoilt for choice in the array of positive and gifted role models available to them. Long may this continue. For those few weeks, we were riveted by displays of fair play, solidarity and hard

Photograph Reuters/David Gray work that cannot fail to inspire.

34 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 2012 OLYMPICS Dare to Dream

by Kate Jenrick, Head Gardener, Olympics Volunteer

aving been involved in athletics men’s semi-final 200 metre, heat 3, the something, and there was often since I was 12, and still race that featured Usain Bolt. Banner someone not quite ready – number re- Hinvolved in coaching and duty again for Mo Farah in his 5000 pinning or a last minute dash to the loo. officiating, my interests for the first metre qualifier, and Phillips Idowu in For field events the stewards stayed week in August this year lay beyond the triple jump. trackside. Officially, we were there to gates of Middle Temple. Once I’d seen There was always a lead steward escort athletes out of the stadium, or, if the Belgians installed in the garden (see and one bringing up the rear. I they finished early, to the Mixed Zone page 36), I was off to the Olympics. preferred following behind as it was (media). Unofficially, we watched the In 2009 I was invited to apply to be usually more interesting because you action on track from the best seats in an Athletics Gamesmaker. Eighteen could observe the athletes moments the house! months later I was accepted and then in before their race: Tyson Gay was like a As for so many, the Olympics have spring 2012 training began – an wound-up spring, a female hammer- been an unforgettable experience – so orientation day at Wembley, a training thrower was knocking back sachets of much excitement, making many new day at the Olympic Park in friends and working with March and three days at some athletes from years the test event, the British gone by. My highlights? Universities For the sublime Championships in May. experience: sitting in an My role was Athletes’ empty stadium 48 hours Steward. At the test event before day one of the the role was divided into athletics, waiting for the two teams. I had a dress rehearsal to start; behind-the-scenes role plenty of practising of walking the athletes from kit-box carrying, hurdle the first call room to the moving, sound testing final call room, a distance and flag ceremonies, but of 500 metres one way – the stewards were not although Usain Bolt required so I watched secured a buggy for Bradley Wiggins win the himself and the rest of the time trial on the big 100m finalists for the trip! screen and had time for And that is what I told all photos under the my friends – behind the Olympic flame; similarly, scenes only. spending time at the Happily, on the first day warm-up track, waiting of the athletics the teams for the evening shift to were merged so after the start and watching world walk to the final call room, class athletes warming I took the athletes out into up or just hanging out the stadium. My first and chatting to us (the event was the women’s Jamaicans in particular heptathlon (and duties were happy to chat!). included escorting Jessica But for sheer never- Ennis to the Ladies’ and again-to-be-experienced: carrying Katarina Super Saturday – three Thompson’s bag). Olympic Gold medals for Banner carrying was Britain in one hour – it shared between us. I was just as you hear carried the banner for the people describe.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 35 2012 OLYMPICS Belgium House at Middle Temple

arly on, the Belgian Paradise, complete with glass-sided formally opened on 27 July by HRH International Olympic pods with fixed bicycles and screens Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, ECommittee contracted to use showing scenic cycle rides through the Prince of Belgium and Princess Inner Temple as the venue for their VIP Belgian provinces; Middle Temple Hall Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant. hospitality during Olympic fortnight. played host to a giant TV screen During Olympic fortnight, some They then approached Middle Temple showing live Olympic action, complete 40,000 visitors made the journey to about using our space for Belgians with stalls selling Belgian waffles; and Middle Temple. The late night music visiting London, where they could soak our garden, which was well-stocked and noise from over-exhuberant up the Olympic atmosphere and with Belgian beer and frites, became the Belgian revellers were not welcomed celebrate together the many medals Grand Place of the Embankment. by our residents for obvious reasons, they hoped to win. Upon the arrival of a lycra-clad Eddy especially on those evenings when the Thus, Fountain Court was trans- Merckx, who had cycled all the way Belgian athletes returned to Hall after formed into the Belgian Cycling from Brussels, Belgium House was winning a medal; however, many of our members were spotted soaking up the atmosphere and sampling a glass or two of Stella Artois – and within just two weeks, Belgium House had been named on BBC radio as the most popular National Olympic House in London. Thanks are due to the residents and tenants of Middle Temple who put up with so much noise and inconvenience during the Belgian residency; and to our staff – Colin Davidson and his team in particular – who made it possible for us to host an Olympic House. The proceeds will be put to very good use and, we hope, will enable us to create tangible benefits for the Inn, its students and members. 2012 PARALYMPICS After the warm up . . .

by Master Bernard Richmond, Paralympics Volunteer

he text from Christa came as I various competition schedules and, in was provided for every ten-hour was in the middle of a tricky due course, results schedules and dealt session and there was plenty of free tea Tconversation with the Ukranian with enquiries. These were many and and coffee available. There were also Judo Coach. “Adrian Whitfield varied ranging from “How do I get to copious amounts of free sweets on thought you looked a bit like a the Tower of London?” and “Do you offer. Ruritanian cinema attendant in your know of anything which can get blood The strange thing about the uniform”. I didn’t divulge the contents out of a judo suit?” to “Do you know volunteer force is that they were to said Judo coach, concentrating where I can purchase a judo suit which ALWAYS smiling. It was infectious. instead on his request for packed corresponds with Rule 50 and can be No matter how irritating things lunches for his competitors on the day delivered tomorrow?” In case you’re became or how tired one felt, it of competition. wondering, it’s “Get the DLR from became natural to smile at people Being a volunteer at the Paralympics Stratford to Tower Hill”; “Cool salt – especially a fellow volunteer. has been an amazing experience. As water and bleach”; and “Here’s a list of The Paralympics have been one of “sports specialist” volunteers four suppliers”. I still think that the a moving and energising (judo – yes, really!), I was allocated to answer to the Rule 50 question is “Well, experience. For those of us the “Sports Information Team – Judo”. it’s an interesting point of construction who believe in and are This meant that I would be based in the which depends, ultimately, on the committed to inclusion, it has Athletes’ Village for most of the time, meaning of the word ‘sleeve’”, but I been an opportunity to see with one day at the competition venue, was outvoted. I also spent a lot of time what this really Excel. photocopying, looking things up and means. It is, in The Olympic/Paralympic Village making tea. It was just like pupillage. the final was an impressive place. It was built A particular challenge was that many analysis, with the Paralympics in mind, so that of the participants spoke no English. about the facilities were accessible and easy Of course, one could organise an attitude and to use. For the athletes and their interpreter but this would have required commitment to the coaches, the Village (more the size of a some patience, which was not often in idea rather than words. small town) had everything they evidence. One of my favourite It has been a joy and an needed, most of it free. There was a memories of the Games is the animated education to be in a place huge dining hall, offering many and friendly conversations I had with where disabled and able- different kinds of international cuisine, the Cuban coach as we coped with my bodied (I dislike both of cafes, bars (no alcohol), general shops, rusty O-level Spanish. For my efforts, I these terms but can a salon, dry cleaners, post office and a received the ultimate accolade which an think of no others) live florist. The gym was state-of-the-art athlete or coach can bestow – a national and work together in and a video editing suite allowed pin badge. These are greatly prized by equality, dignity and competitors and coaches to obtain the volunteers; some, for example harmony. DVDs of television footage of their China, are particularly well-regarded. I have already performances and, importantly, those of By the end I had GB, China, Cuba, applied to volunteer at their opponents. An on-site polyclinic Sweden, USA and Chinese Teipei. the 2012 Commonwealth (which will become a health centre Each of them holds a special memory Games in Glasgow and, after the Paralympics) was, in truth, a for me of a conversation or an event. I gather, that they’ll small hospital. It was also the place I also had a range of gifts and need 60,000 where the on-site doping tests took rewards which were given to volunteers volunteers in Rio... place. during and at the end of their service. The Sports Information Team was We certainly worked for our rewards. responsible for assisting the athletes Shifts were between eight and ten hours and coaches with their training and in length and started either at 6.30 am competition needs. In judo, this meant or 3.30 pm. The 3.30 pm session that we booked training sessions for the finished at 11.00 pm (often followed by countries, provided them with the a 6.30 start the next day). A free meal

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Call, but noting a provision allowing MT Olympian Call in his absence. A footnote to his letter reads, “Being kept very busy in this sector!” and he was being kept Arnold Strode-Jackson busy enough to earn one of his DSOs on 13 May 1918 and a Mention in Dispatches on 24 May. He finished the by Master Rodger Bell war, at the age of twenty-eight, a full Colonel, acting Brigadier. There is no record of him practising n this London Olympic year it is holiday to travel to Stockholm and at the Bar. He was a member of the timely to remember a Middle enter the 1500 metres. The competition British delegation at the Paris Peace ITemplar who won Gold in the was stiff, especially from the USA Conference, 1919, for which he was Stockholm Olympics of 1912, one which included the current world 1500 awarded the CBE. He married an hundred years ago. metres and Mile record holders among American lady and emigrated to the Arnold Strode-Jackson was born in its four entrants. The Americans ran a States in 1921. He took some part in 1891 and educated at Malvern College tactical team race, running abreast public life over there, and directed the before going up to Brasenose College, down the home straight, but Arnold ran first Kentucky Derby Festival in 1935. Oxford, to read law in 1910. He was a the extra distance to round them and He did important work in World War II, good all-round sportsman but began to finish a clear metre ahead. It was the but not on active service, of course, and concentrate successfully on running. first time he had run anti-clockwise on became a U.S. citizen in 1945. He won the Mile in the 1912 Oxford a track; Oxford athletes then ran in a He returned to England in 1963, after Cambridge Sports at a time when the clockwise direction on their eccentric his wife died, and lived in Oxford until two universities provided a Iffley Road track. After his unexpected he died in 1972. In the middle 1960s considerable proportion of the country’s victory he returned to undergraduate he occasionally turned out to watch best athletes, but he was not selected athletics, but he ran very few races Thames Hare and Hounds cross-country for the Olympics and he went on a before the Great War broke out in races on Wimbledon Common, joining fishing holiday to Norway. Private 1914. the runners for a pint afterwards in the entries were, however, permitted (for His war was even more King’s Head at Roehampton. That is the last time, in those Games) and extraordinary than his where I met him. He was tall and he broke off his Stockholm adventure. He upright, still, though with a limp from served on the western front his war wounds, quietly preferring to with the King’s Royal Rifle hear about whomever he was talking to, Corps and was awarded the rather than to recall his own exploits. DSO no less than four times He was surprised, and quietly amused, I (DSO and Three Bars), and think, to hear of the heavy training had six additional Mentions which even university and club runners in Dispatches, for gallantry, did fifty years after his time. He did leadership and devotion to say that he and his teammates went to duty in what, from the Hove to do some special training for citations, was bitter Oxford Cambridge matches, but under fighting at close quarters. cross-examination this turned out to He was wounded three involve brisk walks and races in hotel times, and his injuries bath chairs along the front. By all would have put an end accounts I have read, his training for to his athletic career, Olympic glory involved mostly whatever he wished. walking, with occasional fast, but short, He was Called to runs, daily massages and a bit of golf. the Bar in April 1918. Master Jeremy McMullen met him at In a handwritten his Oxford home in 1968, and was letter from him in served the strongest gin and tonic he the Inn’s archives, has ever been given, in a silver goblet dated 21 March with his gold medal impressed in it. He 1918, he expressed died four years later, in 1972. Modest the hope to get as he was, he would be pleased, I think, leave to attend his to be remembered by his Inn today.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 2012 CULTURAL O LYMPIAD The Globes at the British Museum

by Lesley Whitelaw, Archivist

he Middle Temple’s Molyneux Shakespeare was familiar with the and because they were a celebration of Globes have joined The intellectual culture of the Inns of Court. the latest discoveries of English TJudgement of Solomon on loan Not only would he have been navigators and explorers. Drake’s to the British Museum for the major acquainted with the Inn’s literary circle circumnavigation is traced across the exhibition, Shakespeare: Staging the of poets and dramatists, but the first oceans, Ralegh’s Virginia settlement is World, which is part of the 2012 recorded performances of Twelfth Night recorded and Elizabeth I’s arms are Cultural Olympiad. This excellent and the Comedy of Errors took place in emblazoned across North America with exhibition is a must for anyone with an an Inn (Middle Temple and Gray’s Inn triumphant national pride that was interest in Shakespeare’s plays and respectively). His kinsman, Thomas clearly intended to send a message to Elizabethan and Jacobean history. By Greene, was a prominent member of Catholic Spain. Mathematicians and assembling some of the most Middle Temple and it is quite possible geographers such as Hakluyt, Hues, remarkable artefacts from the great that Shakespeare might have seen the Harriot, Blundell and Hood wrote about collections in Britain and abroad, the Globes and The Judgement of Solomon the globes and their works ran to exhibition seeks to illuminate in the Inn over 400 years ago. numerous editions in several languages. Shakespeare’s plays by examining The terrestrial and celestial globes Molyneux’s globes would have been contemporary objects which would were produced by Emery Molyneux in of great interest to Middle Temple’s have helped shape Elizabethan views Lambeth in 1592 and the terrestrial membership which included Sir Walter on a range of subjects explored in the globe was revised in 1603 to show the Ralegh and early explorers of North plays: love, death, travel and very latest discoveries. They were at America like Philip Amadas and exploration and religious, racial and that time the largest globes ever made, Bartholomew Gosnold, as well as Sir national cross-cultural conflicts. much larger than Mercator’s, and the John Popham, Edwin Sandys and all Travel, maritime exploration and the first globes to be made in England. those Middle Templars associated with discovery of new worlds, as well as the They were magnificently engraved by the foundation and administration of the foreigners present in Shakespeare’s the Flemish artist Jodocus Hondius, Virginia Company. The globes were London – Venetians, Jews, Moors and who had immigrated to London. The also a popular sensation in Elizabethan other visitors from Europe, Arabia and collaboration of Molyneux and Hondius London with its fascination with Africa – are a major theme of the marked a brief period of English pre- foreign lands and they were alluded to exhibition. The Molyneux Globes, so eminence in cartography, before both in the Comedy of Errors. It is closely associated with the great men subsequently moved to appropriate they are displayed in this exploits of Elizabethan explorers, naval Amsterdam. The globes caused a exhibition of the man associated with commanders and colonizers, are a sensation when they were published, that most celebrated of theatres – the significant part of the exhibition. both because of their scientific interest Globe.

Photos: Globes, Christopher Christodoulou; Coat of Arms detail, Richard Shellabear

Shakespeare: Staging the World 19 July to 25 November 2012 www.britishmuseum.org.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 39 2012 CULTURAL O LYMPIAD The Judgement of Solomon by Cris Patrick, Conservator

n 2010 the Middle Temple approached the Hamilton Kerr edge, one fainter and apparently earlier than the other. The Institute of the University of Cambridge (HKI) to identity of the artist, however, and even his nationality, remain Iconserve and clean the large panel painting, The a mystery, although he is assumed to be either English or Judgement of Solomon by an unknown artist, which was Flemish. hanging in the Inn’s Parliament Chamber. The painting “has Removal of the repaint also exposed a major early been longer in the possession of the Society than any other reworking of the composition. The central figure of King picture” and is a very rare surviving example in a British Solomon and the lower texts had been completely over- collection of a narrative painting of this date, size and subject painted. At the HKI, the painting was photographed using matter. visible light, ultraviolet, infrared and X-rays, allowing The panel is composed of examination of sub-surface seven boards of oak. detail in the paint layers. Dendrochronology was X-rays and infrared revealed undertaken to date the wood, the original position of King revealing that the boards are Solomon; he was first from the eastern Baltic depicted with his right hand region (as often the case in on his lap, holding his north European painting). sceptre over his right Felling dates of the trees shoulder. His head was suggest that the panel is no tilted down to his right, earlier that 1586, and is glancing towards the likely to pre-date 1602. It is “truthful” mother. an unusually large panel Solomon’s lower body had painting for this period, also been drastically measuring 188 cm by 165 changed; originally his red cm, but only 1-2 cm thick. robe extended down to his When The Judgement of feet, which were visible Solomon arrived at the HKI below the bottom hem. The in December 2010 it cushion on which his feet appeared very drab, brown now rest is also part of this in tone, and lacked any repainting campaign. The dynamism (shown right); Latin texts were extended in little did we know at the size and repainted. time how vibrant it would Unfortunately, the original become. The painting had text is not detectable. It is been restored many times thought the reworking dates previously, including to the seventeenth century; structural repairs to the panel receipts were found in joints and extensive repainting campaigns. Cleaning revealed Middle Temple’s Archive for restoration in 1658-59 when £7 that the all-over dull brown ambiance of the picture was due was paid for “beautifying and repairing” it and in 1698-99 to both old discoloured varnish and extensive thick repaint, when £1 12s 6d was paid for “cleaning and repairing” it and probably applied in the nineteenth century, after injudicious three Stuart royal portraits. It was decided to leave the cleaning had left some of the original in a damaged and repainted version of King Solomon and the revised Latin text abraded condition. The damage may have been a consequence in place. Considering the early date of the repaint it was felt of the painter’s unconventional technique, the use of resin in to be unethical to remove the historical alteration. the oil medium, which was thus more vulnerable to the crude Conservation treatment of The Judgement of Solomon is cleaning methods of the past. now complete. It is currently on display at The British Also uncovered were original (assumed artist’s) initials: Museum’s exhibition, Shakespeare: Staging the World, until two versions of the initials “R.K.” were found at the bottom November 2012, before returning to hang at Middle Temple.

40 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 ©Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. Photographs Chris Titmus.

The Hamilton Kerr Institute, founded in 1976, is a department of the Fitzwilliam Museum, part of the University of Cambridge. The Institute undertakes the conservation of easel paintings, polychrome sculpture and related works of art for national institutions and museums, other public-accessible and private collections, and for the Fitzwilliam Museum. The Institute runs an extensive programme of scientific, technical and art-historical research, hosts early-career internships for recently qualified painting conservators, and holds a number of archives relevant to the history of painting materials, techniques and conservation.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 41 AUTUMN R EADER Autumn Reading International Insolvency and the Common Law by Master Michael Crystal, Autumn Reader

hen I informed the Under that ever was or ever would be, both creditors. The English court refused to Treasurer of the title of my for learning and good cheer”. I do not allow him to do so. He had to claim WReading, her reaction was, propose to attempt to emulate Master along with all the other creditors. “International insolvency sounds like Archer’s Reading over 400 years later. The beginning of the 19th century something to be avoided!” Notwith- And I am sure that my Reader’s Feast saw a further illustration of the standing the Under Treasurer’s well- prepared under the watchful eye of common law’s universalist approach to meaning comment, international Colin Davidson and his team will international insolvency. This time in insolvency sometimes cannot be easily surpass Master Archer’s food the Privy Council in Odwin v Forbes in avoided. The subject is an ever- and wine. 1817. And the law reports of that increasingly important one in the century are full of cases of financial modern, global commercial age. And it Another critical threshold issue is failure and the common law’s will be an important subject for the correlative responsibility of the development of principles for managing aspiring new practitioners coming to insolvencies across the world. the Bar who want to develop a English courts to assist foreign The contribution of the common law chancery or commercial specialisation bankruptcies to international insolvency then reached which is likely to expand over the next a state of arrested development; how- quarter of a century. So why is international insolvency ever, in the last twenty years there have Having sorted out the title of my now so important and what has the been significant advances in the ability Reading, it then became necessary for common law contributed to its of the common law to assist in the me to decide which of my predecessors development? I make some brief resolution of international insolvencies. not to emulate. Here the new History remarks on these topics and will Perhaps the most important of the of the Middle Temple proved discuss them in more detail during the recent decisions is that of the Privy invaluable. Sir John Baker QC Reading itself. Council in Cambridge Gas in 2007. mentions in his fascinating article a Commercial failure has always been Earlier this year, between 21-24 May contemporary comment that Henry around. What is new is the complexity 2012, the Supreme Court heard Archer in 1580 “was the worst Reader of the cross-border issues that arise argument in what will probably turn out when a company is unable to pay its to be the most important case on debts. And where there is an international insolvency to reach the international element (as there now higher appellate courts in this country invariably is) a threshold critical in recent decades. The case is question is whether the principle of Eurofinance. The tribunal comprised universality, or modified universality, chancery and commercial judges or territoriality is to prevail. Another including Master Treasurer. Judgment critical threshold issue is the correlative has not yet been delivered. The responsibility of the English courts to judgment, when delivered, is likely to assist foreign bankruptcies. be of immense significance in the UK The history of the common law’s and also in those overseas territories involvement starts in the middle of the where the common law still governs the 18th century in Amsterdam. In ability of local courts to facilitate the Solomons v Ross in 1764 a firm based administration of international Michael Crystal QC specialises in in Amsterdam was made bankrupt there insolvency cases. If judgment has been commercial and financial law. He is also and assignees were appointed by the delivered before then, I will discuss the a visiting professor of law at University Dutch court. The firm had assets in implications of Eurofinance at my College, London. He will deliver his London. A local English creditor Reading. Reading in Hall on Tuesday, 13 wanted to seize the London assets to I hope that some of you will find November 2012. the detriment of the general body of time to attend my Reader’s Feast.

42 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 WOMEN’ S F ORUM Middle Temple Women’s Forum by Catherine Quinn, Under Treasurer

erhaps it was familiarity with to bring people together for mutual women’s business networks before I support – in this case for women at Pjoined the Inn, or the many the Bar. The Forum provides a references I overheard at Middle Temple meeting place to focus together on to the high proportion of women who some of the key issues identified leave the Bar for one reason or another, as contributing to the but it seemed natural to me that some decision of many women female members of a profession whose to leave the profession in hallmark is independent practice might the prime of their careers. feel the need – at some point in their At our launch event, careers – for a mutual support system. our keynote speaker, There was a gap here, and a gap that the Lady Justice Heather Inn could fill. Hallett, spoke of the Our Treasurer at the time, Master Dawn difficult decisions that Oliver, was hugely supportive of creating she, like other women a new network with the aim to inspire and barristers, had faced in support female members of the Inn the early part of her throughout the course of their careers. We career: the lack of set up a steering group, chaired by Master female role models at Oliver, composed of Middle Templars the time, the across the career spectrum – from three importance of years’ Call to senior Silks – and set out to maintaining the work-life pilot our new venture –the Middle Temple balance, and the significant and very Women’s Forum – in early 2012. positive influence that senior women at the The Forum manifested itself for the Bar can have on those coming up the first time on Tuesday, 6 March this year. career ladder by offering them active We had expected some modest interest and support and mentoring. an audience of around 50. One week Our next event will take place on before the launch date, we had over 350 Thursday, 4 October 2012 and all registrations and numbers were rising. members are welcome to attend. The Hall that night was full. It had been used keynote speaker will be The Hon Mrs for over four centuries as a place for Justice Gloster and the theme of our panel lawyers to gather, learn, and support each discussion will be “Modern clerking: other and, to that extent, nothing had promoting your practice”. changed. The point of difference about After the formal part of the evening, 6 March 2012 was that, on that evening, drinks will be served and those attending more women professionals were gathered will have the opportunity to meet other in Middle Temple Hall than at any other Middle Templars and the members of our time in its 442 year history. This was in Women’s Forum Steering Group. Please stark contrast to a time, just 90 years do feel free to bring a guest: male or previously, when someone by the female, practitioner, judge, head of pseudonym of “MT”, writing in the Pall chambers, clerk or other colleague. The Mall Gazette, asked “Is it really necessary event is free, but registration is essential. that women should be allowed to invade To book, please email Rachel Pydiah at the hall for the purpose of keeping terms?” [email protected] by To my mind, the Inn has wonderful Monday, 1 October and provide your space and a first-class network of name, profession, place of work, and members. We can use both as a catalysts indicate if you are a member of the Inn.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 H ALL M EMBERS Mind the Gap in May and discovered a great deal of by Gary Blaker, Hall Committee Chairman common issues which affect our Inns and committees. We plan to meet twice a year. I hope that this will become a permanent fixture and will lead to all Committee has been busy Committee to be vocal participants on greater co-operation between the four during 2012 in seeking to these committees. We are also taking Inns especially on the question of Hbridge the gap between the real steps to provide different services participation. very junior end of the profession, to the membership of the Inn. Hall Two of the highlights of this year represented by MTSA and MTYBA, Committee was very active in have been the Four Jurisdictions Law and the Masters of the Bench. This is a developing the survey which went out Conference which Middle Temple significant gap, often over 25 years, to all members in June; in fact, we hosted in May and also the Annual and Hall Committee seeks to encourage were used as guinea pigs for the survey Dinner. The conference was a great greater participation in the life of the and I hope our responses proved opportunity for members of Hall and in Inn for all those members falling in helpful. particular the very junior end of the Bar those middle years. At present, Hall Committee has a to take part in what was an I am very fortunate to have an group working on a mentoring scheme exceptionally stimulating conference. enthusiastic committee and I have been and we hope to have a pilot up and Papers were delivered on topical and assisted greatly by my Deputy Chair, running in the very near future. We relevant subjects such as the future of Rebecca Richardson and recently also have a group working on a CPD the referral Bar and legal education and retired secretary, Louisa Nye. We have weekend which we anticipate holding training. It was a real honour for Hall been involved in a wide variety of at some point in 2013. This event will Committee to be involved in the different projects, including assisting not only provide educational content preparation of what proved to be a very the Inn with responses to BSB but will also have a social function thus enjoyable weekend. consultation papers, providing a encouraging all members to come For the Annual Dinner we were member to participate in a working along together with their spouses, blessed with some of the finest late group developing a new website for the partners and families. spring weather and were able to enjoy Inn, and also taking an important role Bridging the gap is not a problem pre-dinner drinks in the garden. We in the governance review. peculiar to Middle Temple. It also had a very broad range of attendees, a The Hall Committee continues to affects the other three Inns. With this large number of Benchers, members of represent the interests of its members in mind I have set up a committee for Hall and students. For the first time we by sitting as representatives on the the chairmen and deputies of all four of decided to allow guests at the dinner. Inn’s standing committees. I have tried the Inn’s non-Bench barrister The feedback received suggested the to encourage members of Hall committees. We had our first meeting guests also really enjoyed the event. We were entertained and informed by Sir Trevor McDonald who spoke about Gary Blaker, Sir Trevor McDonald, Sharon Horwitz, Master Colleen Graffy the important role played by political journalists and regaled us with anec- dotes about meeting Nelson Mandela, George W Bush and Saddam Hussein. There is a great deal more to achieve but I am very pleased to say that the gap is closing. We are thinking about many different ways to increase participation in the life of the Inn. If you feel you can assist in this then please stand in the Hall Committee elections which will be held in November. If any members have any issues that they would like to be raised with the Inn, please contact any Hall Committee member, or me at [email protected].

44 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 H ALL M EMBERS The Young Bar by Barnaby Hone

n the last year the Middle Temple Young Barristers’Association I(MTYBA) has gone from strength to strength, with our membership doubling in that time. We now Gráinne Mellon, Kerry-Anne Currie, Mary Clare Kennedy represent all members of Hall up to those with five years’ post-pupillage standing bond with the Inn, making internship abroad. By doing this we experience. If imitation is the sincerest sure it forms a significant part of hope to help members improve their form of flattery then it must be taken as professional life at the Bar. To help this CVs with the ultimate aim of helping a complement that Inner Temple has cause, in Michaelmas Term 2012 the them gain pupillage. Please sign up to just formed their own Young Barrister’s Inn will be introducing a discount our email list for further details. Association. scheme on all dining tickets and meals MTYBA have lobbied the Inn to In the last twelve months, the at lunch time. We hope you will all recognise post-pupillage experience MTYBA has held a variety of take advantage of it. rather than Call when identifying educational talks which have advised In May 2012 five representatives of criteria for scholarships and discounts. pupils on the different stages of their MTYBA took part in the Four As the squeeze on pupillage has grown, journey, and sought to help those Jurisdictions Law Conference for the so has the length of time between a without pupillage to reach their goal. first time. The aim of the conference member being Called and undertaking Hopefully the advice has been helpful. was to discuss a range of legal and Bar- pupillage. Not only has this meant that There was also a very successful related topics which affected all four the date of Call no longer accurately Advocacy competition this spring. jurisdictions. Each MTYBA reflects seniority, but it has also put an These events have been ably organised representative delivered a paper on one increased financial burden on junior by Caro Cabral, Ali Dewji, and Anthea of the seminar topics. All participants barristers when they can least afford it. Foster. As well as the more serious found it was a particularly rewarding This can be in the region of £800 a events we have also had a number of experience and very much enjoyed year. For that reason MTYBA hope social events, from a Winter meeting representatives from the Bars that Call will be replaced with post- Wonderland social to a Samba evening. of Ireland, Northern Ireland and pupillage experience not only in Middle You might have seen the Lamb-related Scotland. but throughout the rest of the Bar as an posters bringing a little colour to the We have also worked hard with the accurate description of a barrister’s Temple. These events have been Inn on a number of issues which seniority. organised by our hardworking Tenant’s particularly concern the junior Bar. We We aim to increase the amount of Officer, Lewis Preston. will be launching a scholarship scheme events over the next year, especially All of these events are aimed at this autumn for members who have outside of London, and have appointed helping junior members form a long- been Called and wish to carry out an representatives throughout the country. If you would like to be a member of James Mure QC (Scotland), Barnaby Hone (MTYBA President), Conor Kennedy (E&W) MTYBA, regardless of where you are and Master Adrian Whitfield at the Four Jurisdictions Law Conference based, please email our Communications Officer, Christopher Stringer at [email protected]. Our AGM and MTYBA’s second elections will take place this October. The expansion in our activities means that we need more people to help us continue the good work. If you are interested in standing for a role, would like to know what role is available, or what the roles involve, please contact Chris Stringer at the above email address.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 45 S TUDENTS The Plight of the Bar Student and the MTSA Response by William Glover, MTSA President 2011-2012

eptember 2011 saw the the coming academic year. I hope that teams to take part in international beginning of the second year of the body of this article will show the competitions such as the Willem C. Vis Sthe new Bar course, The Bar members of our Inn how we met this Arbitration Moot in Vienna and the Professional Training Course (BPTC). challenge by maintaining previous Phillip C. Jessup International Law With the course costing around £16,000 initiatives and being innovative in the Moot. This year we only entered the at most London BPTC providers, and creation of some of our own. Willem C. Vis Moot: coordinated by HSBC being one of the only banks Donna McDougall and Hannah Bill, our willing to lend (with 7% above their An additional innovation this Mooting Officer and Treasurer base rate for 5 years), many students respectively. The cost benefit of began their studies with a hollow-pit year involved the running of three entering only one international team sensation in their stomach; some say separate mooting workshops this year meant we could finance both due to the nerves, others due to the lack the entry fee and travel costs which of wholesome food available on the At the outset we decided to focus on ensured all those wishing to attend the strict budget that ensued. As if the re-engaging with debating where the moot from within the team could go to financial woes were not enough, the MTSA had previously flourished and Vienna. This funding structure was on Bar Standards Board (BSB) reports that had been flagging in recent years. This the proviso that the team members in 2010-2011, 2,865 individual engagement commenced with Middle would return to train the new cohort in applicants applied for 446 first-six Temple fielding a string of teams at the 2012-2013. We would certainly pupillages providing a success rate of Imperial College Open in the autumn endorse this modus operandi for future 15.6% of applicants being offered of 2011 where the teams finished years to ensure all those wanting to take pupillage in England & Wales. middle of the board. The MTSA part are not prohibited by financial An additional concern last year Debating Officer, Kenneth Cochrane, restrictions. surrounded the BSB centrally set was committed to his duties and An additional innovation this year examinations in Criminal & Civil ensured that we fielded teams in a involved the running of three separate Litigation and Professional Ethics; series of further competitions. This mooting workshops. They were well- students’ fears over this new venture culminated with us winning the Inter- attended, provided training and allowed were well placed since the BSB Inn competition partly organised by those without partners to pair-up decided to change the marking scheme Kenneth in the spring. together over a glass of wine post- in Civil Litigation twenty minutes Mooting is the type of core activity event. We were very grateful to former before the start of the exam. With these in which the MTSA has always Reader Master Stewart-Smith and His multiple concerns in mind the newly participated, both in terms of finding Honour Judge Edmunds QC for their constituted MTSA Committee knew timekeepers for the internal Rosamund time in helping us with these events. that we had a big task ahead of us in Smith Competition, and financing On a more practical level, we have

Hanaa Nuckcheddy, Nicole Thomas (College of Law Rep), Anisah Ahmed (City Law School Rep), Gabriel Adedeji (MTSA Vice-President), and Leah Pitt (MTSA Social Officer), Will Glover (MTSA President) at the MTSA Winter Ball.

46 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 P UPILLAGE The Pupillage Reform

by Master David Blunt

revamped the MTSA website he pupillage problem has been • To facilitate and encourage the (www.middletemplestudents.com) so as exacerbated in recent years by a increase of available pupillages as to facilitate easier changes to the Treduction, as a consequence of soon as possible. material. We have pages about dining the squeeze on fees, in the recruitment • To establish a scheme whereby and selecting BPTC providers as well needs of chambers engaged principally funds can be made available or as information on our core activities. on publicly-funded work, and the obtained from the Inns and others An additional innovation this year has changes in the Solicitors Regulating and distributed to chambers to involved many a late Sunday night Authority’s Rules withdrawing from provide funding, or (together with drafting by our Communications barristers any exemptions from the contributions from chambers or Officer, Toshoi Simpson; we decided to qualifying requirements for solicitors. off-set of pupils’ second six- send out a bulletin once per week Without completing pupillage and months earnings) part funding, for throughout the year to student members through Call to the Bar, a barrister such additional pupillages. cannot provide legal services, and can and have found this an immensely • To facilitate and encourage all no longer transfer seamlessly to the useful way of remaining in contact with available steps to source, obtain sister profession. In this situation many our members. I have also been and increase such funding. involved in the Inn’s Governance young barristers with much potential • To facilitate and encourage the Review over the year ensuring that the end up with substantial educationally- introduction and availability of MTSA retains a voice on the Inn’s incurred debts and seeking work as part-time pupillages. standing committees. paralegals. Senior members of the Inn In terms of career events, MTSA have been seriously concerned about • To work with the BSB and the Bar organised a pupillage workshop where this problem – since even before the Council in an endeavour to we had specialist rooms in the Rutledge change in the SRA Rules implemented enhance a principled system of Suite dedicated to specific practice in 2011. waivers of the pupillage funding areas (e.g. Crime, Chancery, Family). The one chink of light (and it is no requirement and to review the Afterwards we held a wine reception more than a chink) is that as a result of scope and application of the and had excellent feedback from both an initiative by the current Treasurer of existing exemptions from that students and practitioners on the Gray’s Inn, Sir Michael Burton, the requirement. success of the event, which would not four Inns, under the auspices of the • To encourage and work with the have been possible without practitioners Council of the Inns of Court (COIC), Employed Bar (including the kindly giving up their evenings, and the set up a working group to try to address Government Legal Services) to work of our Education Officer, Chris the current disparity in the number of enable and facilitate the increase of Bean, and Diversity Officer, Peter those who qualify and those who obtain pupillages available at the Kumar. pupillages. The working group, Employed Bar and of pupillages Middle Temple’s first Jobs and focusing initially on the current shared between a set of chambers Opportunities Fair for Bar students and “blockage” and not on long-term and the Employed Bar. non-practising barristers, law students solutions (since legal education is, of and graduates took place on 1 July. The course, subject to a current review) COIC will need to discuss and exhibitors included legal recruitment made several recommendations in an approve the implementation agencies, freelance advocacy providers, interim report. These received the committee’s recommendations, but the the Government Legal Service, pro general support of COIC on 13 June BSB has responded positively to this bono providers and law schools. The 2012. initiative and has already set up a hugely successful event allowed There is now an implementation working group to review the existing participants to learn about opportunities committee, which I chair. The mem- advertising and funding requirements in for gaining useful experience in their bership includes Master Dawn Oliver the Bar Code. It is hoped that some search for pupillage. The event was and representatives of the other Inns. real progress can be made from also used to raise funds for a new The committee’s terms of reference are: September 2012. initiative, an Intern Fund, to award prizes of £500 to students of the Inn David Blunt QC practises civil law from 4 Pump Court Chambers. He is the Chairman going on international internships. of the Burton Pupillage Information Committee established in 2012.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 47 L IBRARY Manicules, Drôleries and Marginalia

by Renae Satterley, Senior Librarian

ablo de Santa Maria’s Incipit dialogus hystorias complectens by Werner Rolevinck. In this qui vocatur scrutiniu[m] Scripturarum, book, every instance of the word ‘pape’ (pope) has printed in Strasbourg ca. 1470 is the either been crossed out with an ink pen, or earliest printed book in Middle Temple rubbed/smudged out. This historical chronicle of the Library’s Rare Book Collection. The world is illustrated throughout with woodcuts of towns, Library has a small but significant cities, comets and omens. It was a very popular book, collection of incunabula, i.e. books printed between printed in various editions throughout the 15th and 16th 1450 and 1500; the term incunabula (plural) is from the centuries. In addition to this ca. 1495 printing from Latin, and refers to the bands which held the baby in its Lyon, the Library has an earlier edition, printed in 1484 cradle. The library holds 95 titles, making it the largest in Venice. The 1484 edition was donated to the Library collection of incunabula of the four Inns. All of these by William Petyt (1636-1707), who gave approximately titles have been entered into the British Library’s 44 books to the library in 1698, as well as 73 volumes Incunabula Short Title Catalogue of tracts. (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/istc/index.html). As of May 2012, the titles have also been entered into a new database, Material Evidence in Incunabula, which records provenance and marks of ownership in incunabula (http://incunabula.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl). The recording of provenance and ownership details is fast becoming an important feature of early book Other inscriptions show how far some books have research. The documenting of marginalia and notations travelled since they were printed. Our 1475 Codex in early books allows researchers a greater Justinianus, printed in Nuremburg, has an inscription understanding of how these books were read and on the first leaf which reads: “F. Carthusiae Friburgens circulated, and how their ideas were disseminated. By Brisg:”, indicating that this book belonged to the making this information available online and freely Carthusians of Freiburg. It is handsomely bound in accessible, researchers from around the world can learn pigskin over wooden boards. Binding incunabula in more about all recorded copies of incunabula titles. wooden boards was a common practice. Of the 95 incunabula titles in the library, 45 Luckily, the majority of the incunabula collection is belonged to Robert Ashley (1565-1641), the founder of in very good condition. Only a couple of titles are in our Library. The subject matter covered by the need of repair, such as the 1486 Peregrinatio in terram collection is a mix of religious, legal, scientific, and a sanctam by Bernhard von Breydenbach, an illustrated large variety of other subjects. Three of the titles work on Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land. The concern pawnbroking. book was damaged in the past, and is now boxed and in But what do the marginal notes and drawings found a very fragile state; it is therefore an ideal candidate in incunabula tell us about the readers of these early for sponsorship. If you would be interested in books? Some of the marginalia, such as the drôleries sponsoring this, or any other books in the Rare Book found in the 1489 Bible illustrated here, simply show Collection, please contact Renae Satterley at how inventive and artistic some early readers were. [email protected] or 020 7427 4835. The custom of illustrating incunabula with drôleries is probably a continuation of manuscript illumination practices, which often featured such caricatures. A second incunabulum in the collection, St. Jerome’s Vitae sanctorum patrum, printed in Cologne in 1477, has drôlerie figures drawn inside the initial letters. Other instances of marginalia can indicate political and religious views, such as the ca. 1495 Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum

48 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 L IBRARY Tacit Urns 5 July - 9 November 2012 Middle Temple Library

his exhibition, by Sophie Arkette, consists of a collection of glass urns, and is an investigation into the nature of silence, and of the qualities of silence exemplified Tin virtue of each glass receptacle. Each urn ‘contains’ a particular kind of silence, whether it is the mute comedy of Harpo Marx, a two-minute silence, Carthusian silence, or of a silent musical work, which raises a pertinent question in this context: is it possible to legally protect a work that contains no sound? Copyright of silence is a dominant theme in the exhibition, especially in the light of the supposed dispute between Edition Peters (the music publishers of John Cage’s work, notably his silent piece 4’33”) and Mike Batt, who recorded a one minute extract of Cage’s 4’33”.

Of the nature of silence itself, and of one’s perception, a number of questions can be asked: if silence consists in an absence of sound, how might one maintain that an experience of silence is in any sense auditory? Can silence be said to result from abstracting two essential qualities of sound, e.g. pitch and amplitude, such that it consists purely of duration? If hearing requires a sensory object toward which the hearing is directed, is it possible to treat silence as an object of perception?

Donations to the Library Our grateful thanks go to the following Members and individuals who have donated new books to the Library: Master Francis Jacobs for Cases, Materials and Text on Supranational and International Non-Discrimination Law, Europaisches Wettbewerbsrech by Ernst-Joachim Mestmacker and The Application of EC Law in Arbitration Proceedings by Natalya Shelkoplyas; Ruth Jones for The Court, the Atlantic and the City by Michael Franks, John Goldsworth for Private Foundations Law and Practice by John Goldsworth; Master Jan Luba for Cumberland Lodge by Helen Hudson; Master Eric Stockdale for The Oxford Handbook of International Relations by Christian Reus-Smut, and Rebuilding Justice: Civil Courts in Jeopardy and Why You Should Care by Rebecca Kourlis; Master Allen for Family Rights at Work by Robin Allen and Rachel Crasnowk; Simon Brilliant for A Practical Guide to Land Registry Adjudication by Simon Brilliant; Julian Burling for Research Handbook on International Insurance Law and Regulation by Julian Burling and Kevin Lazarus; Mark Hill QC for The Code of Canon Law by Mark Hill, Law and Religion in Theoretical and Historical Context by Eds Peter Crane, Carolyn Evans and Zoe Robinson, and Religion and Law in the UK; His Honour Deemster Doyle QC, Manx Criminal Law and Procedure in the Court of General Gaol Delivery by David Doyle; Martha Dubinsky for Foreign National Prisoners by Martha Dubinsky; Master David Eady for Arlidge, Eady and Smith on Contempt by David Eady and A. Smith; Master Ian Macdonald for Immigration Law and Practice (1st sup) by Ian Macdonald QC, Master Jonathan Mance for Insurance Disputes by Lord Justice Mance, Ian Goldrein and Robert Merkin; Master John Mitchell for Children Act Private Law Proceedings by HHJ John Mitchell; Dr Charles Mynors for The Law of Trees, Forests and Hedges by Charles Mynors and Crispin Agnew; Master Clive Newton for Jackson's Matrimonial Finance by Clive Newton and Deepak Nagpal; Master Guy Roots for The Law of Compulsory Purchase by Guy Roots; Paul Taylor for Taylor on Criminal Appeals by Paul Taylor; Master Peter Thornton for The Law of Public Order and Protest by Peter Thornton; Frances Lincoln Publishers for Charles Dickens at Home by Hilary Macaskill; the late Master John Toulmin for Expanding the Horizons: On Active Service in Law and Education by John Toulmin; Professor Robert Upex for The Law of Termination of Employment by Robert Upex; William and Maggie Vaughan-Lewis for See You in Court: The Potts Family of Mannington by Vaughan-Lewis William and Maggie; Sean Wilken QC for The Law of Waiver, Variation and Estoppel by Sean Wilken; Michael Whincup for Contract Law and Practice: The English System, with Scottish, Commonwealth and Continental Comparisons by Michael Whincup; and Master Colin Edelman for Insurance Claims by Alison Padfield.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 49 B OOK R EVIEW Smith and Hogan’s Criminal Law

Review by Master David Wurtzel

he new, 13th edition of Smith quality of the writing. On its third re- and Hogan’s Criminal Law is writing, Smith and Hogan is now very Tthe third time that Master David much Master Ormerod’s book. If one Ormerod has taken on the solo task of puts the 12th edition next to this one, providing a magisterial view of one can see where he has gone through criminal law with the equally daunting it, again, line by line. Part of the re- prospect of keeping up with all the writing is due to developments in the changes since the last edition. He law since 2008. As the Preface began with the 11th edition, which explains, the spate of cases on joint involved a substantial overhaul. The enterprise (he cites five) has meant a textbook, which has been read by substantial rewriting of the chapter on nearly every law student since 1965, parties to crime; the coming into effect Photograph John Shaw Getty began in Nottingham with Professor Sir a year ago of the relevant sections of John Smith. He shared the burden with the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 has significant ramifications. . . The initial Professor Brian Hogan during the required a rewriting of the sections reaction of the Court of Appeal to latter’s life time and finally in 2000 relating to the defences to murder, and Gomez seems to have been one of invited Professor Ormerod to co-author so on. There are also smaller incredulity”. subsequent editions. Sir John’s death alterations. Even the last line in the Many chapters end with a section in 2002 left it to Master Ormerod to first paragraph has changed from “A called Reform, now of course the carry on alone, which he has done with law book must be concerned with the author’s bread and butter. It not only due respect to the achievements of his legal meaning of crime; and the reader brings one up to date with what the predecessors. He combines this with is entitled to know what it is, or at least Law Commission has proposed but can being a Law Commissioner for England why it is so difficult to tell him” to also be a more general discussion (e.g., and Wales (seconded from Queen Mary “why it is so difficult to describe”. in terms of sexual offences) of where University of London), General Editor This suggests an author who is not the drawbacks and weaknesses appear of Blackstone’s Criminal Practice and a going to be satisfied until he has got to be in existing legislation. This is not valued door tenant of 18 Red Lion everything absolutely right. just an academic’s view but potentially Court. At the same time, there is a vigour, (given what he has said, above, about succinctness (even at over 1100 pages) the behaviour of “activist” courts) the Perhaps the greatest pleasure is and worldliness which over and over starting point of an appellant’s again demonstrates that he is not only submission to the Court of Appeal. the quality of the writing on top of everything he is saying but is There are a number of aspects to the also not afraid to say it. Smith and book which have been updated to take This is not simply a book to be left Hogan, for all its academic and into account the way we now source to students. Reading it, I quickly saw it professional usefulness, is a book one materials. The chapter on forgery can as an obvious and essential complement is happy to sit and read. For example, almost entirely be found on the website. to Archbold. The book is divided in “In 1991 in R, the House of Lords So can the bibliography. There are two, between general principles and decided that there was no rule that a online updates which are free every particular crimes, which means that husband cannot be guilty of rape of his year; there were 100 pages’ worth last nearly half of it is spent discussing the wife, and that the words ‘unlawful’ in year. When one considers the fact that substance of what constitutes criminal sub-paragraph 1 of the 1976 Act was the 13th edition itself takes account of law before one gets to the specific ‘surplusage’. It is arguable that this 200 fresh appellate decisions, four offences. By then one has a full decision flouted the will of Parliament substantial Acts of Parliament and five understanding of what constitutes an but the result was highly desirable”. Law Commission Reports, the offence, who qualifies as an offender And in another area of law, in the advantages of Master Ormerod doing and the relevant mental states. The text trilogy of cases Morris, Gomez and the updating work for you becomes is divided up by numbering and by Hinks, “the House has adopted an obvious. There is a companion Cases subtitles, which makes it easy to follow. interpretation of appropriation at odds and Material book which will be Perhaps the greatest pleasure is the with that intended and with very published in an updated edition in 2013.

50 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 B OOK R EVIEW A Symbol of the Evils of Apartheid

Review by Master Adrian Whitfield

n 1962 the African National Astonishingly, the original Congress (ANC), committed to the indictment was not served on the Iadvancement of civil rights in Rivonia defendants or their lawyers South Africa by non-violent means, had until after the case had been called on. been in existence for fifty years. But It was quashed, but the defendants despite international condemnation the were immediately rearrested. The fresh apparatus of apartheid remained intact. indictment contained four counts Understandably, some ANC activists alleging violation of, and conspiracy to came to believe that non-violent protest violate, the Sabotage Act: violation of was not working and that a degree of the Suppression of Communism Act, violence had become inevitable. They and the receiving of money to commit therefore founded Umkhonto we Sizwe those offences. The voluminous Saving Nelson Mandela: The Rivonia Trial (The Spear of the Nation), generally particulars alleged one hundred and and the Fate of South Africa is available known as MK. Its initial policy was to ninety-three acts of sabotage. from Oxford University Press for £16.99 limit violence to sabotage, as opposed Professor Broun’s measured account or by eBook for £16.31 to acts of guerrilla warfare directed at of the trial makes very clear the human life. dilemmas and decisions facing the Three themes dominate this gripping In July 1963, however, the security gifted defence team. The seized book. First, there is analysis of the services achieved a considerable material and the defendants’ hugely difficult and skilfully executed success. By then Nelson Mandela had instructions indicated that conviction decisions of the defence team. Second, already been arrested. MK members was inevitable in most cases. So the Professor Broun explores why life were using Liliesleaf farm in Rivonia, main aim was to present a fair picture sentences were passed as opposed to then a rural suburb of Johannesburg, as of the calibre and intentions of the the death penalty. Was it the a sanctuary. A special branch raid there defendants, and the moral justification effectiveness of the advocacy? Did the led to further arrests and the seizure of of their conduct, in order to save them judge want to avoid making martyrs of a large amount of writings and from the gallows. It was strategically the defendants? Did their character and equipment consistent at least with important to show that while MK idealism influence him? Mandela sabotage if not terrorism, and engaged in sabotage it had not at that expressed the view that the judge did suggestive of illegal communist time adopted a policy of guerrilla not sentence him to death “because I sympathies. warfare, that MK was separate from the dared him to do it”. Third, he considers Earlier, a notable prosecution had ANC, and that both were separate from the political effect of the trial. The state failed. In 1956 one hundred and fifty- the Communist Party. saw the result as a vindication of its six people of all races, including Tactically, the plan included a system. Indeed, the International Nelson Mandela, had been accused of statement from the dock by Nelson Commission of Jurists did not criticise high treason. The “Treason Trial” had Mandela concluding with the famous the trial process; rather, it criticised the dragged on until 1961 and resulted in passage: law under which the prosecution took discontinuance against or the acquittal I have fought against white place. But the consequence of the trial of all defendants. In 1962, however, domination, and I have fought against was, for a time, to drive the black the Sabotage Act was passed. This had black domination. I have cherished the opposition deep underground. a number of advantages for the ideal of a democratic and free society Yet in Professor Broun’s words prosecution. Trial could be by single in which all persons live together in “something happened in the course of judge alone; there was no preliminary harmony and with equal opportunities. the trial…that saved the lives of hearing, and the burden rested on a It is an ideal which I hope to live for Mandela and his co-defendants and, defendant to prove that the commission and achieve. But if needs be, it is an ultimately, the very soul of their of an act “objectively regarded” was ideal for which I am prepared to die. country”. He continues: “this book is not done for anti-government purposes. In the event all defendants who were an attempt to uncover what that Conviction carried a minimum sentence convicted received life sentences, with something was." Readers who open it of five years and a maximum penalty of no distinction made for their relative to explore the answer to that question death. guilt. will find it hard to put down.

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 51 B OOK R EVIEW The Serpent’s Head: Revenge eBook review by Master Philip Bartle

aster Julian Malins has had a had sex with Harriet felt good about mansion near Woodstock used for “rest dazzling career as a themselves and were grateful”. Her and recreation and for the suborning Msuccessful commercial son, Jonathan, is Suying’s tutorial and blackmailing of British politicians barrister, an agony uncle and a coun- partner. He is called a geek and “lived and business leaders”. The original cillor in the City of London. However, in number theory”. We are told: “They intention to burn down the building is I suspect that few people know that he were young. They were happy. They changed when it is found that many has written a very good novel. had five days to live”. leading politicians are at the mansion at The Serpent’s Head: Revenge is the an orgy. Instead, the politicians are first volume in a remarkable fast- exposed by an article in the Oxford moving political thriller. In E. M. “It is hard to believe that a Mail after a tip-off to the editor. Forster’s lectures on fiction, Aspects of QC would have so much Harriet is assisted by her lover, Colonel Gregory de Salis, a former the Novel, he wrote; “Every action or knowledge of the real world” word in a plot ought to count; it ought army officer who has worked for the to be economical; and spare; even when Sultan of Brunei. Many years before complicated it ought to be organic and With many others, and after the events in the book, his wife had free from dead matter”. A perfect spending their first night together, been killed on an Air India flight as a description of the plot of this book. Suying and Jonathan are killed when a result of a Sikh terrorist bomb and his Lui Peng and Harriet Mayhew are bomb destroys the Gherkin. “Their last revenge is to kill all those involved in very successful. Lui Peng is Head of thoughts were not of terror but of planting the bomb. the Chinese Secret Service. His sadness at their loss of each other and In China, a plan is hatched by a daughter, Suying, is a mathematical of their future”. Winston, the son of character called the Brain (“one of the genius. Her father wants to find a the Governor of Kaduna in Nigeria, is cleverest men in China”) who husband for her and sends her to also killed. The bomb was planted by advocates “Destroy Mecca and you will Oxford because, as “all Chinese looked Gool who works for The Companions destroy Islam as a political and military alike to Englishmen, an Englishman of the Prophet which is based in threat”. This is achieved by the would not realise that Suying was Mecca. The bulk of the novel recounts Chinese accepting the Saudi request for unattractive”. Harriet is one of how Harriet and Lui Peng plan their a neutron bomb which the Saudis want London’s richest financiers. “Men who revenge on militant Islam by striking at as a deterrent but which the Chinese Saudi Arabia: “the ultimate source of arrange to be turned against the Saudis all Islamic terrorist funds”. by hijacking it on the way to Jeddah Available as a download to a Kindle from Amazon for £2.99 or to an iPad from iTunes In England, Harriet gathers together and taking it to Mecca where it is a select group who will be paid five exploded. million Euros each on completion of The revenge plan leads to the her revenge. The plan is: first to set up collapse of the Saudi regime and of an organisation based in Malta from militant Islam everywhere. The book where Christian missionaries are to be ends when Gool returns to London sent to Saudi Arabia to expose the apparently intending to carry out his nature of the system and demand revenge on Harriet and de Salis. religious freedom; and, second, to help On Amazon, this book has had the Governor of Kaduna to send fifteen five-star reviews. One notes, “It Christian soldiers in Nigeria to attack is hard to believe that a QC would have the Islamic stronghold of Kano to so much knowledge of the real world”. prevent its expansion into the rest of I could not agree more. If you own a Nigeria. In this first book, only the Kindle or similar device, you should second of these is carried out – by download this immediately. If you killing the Governor after he has visited don’t own such a device, I suggest his mistress at a brothel. strongly that you should buy one so that The English revenge is also you can enjoy this exciting, intricately achieved by raiding a Saudi-owned plotted and thrilling book.

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The Inn warmly welcomes the following members of staff who have started their career with the Middle Temple this year.

Tony Beaumont Lisa O’Daly Electrician, Estates Human Resources Manager Joined 7 July 2012 Joined 5 March 2012

Lorraine Butler Siobhan Prendergast Sales & Marketing Manager Conservator, Archive Joined 16 July 2012 Joined 4 August 2012

Tony Hainsby Mick Taylor Night Security Plumber, Estates Joined 16 December 2011 Joined 4 January 2012

Glen Newman Sally Yorke Finance & HR Assistant Treasury Assistant Joined 23 July 2012 Joined 12 March 2012

Not shown above are Luiz Alonzo, Plumber (joined 30 January 2012) and Mark Taylor, IT Manager (joined 5 September 2012).

The Inn is grateful to the following members of staff for their long and valued service, and wishes them happy, healthy futures.

Ray Brooks John Smith Senior Plumber, Estates Plumber, Estates Retired after 16 years, 7 months Retired after 9 years

Derek Walker John Ireland Maintenance & Engineering Coordinator Painter, Estates Retired after 12 years 3 months Retired after 35 years, 9 months

Terry Parratt Siobhan Woodgate Library Assistant/Security Conservator, Archive Retired after 18 years 9 months Resigned after 6 years, 8 months

The Inn also thanks the following staff, who have left in the last year, for their contributions during their service of less than five years: Maya Forrester, Human Resources Officer; Chris Suckling, Deputy Under Treasurer; Maria Aristidou, Alumni Officer; Steven Horton, Electrician; Linda Stewart-Birch, Human Resources Officer; Fergal Altman, Librarian; Ricardo Esposito, Plumber; John Kirby, Interim IT Manager.

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17TH MAY 2012 The 350th Anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer by The Master of The Temple

The house of prayer, so the Fathers teach, is a Court beautified with the presence of celestial powers; there we stand, we pray, we sound forth hymns unto God, having his Angels intermingled as our associates. – Richard Hooker, former Master of the Temple, Ecclesiastical Polity, V.25.2 (1597)

e have good reason at the Temple Church to value and Wto use the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Richard Hooker, founding-father of Anglican theology and Master of the Temple 1585-91, wrote movingly of the power of common prayer. John Gauden, Preacher here in 1660, would be one of the Bishops at the Savoy Conference in 1661 that settled the Book’s final form. In the 1680s Christopher Wren, nephew of Bishop Matthew Wren and heir to his uncle’s ideals of church order and worship, reorganised the Temple Church to be a fitting home to the Book’s theology. Christopher Wren’s first marriage was celebrated here. By 1538-9 Thomas Cranmer was already planning a book of daily offices that would be in English and for the use of lay-people. In his second Prayer Book, of 1552, he realised this hope. An instruction on the offices is added to the book’s Preface: “And the Curate that ministreth in every Parish Church or Chapel … shall say the same in the Parish Church or Chapel where he ministreth, and shall toll a bell thereto, a convenient time before he begin, that such as be disposed may come to hear God’s word, and to pray with him.”

The Book of Common Prayer, 1662, title page. Reproduced with kind permission of The Trustees of Lambeth Palace Library

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The Prayer Book and Bible became delectation with which, at every one of Not quite. The Old Testament describes in consequence the foundational texts in our choral services, we raise up our the Holy of Holies in the Temple of the evolution of the English language; spirits to angelical exaltations. Jerusalem: the Ark contained the Cranmer’s prose still attracts and uplifts The revisions of 1662 are not, to our Tablets of the Law; the Ark’s lid formed us by its own beauty. And I still expect, eyes, substantial. The language of both the mercy-seat flanked by cherubim on most weekdays in term, to be in the the Prayer Book and of the Bible was with outstretched arms; the whole space Church at 9.00 am to say Morning already solemnly archaic: God is was decorated with the trees and Prayer with those who are disposed to consistently addressed as “thou” and flowers of paradise. And outside its hear God’s word and to pray with me. I “thee”; and the Old English endings veil and down a flight of steps was the am embarrassed to admit that I do not “-eth”, “-est” are retained. Both Bible courtyard of the priests, where sacrifice sound our one, cheerless bell! and Prayer Book looked archaic: they was offered. The Prayer Book’s use was were generally printed, throughout the In the sanctuary of the Temple forbidden in the Interregnum. In 1660 seventeenth century, in the antiquated Church stands the altar or mercy-seat; the newly returned King promised a form of black letter gothic. behind it on the reredos are the Tablets conference on the forms of prayer that The Prayer Book of 1552 had been of the Ten Commandments, two he would authorise; and on 15 April deeply Protestant. And so in most ways charmingly diminutive cherubim above 1661 the Savoy Conference met. it remained in 1662. But it had become them, and on each side a swag of Twelve Bishops were on one side, John by then a vehicle of a grander worship. flowers and fruits. Wren has recreated Gauden among them; twelve The revisions of 1662 were shaped by here the Holy of Holies. And the Presbyterians on the other. Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely. Wren’s congregations gathers outside it, beyond John Gauden had temporised through nephew Christopher would, over the the altar rail and down the step, in the the crises of the 1640s and 50s. He next thirty years, transform the courtyard of the priests; for the sided with the parliamentary opposition architecture of the English church. congregation is a royal priesthood in to Charles I, abandoned the Book of Christopher Wren, for all his sense of Christ (1 Peter 2.9, from Exodus 19.6), Common Prayer and conformed to the beauty and dignity, may well seem called to offer a “living sacrifice” of new regime. He nonetheless protested loyal to the protestantism of the old life, thanks and praise. in print against the trial and execution Prayer Book. Evidence surely stands The uncle’s prayer book, in the of the King; and at the prospect of the before us in Wren’s altarpiece the nephew’s church. The two of them Restoration he sought to mediate again, Temple Church itself: it must be an together created a style, a tone for as he had in the 1640s, between aniconic version of an Italian worship that are as lovely and as episcopalians and Presbyterians. renaissance altarpiece; the Word of God numinous and as fitting now as they Gauden claimed that he, by himself, has replaced the images made by man. were three hundred and fifty years ago. had written Eikon Basilike, 1649, the great work of Royalist piety in honour Christopher Wren’s alterpiece in the Temple Church of Charles I. In 1660 Gauden was Preacher to the Inner and Middle Temple; he edited the works of his great predecessor Richard Hooker. He was soon rewarded by the King for his moderation and support with the bishopric of Exeter and then of Worcester. Gauden, in Hieraspistes, praised the use of music in Church, “in that audible singing, and melodious delectation, which is sensible in good music, and which hath a secret, sweet, and heavenly virtue to allay the passions of the soul and to raise up our spirits to angelical exaltations by which we may glorify and praise God, which is a part of our worship of Him.” Gauden is an ambivalent figure; we hope, even so, that he would have valued the Photograph Christopher Christodoulou

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 55 O RGAN F UND A PPEAL Only a Few More Stops to Go

by Master Penny Jonas

nder the highly effective affection, are following this inspiring the departure of the Belgian Olympic partnership of the joint example. It is a matter of great sadness Committee, resident in the Temple for UChairmen, Master Michael that the late Master Toulmin, having the London 2012 Games. Once again Blair and Sir Anthony May, together played such an important part in the life the Church will be filled, until Advent with Master Andrew Spink and Guy of the Temple Church and its music Sunday, with intricate and extensive Beringer QC, the Organ Appeal is into over so many years, did not live to see scaffolding for the enormous task of its final surge to complete the full and hear the organ returned in its reassembling the organ. Then will funding required for the refurbishment restored splendor. He offered great follow some months of thorough of the Temple Church Organ. The encouragement and was very generous sounding and tuning through the end of Cross-Temple working group is to the Appeal. the year until Eastertide. conscientiously supported by Middle All further help will be greatly Please mark your diaries with other Temple’s Under Treasurer and the Sub- valued and appreciated. Contributions stepping stones to the finale of the Treasurer of Inner Temple. The may be sent with the trifold leaflet Appeal. On Sunday, 4 November a expertise of James Vivian, Director of attached. As you will see, donations special Mattins will be held in Temple Music, together with advice and input may still be spread over a period of one Church followed by an open day for from Master Robin Griffith-Jones, has to two years, making a significant congregational families, past choristers also contributed valuably to the success donation manageable. The Treasurers and all-comers. It will include a of the Appeal. of both Middle Temple and Inner WOOFYT – Wooden One-octave Organ The total amount raised and pledged Temple, together with Master Blair and For Young Technologists – which will (at 1 August) stands at just over Sir Anthony May, would be delighted be introduced by animateur, Jeremy £668,000 towards the £750,000 target. and gratified if the target figure of Sampson, its creator. It is a project for The Benchers of Middle Temple and £750,000, with your support, is primary school aged children, watched Inner Temple have supported the achieved. by their friends and families, to build a Appeal with immense generosity, and In August the work on the organ was pipe organ of one octave, the building the members of both Inns, together with completed in the workshops of Harrison and playing, calling for real team-work those for whom the Temple Church and & Harrison in Durham and its return as well as entertainment and fun. Pic- its music has a particular respect and journey to the Temple Church followed nics and Eve of Bonfire Night sparklers will light up the end of the day. The third and increasingly popular Christmas Fair will be held this year on Thursday, 29 November in Inner Temple Hall and will once again be in support of the Organ Appeal. In 2013, we will all look forward to the achievement of the last five years, when the first plan for the required work and the estimate of the cost was first identified. The Appeal was launched in November 2009 with the outstanding recital by Master Gillian Weir. In May 2013, there will be a service of thanksgiving, followed by a reception to which all those who have Four Temple Church chorister fathers, Benedict Zucchi (Luca), Adrian Buchanan donated to the Appeal will be invited. (Patrick), Roddy Langmuir (Rory), Ben Simms (Oscar), and Mike and Liz Clarke cycled All interest, questions and further 120 miles overnight from London Fields, East London to Dunwich, Suffolk in support generosity will be most warmly of the Organ Fund Appeal. As of 1 August £7,330.63 has been raised from the ride. welcomed. Contact Penny Jonas by It is hoped to top this up to the target total of £10,000 for a Dunwich Dynamo Stop. phone on 07778 799842 or email If you would like to donate, visit http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/templenights. [email protected].

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6TH DECEMBER 2011 Church Christmas Fair Photographs MPP Image Creation

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 57 R ICHARD B ERE Richard Bere Martyr and Middle Templar

by Master John Mitchell

n the 4th of May each year a monastery in England. In 1539, it was Having heard evidence from a service is held in the former described by the King’s Commissioners number of witnesses, all of whom were OChapterhouse of the London as “the goodliest house of that sort that over the age of sixty and claiming to Charterhouse in Smithfield to we have ever seen . . . a house meet for remember events some forty-six years commemorate eighteen Carthusian the King’s Majesty and for no man earlier, the jury concluded that no monks and two other priests who were else”. The number and antiquity of the marriage between Jane Samuel and executed or who died in Newgate books in its library were “scarcely Bere had taken place. The witnesses between 1535 and 1540. During the equalled by any other library in all recalled that Richard, “a good, big service the congregation processes to Britain”. Some forty-four years after stripling and a well-grown young man”, the site of the High Altar of the his death, Abbot Richard was spent his childhood in the charge of his monastic church and, as the name of remembered by a witness as “a grave, uncle, being educated at the Abbey each martyr is read out, a red rose is wise and discrete man, upright in all school. He later went to study in placed on a model of the Tyburn his ways and for so accounted of Oxford, before being recalled by Abbot gallows. The twelfth name is that of amongst all sorts of people”. He was Richard in order to marry his young Dom Richard Bere. It has recently also a shrewd and powerful man of ward, Jane Samuel. According to one been discovered that he, as well as his affairs who entertained Henry VII when witness, Richard’s response was that he uncle, Abbot Richard Bere, was a he visited Glastonbury in 1497 was going to London to the Inns of member of the Middle Temple. following the West Country campaign Court and would not marry Jane. In Abbot Richard Bere was born in against Perkin Warbeck and was part of return for a “gift” of £40, Abbot about 1455. He became a Benedictine the diplomatic mission sent by Henry Richard then agreed to Jane being monk in 1478 and, at the age of about to Rome in 1503 to obtain the papal betrothed to his niece’s son, Richard thirty-nine, was elected Abbot of permission for Prince Henry to marry Pyke. The niece later tried to recover Glastonbury, the greatest and, second Catherine of Aragon, his brother’s some of the money on the grounds that only to Westminster, wealthiest widow. During his time as abbot he Jane was too young to marry but Abbot erected a number of buildings, greatly Richard would have none of it: the Martyr Memorial at the enhanced the Abbey church and its money belonged to the Abbey and not Chapter House of London Charterhouse surrounding buildings, built the Edgar to him. and the Loretto Chapels and installed a So it was that Abbot Richard and his silver and gilt altar in front of the High nephew travelled to London where, at a Altar. He rebuilt the Tribunal (the Parliament held on the Feast of Souls Abbot’s Court House) and his coat of 1520, they were both admitted to the arms can still be seen on a nearby barn. Middle Temple. Abbot Richard, The date of birth of Richard Bere, admitted as a member, in return for five the younger, is uncertain but the best marks was excused keeping vacations guess is that it was no later than 1506 and holding any offices. Young and probably around 1504. What little Richard entered to the Clerks’ is known about his early life comes Commons as a student. There is no from the records of a court case in mystery as to why Abbot Richard, then 1568 in which a land dispute between aged about sixty-five, joined the Inn. John Bartlett, a weaver, and one In this period it was not uncommon for William Pyke turned on whether or not dignitaries – whether courtiers, peers or Pyke’s grandmother, Jane Samuel, had clergy – to be admitted. Nor is it lawfully been married to his surprising that the Middle Temple was grandfather, Richard Pyke, or if the chosen, it being, in the words of marriage was a nullity because at the Professor Sir John Baker QC, in part “a time of the wedding in 1522-3 she was club for the landed families of already married to Richard Bere. Somerset”.

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Extract from Middle Temple’s Parliament on 2 November 1520: Ricardus Bear admissus est ad communes Clericorum Et perdonatur de officio Pincerne Et concessumest ei quod si perdat aliquam vacationem custodiat aliam de eadem natura immediate.

Translated from the Latin it reads: Richard Bear was admitted to Clerks' commons And is pardoned the office of Butler And it was granted to him that if he lose any vacation he shall immediately keep another of the same nature.

Richard Bere took chambers in the both of its daily life and its troubles. to listen to sermons at St Paul’s, their Inn but on 20 February 1523 he entered The troubles came in March 1534 books were confiscated, and their the House of the Salutation of the when the Carthusians, like everyone rations reduced. Some monks were Mother of God – the London else, were required to swear to the first removed to other Houses where some, Charterhouse. Two years later on 10 Act of Succession confirming the including Chauncy, took the Oath. January 1525 Abbot Richard died and validity of Henry’s marriage to Ann Henry grew more impatient. Uprisings was buried under a marble slab in the Boleyn. After some hesitation and in Lincolnshire and the Pilgrimage of south aisle of the Abbey Church at delay – and, for Houghton, an interview Grace in the North, although Glastonbury. with the Archbishop of York in the suppressed, had sounded a warning, The London Charterhouse was less Tower – the monks were persuaded to and a show of defiance in the heart of wealthy and extensive than take the Oath. Worse followed: on 1 London was more than inconvenient. Glastonbury. Belonging to an eremitic February 1535 the Treason Act came order, the monks slept, not in a into force, which meant that to not Richard Bere and the other communal dorter but in individual cells, acknowledge the King as Supreme each with its own small garden and Head of the Church of England was an martyrs were beatified by oratory, arranged around the Great act of high treason. This time, after Pope Leo XIII in 1896 Cloister. The Prior’s cell was larger prayerful deliberation, the community than those of the other monks but, refused to take the Oath. Houghton and unlike Abbot Richard, his household two Priors from sister houses were Finally, on 18 May 1537 the Oath did not include a French poet, a harper arrested and taken to the Tower before was taken by twenty members of the and a tapestry maker. The monks ate being convicted in Westminster Hall. community. Ten others, including fish rather than meat and according to On 4 May, Thomas More who was also Richard Bere, refused and were taken Erasmus smelled like otters. But a prisoner at the Tower, saw them as to Newgate where they were visited Charterhouse overcame what it lacked they were being removed to Tyburn and fed by Margaret Clements, More’s in physical comfort by a reputation for where they were hanged and, while still adopted daughter. Their stay was short. high minded piety. It attracted the laity alive, disembowelled and their hearts On 14 June it was reported to (Thomas More had been a frequent cut out. Part of Houghton’s corpse was Cromwell that five had died, two were visitor for three years after he became suspended from the gatehouse of on the point of death, two were sick an utter-barrister at Lincoln’s Inn) and Charterhouse before being recovered by and “One is whole: Dom Beer”. By 20 recruited educated men of gentle birth. members of the community and secretly September, all but one, were dead; Bere Bere’s contemporaries included John buried within its precincts. On 19 June having died on 9 August. Although it Houghton who became Prior in 1531 Newdigate, Exmew and another monk has been suggested that they were and possessed decrees from Cambridge, were also executed. Seventeen days starved to death, it seems more likely William Exmew whose father was Lord later, so, too, was Thomas More. that they died of gaol fever (typhus), Mayor of London, and Sebastian Throughout the next two years having been weakened by short rations Newdigate who had been a member of Thomas Cromwell, Henry’s Vice- at Charterhouse. The monks’ steadfast Henry VIII’s privy chamber. Another Regent (and a member of Gray’s Inn) bravery cannot be doubted. Others, was Maurice Chauncy of Gray’s Inn sought to persuade the remainder of the too, were executed including Richard who, after Charterhouse was community to comply. When argument Whiting, Abbot Bere’s successor. suppressed, wrote a detailed account and discussion failed, they were forced Among many who took the Oath were

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Scenes of the persecution of the Carthusian order, including members of Charterhouse priory, in 1535. Top right shows the hanging and disembowling of three priors at Tyburn, including John Houghton, prior of Charterhouse. The engraving (1555) is based on drawings by Michaelangelo. ©City of London monks at Hinton Charterhouse in having made the Smithfield site I am grateful to Lesley Whitelaw, Somerset whose reluctant Prior was unsuitable for a religious order. In Archivist at Middle Temple, and HHJ persuaded to do so by his brother, Alan 1555 Charterhouse was granted to Lord Donald Cryan, Deputy Master of the Horde, a Middle Templar and Bencher. North whose eldest son had married a Archive, and Celia Pilkington, In 1553, a few months after Mary daughter of Richard Rich, Henry’s Archivist, at Inner Temple, who first succeeded to the throne, Master Horde Solicitor-General (a Middle Temple identified Richard Bere the Younger as bequeathed “a little chalice of silver member and Autumn Reader, 1528). a Middle Templar and, in amity, passed and gilt…a little coffer with relics and a Their direct descendent, Roger North, the information to me. vestment with an alb” to any English became Treasurer of the Inn in 1683. A Middle Temple Historical Society Charterhouse “should one shortly be set Richard Bere and the other martyrs (MTHS) Talk on Richard Bere will up”. The bequests may have passed to were beatified by Pope Leo XIII in take place on Wednesday, 10 April a short-lived community at Sheen 1896. John Houghton was canonised 2013. All members and their guests are headed by Chauncy, redevelopment in 1970. welcome to attend.

2012-2013 MT Historical Society Supper Talks

MTHS talks are preceded by drinks and buffet supper (£25 pp, £15 for students). Members of the Inn and their friends are warmly welcome and are invited to join the Society for a £5 annual subscription. Cheques should be sent to Paola Kovacz c/o the Treasury Office at least seven days before the meeting. For further information, contact Paola Kovacz at [email protected].

Friday, 26 October 2012 Professor Tim Hitchcock, The Old Bailey Project Online Professor of 18th Century History at Hertfordshire University, Professor Hitchcock is also the Co-Director of a number of online projects which include Old Bailey Online, a searchable edition of the Old Bailey Sessions and Proceedings, 1674 to 1913, the largest body of published material detailing the lives of non-elite people ever produced.

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 Sir Stephen Sedley, The Lions Under the Throne: The Judges and the Royal Prerogative A Bencher of Inner Temple and former Lord Justice of Appeal, Sir Stephen is currently a Visiting Professor at Oxford University, and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University (1993-) and Warwick University (1994- ). He is the author of several publications including, Ashes and Sparks: Essays on Law and Justice (2011).

Tuesday, 22 January 2013 Professor Lisa Jardine CBE, Never Trust a Pirate: Robert Hooke, Christian Huygens and the Sea-going Pendulum Clock Professor of Renaissance History at Queen Mary, University of London, Master Jardine is the author of The Curious Life of Robert Hooke; Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution. She will talk about this aspect of her research which she wrote especially for the Harrison Lecture for the Antiquarian Horologists last year.

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summer display of Cosmos, Verbena process, and this year two old and Beds rigida and Ricinus. All the other bulbs oversized shrubs have been replaced – narcissus, crocuses, snowdrops and with an evergreen Arbutus uedo and a Chinodoxa, Erythronium – are left in Catalpa, which will mature over the and the ground. The Lilium martagon years. bulbs have appeared above ground and The coolish spring prolonged the flowered early July in the pink rose bed tulip display and weeks of rain have near the magnolia. After three years of been the perfect tonic for the roses. Bulbs intensive bulb planting sessions, the The onset of the hosepipe ban had its spring display in the garden is starting own impact. The fountain in Elm Court by Kate Jenrick to make an impact. could not be filled, so I converted it The northwest corner bed of into a temporary flowerbed and, whilst Fountain Court is completely renewed I was able to take comfort from ast September marked the start with a mixed shrub and herbaceous knowing that our underground of my gardening year. Over the area planting. An eye-catching green rainwater tank was full and ready to Lsummer I had formulated the and gold variegated shrub (Coprosma), keep the lawn and terrace irrigated, I next ideas and improvements, pored a transplanted Viburnum from the did spend one week immediately prior over the bulb catalogues and placed terrace, Azalea luteum, Hellebores, to the ban with hoses operating orders. When 15,000 bulbs arrived, wallflowers and Muscari will provide overtime to ensure that all trees and having overcome the problem of winter and spring interest, followed by shrubs had a natural reservoir of water storing them I realised the number of Digitalis and hollyhocks, then at their disposal; as they then enjoyed hours’ work ahead. I did wonder if I Hydrangeas and Ceratostigma for the more than two and a half times the had been a little over ambitious. So, late summer display. average rainfall in April, steady autumn activities of bulb planting, Another new area to have been showers in May and monsoon routine mulching, intensive lawn overhauled is the Rose Garden, conditions in June they have never maintenance and renovation, and new formerly known as the Benchers’ known it so good. planting schemes – in addition to the Garden. Over time I realised that this obligatory rose-pruning – set a busy area was significantly under-used as a schedule for the run up to Christmas. garden space and was essentially the Fortunately, on hand was a team of thoroughfare for catering staff working 11 volunteers from various Chambers, garden parties and that, as a members and Benchers of the Inn and consequence, the grass struggled. the Joint Masters of the Garden who, There is now a patio area to reduce on a sunny Sunday morning in footfall on the grass with a seating November 2011, planted nearly 5,000 area. The changes made way for the bulbs including the tulip showpiece on creation of a new flower bed under the the terrace. I have to confess to be magnolia. This spring various being slightly nervous about what it Dryopteris ferns, hostas, Dicentra would all look like, having had such a Langtrees Aquilegia Clematine White, big team working on the one area. My Astrantia Claret, Hemerocallis fears were quite unfounded, as the Pandora’s Box and Geum Bell Bank tulips looked wonderful and drew many were planted in the new bed. flattering comments. As tulips are not On the main terrace, renewal and good at naturalising, the terrace bulbs renovation of some of the old shrubs were lifted to make way for the has been undertaken in a staged

M ICHAELMAS 2012 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR 61 J OHN G RAY Shades of Gray

by Master Michael Ashe, Master of the Archive

n The Picture of Dorian Gray the Temple, John Gray wrote While living at 3 Plowden Buildings, Oscar Wilde wrote of a “young man “decadent” verses which were Gray collaborated with the Dutch Iof extraordinary personal beauty. . . published in 1893 in a volume entitled translator Alexander Teixeira de Mattos who looks as if he was made out of Silverpoints. (who was later to marry Wilde’s ivory and rose leaves.” In 1892 it was John Gray was a dandy and very widowed sister-in-law and to translate widely believed, probably mistakenly, handsome, somewhat dissolute and the Phantom of the Opera by Leroux). that the “model” for Dorian was John even used the name “Dorian”! Wilde Gray’s own particular interests as a Gray, a Middle Temple student and would have described this as “life translator were the French Symbolist decadent poet, who was, by many, imitating art”. His contemporary, the poets and French plays. This he regarded as the most beautiful man in poet Ernest Dowson described Gray, at combined with his poetry, civil service London. this time, as being “incurably given job, playing the dandy, pursuing In the novel, the wealthy Dorian over to social things”. He was said by hedonism and being constantly in debt. utters the mad wish that he might George Bernard Shaw to be one of the remain young and his portrait grow old. most abject of Wilde’s disciples. In Thereafter, he entered He leads, secretly, a debauched life and 1891 Gray was constantly seen in the his wish comes true. After each sin the company of Wilde and was assumed by immediately on a course of sin portrait becomes increasingly some to be his lover. He then appears compared with which his disfigured as it bears the burden of his to have been dropped for Bosie, Lord shame. At the end a repentant Gray Alfred Douglas, who was in 1894, to previous life was innocence stabs the now grotesque image which write of “the love that dare not speak regains its beauty, while he dies its name”. In his passionate letter to He was passionate about the theatre “withered, wrinkled and loathsome of Bosie, written in his cell at Reading and in 1892 gave a paper entitled “The visage.” Gaol, Wilde later expressed regret at Modern Actor” which Wilde described John Gray was born in 1866 in his abandonment of Gray’s friendship. as a “brilliant fantastic lecture”. This Bethnal Green, East London into a Was it, I wonder, Wilde of whom appreciation was not shared by the working class Methodist family. He Gray was thinking when he penned Daily Telegraph whose critic left school in 1879 and went to work at these words? commented, “His view is that of an the Woolwich Arsenal. At the age of artistic pagan and is vaporously sixteen he passed the civil service Did we not Darling, you and I, expressed.” John Gray appears to have exams and joined the Post Office Walk on the earth like other men? been a particular devotee of the famous Savings Bank as a clerk, moving to the Did we not walk and wonder why actress Ellen Terry, to whom he Foreign Office six years later. They spat upon us so. And then dedicated his poem “A Halting Sonnet” In 1887, John matriculated at the We lay us down among fresh earth, which begins: University of London and was admitted Sweet flowers breaking overhead, It is not meet for one like me to as a student of Middle Temple on 21 Sore needed rest for our frail girth, praise November 1888, although he did not For our frail hearts; a well sought A lady, princess, goddess, artist commence formal studies and did not bed. such; pursue the law. In March 1889 he took For great ones crane their a tenancy of a three-room flat on the In a different mode Gray writes about a foreheads to her touch, second floor of 1 Cloisters overlooking gull: To change their splendours Pump Court and on 27 January 1891 into crowns of bays. took the tenancy of rooms on the third Full-winged and steady like a bird of floor of 3 Plowden Buildings prey, The verses published in Silverpoints overlooking Middle Temple Lane, All tense the muscles of here seemly did not meet with critical acclaim. To where he remained until Lady Day flanks; the poet Theodore Wratislaw they 1893. (This part of Plowden Buildings She, the coy creature that the idle showed that Gray was “ . . . a young suffered severe bomb damage in World day man with a promising career behind War II and the site is now occupied by Sees idly riding in the idle ranks. him.” One enthusiast, however, was the Ashley Building.) While living in Olive Custance, a young and beautiful

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poetess, who, when aged sixteen in 1895 John Gray had instructed counsel 1890, had met John Gray at a party. with a watching brief. His name, She had fallen in love with him however, never came up. immediately and referred to him as her In 1898 Gray resigned from the “Prince of Poets”. Her love was Foreign Office and entered the Scots unrequited and in a poem, College in Rome to train for the “Reminiscences” written for him later Catholic priesthood. He attended she concludes: lectures in philosophy and theology at the Gregorian University. Some I clasped your hand commented that this Dandy was And looked into your eyes. attracted to the Scots College by its My spirit spanned – Your spirit’s dress of violet cassock, purple cincture mysteries, and black soprano. (A less dramatic But feared to call you friend. explanation is that he was of Scottish In 1902 Olive eloped with Bosie and descent.) became Lady Alfred Douglas. The He died in 1934 as Canon Gray, marriage was not particularly happy. well-respected as Parish Priest of St In the 1890s a number of literary Peter’s Morningside where he had built persons lived in the Temple, one of a very fine church. The architect was whom was Arthur Symons in Fountain the Arts and Crafts Scottish architect, Court. Symons was friendly with Gray Sir Robert Lorimer; however, the and in November 1892 introduced him influence of Gray on this building, set to André Raffalovich, a wealthy French in a smart Edinburgh suburb, is clear: writer who had been critical of John the brick work, the early Roman Gray’s work. Wilde had said of Christian basilica style, complete with Raffalovich that he had come from campanile and piazza almost lyrically Paris to found a salon and had merely recall his days in the Eternal City. opened a saloon. Raffalovich had John Gray continued to write and known Wilde for a long time and like shortly before his death published a many in literary circles had by 1892 novel called Park. Silverpoints had become wary of his indiscreet been published in a limited edition in behaviour. He and John Gray were to 1893 in a very fine binding by Allen become life-long friends and Lane at the Bodley Head but later the collaborated on a number of literary Canon endeavoured to purchase all ventures. copies, possibly embarrassed by the What was the fate of the man, decadent poetry of his youth. He did thought to be Dorian? In 1890 John not succeed but very few copies of the Gray had converted to Catholicism at original survive. the Church at St Anselm and St Cecilia Gray was a remarkably gifted man in Kingsway and quickly lapsed from who between attending elementary that Faith. Thereafter, as he said, he school, which he left at thirteen, and entered immediately on a course of sin university in Rome in his early thirties, compared with which his previous life educated himself in the arts and was innocence. languages. As a priest his first After the publication of Silverpoints, appointment was as a curate at St and possibly shocked by Wilde’s Patrick’s Cowgate, a very poor parish in conviction for acts of gross indecency, the centre of Edinburgh where his life John began to write spiritual poems. At was lived in stark contrast to that of a the second of the three Wilde trials in dandy and member of Middle Temple.

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Middle Temple Northern Dinner, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester Saturday, 20 October 2012

All members of the Inn, but particularly those members of the Northern & North Eastern Circuits, are encouraged to attend and to bring guests. Timings are 7.00 for 7.30 pm and dress is Black Tie. The cost is £55 pp to include a drinks reception hosted by the Manchester Middle Temple Society. A limited number of places are available at £20 for Middle Temple students and barristers under 3 years’ Call. To reserve a place, contact Elisabeth Cooper of St John’s Buildings Chambers, Manchester (0161 214 1500) at [email protected].

Middle Temple CPD Day Saturday, 24 November 2012

The theme of the day is “Advocacy: How the Judges See it and How to Improve It”. A strong team of civil, criminal and appellate judges will speak on preparation, presentation, examination of witnesses, persuasion, etc., addressing both oral and written advocacy. The fee will be £200 for QCs, £140 for those of 5+ years’ Call, £105 for those under 5 years’ Call, and £50 for pupils. To register, and for further information, please contact Stacey Brown at [email protected] or Nicola Duggan at [email protected], or ring on 020 7427 4800.

Temple Children’s Music Concerts Sunday, 25 November 2012 Middle Temple Hall

Sessions for 0-3 year olds will take place at 11 am and 12 noon and will be performed by Victoria, who runs Pitter Patter in and around St Albans. Sessions for 4-7 year olds will take place at 2.30 pm and 4.30 pm and will be performed by Notelets, who are a group drawn from members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Participation is the order of the day, including an opportunity to try some of the instruments. Children’s tea is available after each afternoon concert. If you have children in both age groups, you may attend both at the same charge and picnic in the lunch break. Children are free and adult tickets cost £15 each. Book with the Treasury Office on 020 7427 4800.

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Burns’ Night Saturday, 26 January 2013

Champagne Reception, four-course Dinner, and Reeling. Dining ticket prices from £85.50 per person (groups of 10) and non-dining tickets from £40.50 per person (groups of 10). Discounted prices for Middle Temple students. Reception at 7 pm, non-diners 9.30 pm, carriages 1 am. Highland Dress or Black Tie. Purchase tickets from the Treasury Office on 020 7427 4800 or [email protected].

Academics’ Dinner Monday, 4 February 2013

The Inn will be having its second Dinner for Academics, Judges and Practitioners on Monday, 4 February at 7.00 for 7.30 pm after Candlemas Evensong Service in Temple Church at 5.45 pm. Dress is Day Suit. The guest speakers will be Masters John Dyson and David Lloyd Jones. The charge for full-time academics is £45 and for others £60. Judges, barristers and academics (not only those who are Middle Temple members) are all welcome. For further information contact Kristine McGlothlin on 020 7427 4804 or email [email protected].

Music Night: Albert Ball’s Flying Aces Friday, 15 Feburary 2013

Albert Ball’s Flying Aces are named after a WWI flying ace, killed in 1917, who played violin in a squadron band aiming to relieve the terrible stress of combat. Formed in 2008 by Nicholas Ball, they perform music from the 1920s: jazz, blues, ragtime and much else. 6.45 for 7.15 pm. Day suit with gown. Tickets will be available from the Treasury Office after 7 January 2013.

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Thursday,Thursday, 11 NovemberNovember 20122012 fromfrom 6.006.00 -- 8.308.30 pmpm Ebury Galleries, John Adams Fine Art Ltd, SW1W 8UN John Adams Street,Fine Art London Ltd, Ebury Galleries, 200200 EburyEbury Street, London SW1W 8UN

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October 2012 December Thursday, 6 Private Guest Night Tuesday, 2 Scholars' Dinner Wednesday, 12 MTHS Talk by Sir Stephen Sedley Wednesday, 3 Temple Song Concert in MT Hall: Danielle de Niese and Julius Drake Thursday, 13 Revels Thursday, 4 Middle Temple Women's Forum Event Friday, 14 Revels Friday, 5 Music Night: King Masco Sunday, 16 Carol Service and Lunch in MT Hall Saturday, 6 Ordinary Dining Night Friday, 21 Hall closes after Lunch Sunday, 7 Sunday Lunch

Monday, 8 Guest Lecture: Professor Richard January 2013 McCrory, Stephen Hockman QC and Frances Patterson QC, Environmental Law Monday, 7 Hall re-opens for Lunch Thursday, 11 Call Day Saturday, 19 Cambridge University MT Society Thursday, 18 Private Guest Night/Bench Call Dinner at Clare College Saturday, 20 Middle Temple Northern Dinner Sunday, 20 Sunday Lunch Monday, 22 All Inn Dining Monday, 21 Education Day/Guest Lecture Thursday, 25 Grand Day (Black Tie with decorations) Tuesday, 22 MTHS Talk by Master Lisa Jardine Friday, 26 MTHS Talk by Professor Tim Hitchcock Thursday, 24 Private Guest Night Saturday, 27 Come and Sing with John Rutter CBE Saturday, 26 Burns' Night in MT Hall Tuesday, 30 Moot Final Tuesday, 29 All Inn Dining Wednesday, 31 TMF Concert in MT Hall: Lucy Parham and Brendan Coyle February

November Monday, 4 Academics' Dinner

Tuesday, 6 Music Night: Elias Quartet & Michael Tuesday, 12 Honorary Bench Call Collins Friday, 15 Music Night: Albert Ball’s Flying Aces Sunday, 11 Remembrance Sunday. Speaker: Field Saturday, 16 Ordinary Dining Night Marshal the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank Sunday, 17 Sunday Lunch Tuesday, 13 Reader's Feast Master Michael Crystal, International Monday, 18 Education Day/Guest Lecture Insolvency and the Common Law Wednesday, 20 Dinner for Honorary Benchers Monday, 19 Scholarship Fund Appeal Racing Night Tuesday, 26 Reader's Feast Wednesday, 21 Bench Call Thursday, 28 Middle Temple Women's Forum Event Thursday, 22 Call Day

Saturday, 24 CPD Day March Sunday, 25 Temple Children's Christmas Concerts Thursday, 7 Private Guest Night Monday, 26 Temple Song Concert in MT Hall: Miah Persson and Julius Drake Tuesday, 12 Music Night: Paul Wee Tuesday, 27 Guest Lecture: Masters Louis Susman Thursday, 14 Call Day and Nigel Sheinwald, After the U.S. Monday, 25 Bench Call Elections: What Britain and the World Can Expect Friday, 29 Good Friday Thursday, 29 Temple Church Christmas Fair in IT Halll Sunday, 31 Easter Sunday

Events in Bold are Qualifying Sessions. Events and dates may change. For the latest information, please check the Inn’s website www.middletemple.org.uk

To book, Students and Hall members contact the Treasury Office on 020 7427 4800 or email [email protected] Benchers contact Kristine McGlothlin on 020 7427 4804 or email [email protected] For TMF and Temple Song Concerts, ring 020 7427 5641 or book online at www.templemusic.org