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 Temple, London EC4Y 9BT ©2012 The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. All rights reserved. Treasury Office 020 7427 4800 The Middle Temple asserts its moral rights in the contents of this magazine. [email protected] www.middletemple.org.uk Designed by Kristine McGlothlin and Mike Pearmaine 56 6 35 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 2 THE M IDDLE T EMPLAR M ICHAELMAS 2012 T REASURER’ S F OREWORD 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.