The Middle Templar The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Issue 53 Michaelmas 2013 Middle Temple Officers 2013 Treasurer Christopher Symons QC Deputy Treasurer The Rt Hon the Lord Judge Deputy Treasurer Elect Stephen Hockman QC Lent Reader Professor Graham Zellick CBE QC Autumn Reader The Hon Mrs Justice Parker Director of Middle Temple Advocacy Derek Wood CBE QC Master of the Archive Michael Ashe QC Master of Debating David Reade QC Masters of the Garden Stephen Lloyd Esq The Hon Mrs Justice Parker Master of the House Ian Mayes QC Master of Moots Richard Wilmot-Smith QC Master of Music The Rt Hon Sir Stanley Burnton Master of Revels His Honour Peter Cowell Master of the Silver The Hon Mr Justice Ian Burnett The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Ashley Building, Middle Temple Lane Temple, London EC4Y 9BT Treasury Office 020 7427 4800 [email protected] ©2013 The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. All rights reserved. The Middle Temple asserts its moral rights in the contents of this magazine. www.middletemple.org.uk Designed by Mike Pearmaine Farewell to Catherine Quinn In November 2010 Catherine Quinn applied to join us as our Under Treasurer. In her letter of application she told us that in her previous roles she had brought about ‘dramatic service improvements’. She described her style to our head-hunters as ‘strategic, with a clear intent and transformational rather than dictatorial’. When we interviewed Catherine, all involved agreed that she was the right person for the job. We were right! She joined us in May 2011. In less than a year a draft paper on the governance of the Inn was in consultation. Within the same time frame the Temple Women’s Forum was launched, with the first formal session taking place in March 2012. Lisa O’Daly was recruited to revolutionise our HR. Mark Taylor was recruited to do the same with our IT. All staff now have clear reporting lines and proper incentive schemes. Our directors have been empowered and now talk to each other and interact with our Under Treasurer. From next year the time spent by our staff servicing committees and writing minutes will be greatly reduced so that they will be able to devote more time to carrying out their numerous other duties. As part of the governance changes there will be greater transparency and more participation in our appointments so that everyone understands the process leading to the appointment of Treasurer and to other positions within the Inn. The role of Under Treasurer has been transformed and strategy and forward looking now occupies much of the time. Catherine’s vision has brought great benefits to us all and there is now a greater recognition that we need to look to our future. It is fair to say that all who had the pleasure of working with her have been truly impressed. Although Catherine was with us for a relatively short time as is apparent she has been long on achievement. In fact she achieved an incredible amount in a very short time. She has provided great support to our Parliament and the Executive Committee, leading the way as to matters which need attention, in preparing agendas, writing papers and being there. She has then finalised the minutes and provided the action needed to put the committee’s intentions into effect. But more than that Catherine has looked after three Treasurers. I do not presume to speak for my predecessors, but working with Catherine was both a privilege and a pleasure. She is a true professional, efficient without being bossy, full of good ideas without being dictatorial (as she promised), and she managed regularly to plant ideas into my head so that I believed, at least for a moment, that they were my ideas! Happily we are now in the good hands of Guy Perricone, but during my year I have been looked after in a way which has made my task as Treasurer very straight-forward. We shall miss Catherine but our loss is the Oxford Saïd Business School’s gain. She has gone there as Assistant Dean and Chief Operating Officer and we wish her every success. Christopher Symons QC, Treasurer. The Inn’s new Under Treasurer: Guy Perricone After reading Modern Languages and Law at Cambridge, Guy trained as a solicitor with Linklaters & Paines in London and Hong Kong before moving into investment banking and joining Salomon Brothers and then S.G. Warburg. With three partners, he then established a joint-venture investment-banking boutique, MeesPierson EurAmerica, specialising in the markets of Central and Eastern Europe. After this business was acquired by ABN AMRO Bank NV, he was Global Head of Emerging Markets Corporate Finance at ABN AMRO from 1998 - 2005, based first in Prague, then in London. In 2004, Guy also assumed responsibility for managing the bank’s London-based M&A Advisory Group. In 2005, looking for a change of professional environment, Guy left investment banking to become Managing Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London where, with the Artistic Director, he worked to set the overall strategic direction of the ICA. From 2009 – 2013 he was Chief Executive of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. At the ABRSM, Guy managed a staff of 160 at the London headquarters and a further team of over 1,200 examiners, representatives and volunteers in the UK and internationally. Earlier this year, Guy was appointed Treasurer and Chairman of the Christ’s Hospital School Foundation (a voluntary role). With his mix of non-profit sector and commercial backgrounds, he will bring a wonderful range of skills and experience to Middle Temple. Guy joined the Inn on 9 September 2013. Contents 1 Farewell and Welcome to our Under Treasurers 40 A Burst of Energy: Catherine Quinn and Guy Perricone The Lord Mayor of the City of London 4 Treasurer’s Foreword 41 Lord Mayors and the Inn 6 The Royal Visit 42 Extradition: To Return or Not? Organ Rededication Service 44 Book Review 10 The Repristinated Organ Relocation: a Practical Guide 13 New Masters of the Bench 45 Academics’ Dinner 19 In Memoriam 46 Book Review Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy: 20 Dinner for Honorary Benchers The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer 21 Voga Longa Venice 48 South Africa Legal Conference September 2012 22 Bench Call of US Attorney General 50 The Valuable Work of CAFOD 24 Book Review: Child of Another Century 52 Book Review Free Country: selected lectures and talks 25 Deputy Treasurer Master Judge 53 Sir Sydney Kentridge’s 90th birthday 26 Valedictory for Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice celebrations 28 Interview with the Master of the Rolls 54 A Confiscation Judge abroad 30 Lent Reading: 56 The Inns and the Bar Re-engineering Civil Justice 58 The Advocacy Training Council Report 34 JUSTICE: A Reminder and Invitation 60 Book Review A Higher Duty 36 Are Human Rights Selfish? 61 Temple Women’s Forum 38 A History of the Inn’s Honorary Benchers 62 Training for Middle Temple Advocacy 39 A Portrait of Sir John Cust: the original Honorary Bencher 64 Autumn Reader 6 21 39 54 114 66 66 The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge 93 MT Society in Hong Kong Scholarships 94 UK Supreme Court judicial assistants’ visit to 67 A Visit from our Royal Bencher Washington DC 68 Fox Scholar 96 The Official Launch of the Malaysia Middle Temple Alumni Association 69 Scholars’ Dinner 98 Portrait of Sir Christopher Turnor 70 Scholarships and Prizes 2012-2013 100 The Edmund Plowden Trust celebrates 50 years 71 Book Review Islam and English Law 101 The Library’s Ecclesiastical Collection 72 A Year in the Middle Temple Students’ 102 Duelling, Fencing, Arms and Armour Association 104 Saving the Past 74 Debating 105 Book Review 76 Moot News Everyone! Legal Research: a Practitioner’s Handbook 78 Marshalling 106 Sir John Major’s visit to the Library 79 Marshalling appeal 107 Gillian Kalitsi: an obituary 80 Acid Violence 108 Pencil to Keyboard: 40 years in the Law 82 Human Rights Lawyers’ Association 111 Garden News Judicial Review Competition 114 Six Beards and a Bird in Antarctica 83 MT Young Barristers 118 Staff News 84 Connecting with the Future 119 Farewell to James Vivian 85 Annual Dinner: Thoughts on the British Establishment 120 Temple Church and Magna Carta 88 Revels: a Director’s Note 123 The Fleet Street Gatehouse 89 Liverpool Legal Walk 125 What Dr Johnson knew 90 MT Northern Circuit Dinner 127 Forthcoming events 92 Wales and Chester Circuit Dinner T REASURER’ S F OREWORD Foreword by Master Treasurer here have probably been will be reduced, and the number of London or abroad and the lack of upwards of 450 previous committee meetings and Parliaments connection can be easily explained. TTreasurers of the Inn, all of will also decrease. This is partly a I made a most enjoyable trip to whom, so far as one can tell, have reflection of good governance and Cardiff earlier this year for a dinner done a perfectly acceptable job. partly recognition of the fact that we with the MT members of the Wales Starting off one’s year as Treasurer have an extremely competent and Chester Circuit and received therefore comes with a degree of professional staff to run the Inn. some much-needed education about pressure. The good news is that the While it is important that the what the Inn could be doing for them. staff at Middle Temple look after the Benchers make the policy decisions to One of the results of that evening was Treasurer so well that the prospect of take the Inn forward, the day-to-day a dinner for those on circuit, in Hall a complete disaster is much running of the Inn can safely be left on Friday, 29 November 2013 and I diminished.