Playing Off The Roof & Other Stories by Simon Brown

Playing Off The Roof & Other Stories by Simon Brown

Written with humour and insight, this informal memoir is a delightful celebration of the passions that have driven Simon Brown's life.

Whether recalling incidents from his early years as a barrister (courageously breaking away from the family business) or as Treasury Devil, or during the later stages of his legal career (ending as a Justice of the Supreme Court) - or whether talking about his family, telling us his golfing tales, or describing his enjoyment of the Garrick and his many travels around the world - he exudes a zest and delight in what he does and an affection for those he works with and meets that is a deeply endearing characteristic. Friendship is a constant theme, the pleasure he takes in other people. It is this extraordinary energy and enthusiasm for life that defines Simon Brown and lends this memoir its huge attraction.

Brown, Simon: - Simon Brown (Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood) was born in Sheffield in 1937 and studied History at Worcester College, Oxford before switching to Law. Called to the Bar in 1961, he became Treasury Devil (First Junior Treasury Counsel) in 1979. There followed a distinguished career on the Bench: appointed to the High Court in 1984, he was successively a Court of Appeal judge and a Law Lord. Retiring from the Supreme Court in 2012, he now sits in the House of Lords as a working crossbench peer. Simon Brown has been married since 1963 and has three children and five grandchildren.

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ISBN 13	9781838303600
ISBN 10	183830360X
Title	Playing Off The Roof & Other Stories
Author	Simon Brown
Series	Memoirs
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Marble Hill Publishers
Year published	2021-02-15
Number of pages	244
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