Bon Vivant

Paul Hynes, Richard Furlong and Nathaniel Rudolf
Sweet and Maxwell, December 2008
ISBN 978-1-84703-133-4
Hardback, £169 

This book is a must for all professionals and practitioners—including lawyers, auditors, accountants, insolvency practitioners, notaries, trust and company service providers, public bodies and high value dealers—who are regulated and/or advise and represent, investigate or prosecute those accused of money laundering.   

Pat Hardy finds a continuum of history and a portrait collection of priceless artistic heritage at Lincoln’s Inn 

Martin Bowley shares his highlights of the Temple Festival 

Flexible working—hardly revolutionary, but underused at the Bar—is the answer to female retention. But it must be adequately rewarded, writes Melissa Coutino.  

Pat Hardy reviews Inner Temple’s portrait collection and finds a collection rich in both Restoration and contemporary works.  

Edited by Dominic Shellard
278 pages, paperback, ISBN 978-1854595430
Published 2008 by Nick Hern Books, £9.99 

Martin Bowley QC separates fact from fiction and marks the 40th anniversary of the abolition of theatre censorship 

Uncle Julian wishes all his readers a very Happy New Year and hopes the entire Bar is fully booked for 2009 (unlike Uncle Julian). Relaxing after my chambers’ Christmas luncheon, I was casually wiping off some Christmas pudding from my Vincent’s tie, when Sarah, my PA, asked me when the baby was due. This was too accurate a remark to be funny, so Uncle Julian has resolved to use his ample free time in the next 12 months to lose weight and to get fit. And now to my letters... 

Uncle Julian is on a busman’s holiday far away in the sun. Sarah, my PA, says that I should wear shorts and sandals in the evening “like all the other silks”. “Excuse me,” I replied, “I did not reach the magic height of 5ft at my prep school, thus entitling me to wear long trousers, only to revert to shorts 50 years later…and as to sandals...” Now to my questions... 

Tickets for the RSC Histories—eight plays, charting a century of the most turbulent years in English history, by the world’s greatest. 

7.30pm Thursday 13 March 2008. The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. The houselights dim. Jonathan Slinger as an outrageously effeminate king steps forward to deliver the opening line of “Richard II”: “Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster.”