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Ask Uncle Julian

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... 

31 December 2008
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Inner Temple Portraiture

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

31 December 2008
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Ask Uncle Julian - July 2008

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... 

30 June 2008

Barrister's best: Olly Jarvis

The barrister and crime-fact/crime-fiction producer is still a hippie at heart; his cultural life and times
 

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