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‘It is something to have lived through this century- the most dangerous century in the history of the English people. Our family has one its part. All five of us brothers fought in the wars. Two were lost. They were the best of us. Three survive. One to become a General. One an Admiral. And me, the Master of the Rolls. Some day, if I have time, I will tell the family story’. (Lord Denning,  The Discipline of Law)

In telling his own part in the story, Lord Denning including mentionsof some of the most famous, and some of the most notorious, law casesof our times. These include the unfinished case of Stephen Ward,Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice Davies, the horrifying 1974 Birminghampub-bombings, the British Steel Corporation ‘mole’, and the strangecase of Grenouille v National Union of Seamen, reported in Not Yet TheTimes in 1970
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Contents
Book One Before the Wars
Section One The Start
1.    The background
2.    At home
3.    The environment
4.    Education
Section Two The First World War
       Introduction
1.    Jack the eldest son
2.    Reg the Second son
3.    Gordon the third son
4.    Tom the fourth son
Section Three Tom’s next twenty years
       Introduction
1.    Marriage
2.    At the Bar
Section Four The Second World War
       Introduction
1.    Norman the fifth son
2.    Reg continues in service
3.    Tom- again in service
Book Two After the war
       Introduction
1.    Cuckfield
2.    Lincoln’s Inn
3.    Back to Whitchurch
Section Six Tom in the Courts
1.    A judge of first instance
2.    In the Court of Appeal
3.    In the House of Lords
Section Seven Tom – Master of the Rolls
Section Eight Tom – in other roles
Epilogue
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Master of the Rolls