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As Far as I Remember (Paperback)
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As Far as I Remember (Paperback)
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This candidly written autobiography of Sir Michael Kerr chronicles
the life of one of Britains most prominent judges of the 70s and
80s from his Continental childhood up to his career in the Court of
Appeal and beyond. In the first part of his memoir,the author
traces his family history and Germanic roots. His father, Alfred
Kerr, was a well-known dramatic critic and essayist, whose writings
were widely known throughout Germany from the turn of the century
and have recently seen a resurrection, 50 years after his death, as
related in the last chapter of the book. But because of the fame of
his anti-Nazi writings and broadcasts, the Kerrs were forced to
flee from Berlin as early as 3 March 1933, when Hitler came to
power. The author and his sister Judith, later to become a famous
author of childrens books, had a relatively happy cosmopolitan
childhood in Zurich, Paris, Nice and ultimately England. But their
parents lives remained on the edge of poverty and sometimes despair
and there was never again a family home. The memoirs then tell of
his years at Aldenham School and the beginnings of Cambridge, and
of his assimilation into the English way of life. They relate the
story of his internment as an enemy alien in 1940 and of his
subsequent release and service as a pilot in the Royal Air Force
until the end of World War II. The author then returned to
Cambridge to finish his law degree and was urged to go the Bar. The
later chapters of this autobiography are mainly devoted to the law.
They recount the authors career as a leading commercial Junior and
then a Silk, his initial hesitations about the Bench, but
ultimately culminating in his appointment as a Lord Justice of
Appeal. He describes the Bar of the post-war decades and is frank
about the frustrations and disappointments of his career. He also
provides insights into the oddities of the English legal system,
but maintaining throughout his firm belief in the importance of an
independent Bar.
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