THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NON-FICTION
DAGGER 'Thomas Grant has brought together Hutchinson's greatest
legal hits, producing a fascinating episodic cultural history of
post-war Britain that chronicles the end of deference and secrecy,
and the advent of a more permissive society . . . Grant brings out
the essence of each case, and Hutchinson's role, with clarity and
wit' Ben Macintyre, The Times 'An excellent book . . . Grant
recounts these trials in limpid prose which clarifies obscurities.
A delicious flavouring of cool irony, which is so much more
effective than hot indignation, covers his treatment of the small
mindedness and cheapness behind some prosecutions' Richard
Davenport-Hines, Guardian Born in 1915 into the fringes of the
Bloomsbury Group, Jeremy Hutchinson went on to become the greatest
criminal barrister of the 1960s, '70s and '80s. The cases of that
period changed society for ever and Hutchinson's role in them was
second to none. In Case Histories, Jeremy Hutchinson's most
remarkable trials are examined, each one providing a fascinating
look into Britain's post-war social, political and cultural
history. Accessibly and entertainingly written, Case Histories
provides a definitive account of Jeremy Hutchinson's life and work.
From the sex and spying scandals which contributed to Harold
Macmillan's resignation in 1963 and the subsequent fall of the
Conservative government, to the fight against literary censorship
through his defence of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Fanny Hill,
Hutchinson was involved in many of the great trials of the period.
He defended George Blake, Christine Keeler, Great Train robber
Charlie Wilson, Kempton Bunton (the only man successfully to
'steal' a picture from the National Gallery), art 'faker' Tom
Keating, and Howard Marks who, in a sensational defence, was
acquitted of charges relating to the largest importation of
cannabis in British history. He also prevented the suppression of
Bernardo Bertolucci's notorious film Last Tango in Paris and did
battle with Mary Whitehouse when she prosecuted the director of the
play Romans in Britain. Above all else, Jeremy Hutchinson's career,
both at the bar and later as a member of the House of Lords, has
been one devoted to the preservation of individual liberty and to
resisting the incursions of an overbearing state. Case Histories
provides entertaining, vivid and revealing insights into what was
really going on in those celebrated courtroom dramas that defined
an age, as well as painting a picture of a remarkable life. To
listen to Jeremy Hutchinson being interviewed by Helena Kennedy on
BBC Radio 4's A Law Unto Themselves, please follow the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04d4cpv You can also listen to him
on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ddz8m
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