In 1990, Lord Hutchinson, QC, recalled that throughout his career at the criminal Bar people would say to him, “I was very surprised to see you mixed up in a case like that.”Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories by Thomas Grant, QC (John Murray, £25), reminds us of the celebrated, and infamous, cases in which Hutchinson appeared, the skills he deployed, and the importance of the criminal defence advocate to the rule of law.

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