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...press. occasion was heralded with the same anxiety as news of the passing of Charles II. A great fear settled on the land--would the law and the bench survive Roddy's retirement?
This book is part of the cornucopia distributed by press agents to the devouring fourth estate, in sample bags like those at the Royal Easter Show. Described on the cover as a "parting gift" with "savagely witty" sketches of its subjects, it is said to illustrate "Roddy's spirit of irrepressible mischief-making". That is one way to describe the text. I feel sure that others will hold different opinions--including some of the thirty-five friends and colleagues chosen for "cheerful character assassinations" and still more those left out.
I hold the copyright over the idea that is now expressed in this book. However, I take no blame for the text, which is solely the work of the former Judge of Appeal of New South Wales, the Hun R.P. Meagher QC LLD (h.c.). When we sat together in the Court of Appeal, I would occasionally relieve a seriously tedious case by sketching my colleagues in the court and the more exuberant barristers appearing before us. Those who find this pastime difficult to believe can read about it in the essay on me in this collection. Indeed, it is just about the only factually accurate thing recorded there. By the time we were separated judicially, I had the portly sketch of R.P. Meagher down to a tee. Handley JA always appeared with a halo above his head to mark his manifest saintliness, a point picked up with typical understatement in the essay on him. The declaiming barristers were captured in every mood. I...
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