![]() ![]() If they catch a glimpse of you on the Underground, or across a crowded wine bar, they will bury their faces in their newspapers or look studiously in the opposite direction. Even if you’ve steered them through the rocks of the prosecution case and brought them out to the calm waters of a not-guilty verdict, they won’t plan further meetings, host reunion dinners or even send you a card on your birthday. Your ex-customers will never want to see you again. In the varied ups and downs, the thrills and spills in the life of an Old Bailey hack, one thing stands as stone. Here are three samples of these entertaining stories. ![]() Rumpole and the Remembrance of Things Past Here are seven fresh and funny stories in which he triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he tiptoes precariously through the domestic territory of his wife Hilda - She Who Must Be Obeyed. Horace Rumpole - a defending lawyer never claimed he knew all the law, but he did know how to keep his clients out of prison. ![]()
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