"Compelling, dazzling, breathless - a vivid, fascinating account of a richly diverse life, full of interest, charm and wit."Lord Brown of Eaton-under-HeywoodMichael Beloff, previously QC, once described as -the Bar-s Renaissance Man-, has had a distinguished career as advocate, arbitrator, and judge. An outsider of mixed Russian Jewish heritage with four immigrant grandparents and immigrant mother, he had an insider-s education as a scholar at Eton and Oxford, with a professional life culminating in his offices as President of Trinity, one of the most famous of the historic Oxford Colleges and Treasurer of Gray-s, one of the four mediaeval Inns of Court. In this candid story he reflects on the development of his vocation through its various staging posts from his childhood to his swan song as barrister after fifty years in practice, highlighting his most important cases, in particular those with a political dimension as well as a quintet of high profile libels. He uses his perso
