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Treat yourself to Second Helpings and more choice cuts in the style of Simon Brown's much lauded first volume of memoirs, Playing off the Roof & Other Stories. Exuberantly revisiting his early years in National Service, at Oxford and as a young barrister, Lord Brown recalls matters grave and trivial from his time at the Bar and on the Bench, along the way regaling us with tales of Paddington Bear, Nigel Lawson and Mozart at the Warsaw opera. He also has something to say about the current legal scene and considers such thorny problems as the 2019 prorogation judgment and whether trial by jury might be dispensed with in order to clear a mounting backlog of criminal cases. Drawing witty lessons from a life of trials, Lord Brown finds time to muse on when a judge might choose to change a sentence already imposed, what to say after dinner and why the game of golf is strictly for the birds!

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Beautifully written ... Second Helpings is like a buffet loaded with delicious sweetmeats. You can look at the menu and select what attracts you. Even if you do as I did and work continuously through the whole array you will not end by feeling overindulged. - Robin Butler Simon Brown writes as he speaks, with humanity, humour and self-deprecation. His eyes are wide to the world or crinkled in a grin. Second Helpings is a rare treat. Please sir, I want some more. - Shami Chakrabarti You can never have too many helpings of Simon Brown. - Peter Hennessy A view from the Bar and Bench which combines a string of amusing anecdotes with important insights into our legal system. - Jeffrey Jowell I really enjoyed Second Helpings. Simon Brown has that elusive quality which the eighteenth century called 'bottom': a combination of wisdom, experience, empathy and humour. - Jonathan Sumption

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Simon Brown (Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood) was born in Sheffield in 1937 and studied History at Worcester College, Oxford before switching to Law. Called to the Bar in 1961, he became Treasury Devil (First Junior Treasury Counsel) in 1979. There followed a distinguished career on the Bench: appointed to the High Court in 1984, he was successively a Court of Appeal judge and a Law Lord. Retiring from the Supreme Court in 2012, he now sits in the House of Lords as a working crossbench peer. Simon Brown has been married since 1963 and has three children and five grandchildren.

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