Second Helpings (Expanded edition, now including Last Scrapings)

“As the days passed, however, the thought of this old man, locked up in a prison cell, cut off from this family, grieving for a wife with whom he had lived lovingly for over half a century (true he had killed her but only because he could no longer bear to watch her suffering), got to me and filled me with gloom. Is there, I thought, really much point in being a judge if one cannot correct an injustice such as I now felt this to be?”

Lord Brown’s deep sense of social responsibility informs his decisions and opinions both as a judgeand a member of theSupreme Court. This book, with its expanded section, continues Simon Brown’s fascinating insight into a senior lawyer’s lifeand the exercise of his responsibilities.