Jonathan sumption qc biography of albert

‘For a start don’t assume things that have been written about me are necessarily true,’ says the much-profiled Lord Sumption, ahead of retirement from the Supreme Court in December He particularly dislikes the tag Brain of Britain, ‘said of me by a journalist 20 years ago.

Jonathan Sumption, a friend and former colleague, once described him as “the barrister's barrister [with] a moral stature that no amount of.

Jonathan Sumption, a friend and former colleague, once described him as “the barrister's barrister [with] a moral stature that no amount of.

Lord Sumption, 63, was a leading barrister, with clients including Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, before becoming a judge.

I am not immortal.

Lord Sumption is a former Justice of the Supreme Court and an awarding winning historian and author.

Jonathan Sumption, Lord Sumption OBE QC FSA FRHistS has famously been described as the cleverest man in Britain.

I’ve never been able to get rid of it. I’m no fool, but Brain of Britain? Idiotic.’

The reason for the tag? Eton, Magdalen College, Oxford, a first in history, a fellowship and, even after switching to law a few years later and becoming the leading advocate of his day, a parallel life as a historian, undertaking a five-volume history of the Hundred Years War.

History?

One of her colleagues, Jonathan Sumption, wrote Monday that judges operate in an "impossible political environment created by China." In an.

‘It goes back to when my father took me to bookshops and allowed me to choose what I wanted. History is accessible, even for a ten-year-old. At school I was bottom of everything. When I was 15 I said to myself: I’ve got to be good at something, sport or academic.

I’ve never been interested in sport, so I chose work instead