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The Water Cooler

* That grandee of the Bar, <b>Sir Sydney Kentridge</b>, has turned 85. To mark the occasion his chambers, Brick Court, has commissioned a <b>portrait</b> from <b>Howard J. Morgan</b>. The charcoal work was recently unveiled by Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, the Lord Chief Justice, who described Sir Sydney as a “legend” and reminded guests that by the time Sir Sydney joined Brick Court in 1977 his reputation was already established. He had appeared in the inquest into the death of Steve Biko and was well established as a thorn in the side of the apartheid regime. And, Lord Phillips said, he had been appointed senior counsel in 1965, before most of the audience was even born — and been elected chairman of the Johannesburg Bar in 1972.

Full post as published by International and UK Law on April 07, 2008 (boomark / email).