Rather His Own Man
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The Trials of Oz playbill, Broadway, 1972
Brothers-in-law: with Tim, Elizabeth Bay, 1979
Hypotheticals, ‘Sign or We’ll Shoot’, with Michael Mansell (left) and John Kerr (right) (Photo courtesy of ABC TV)
An ABC special, ‘Affairs of the Heart’, on medical ethics. Even George Pell is amused. (Photo courtesy of ABC TV)
The line-up of a later Channel 7 episode, ‘Sea of Troubles’, 2000
Jen and the magic elephant, at Colin Tennant’s plantation, St Lucia, 1985
Bel Mooney, agony aunt in the making, Hayman Island, 1979
Jeananne Crowley, a Tenko survivor, 1982
Ring-cycling at Bayreuth (Photo by Robyn Burgess)
Taking silk – with Nigella, 1988
Outside the Central Criminal Court, London, 1999
Youngish love, at the Alan Jones Memorial Toilet (Photo by Alan’s arresting officer)
Fathering in Prague: with Georgie, 1993
With Kathy and the kids (Photo by Cliff Kent LPA/REX/Shutterstock)
Kylie with Georgie and Jules, 2002
At home, Swiss Cottage, a David Boyd judge from the Stuart case at my feet (Photo © David Chancellor, kiosk)
George Harrison teaches Jules, aged four, to play
Jules as Jason in Holby City (Photo courtesy of BBC TV)
With Jules, at Dick Smith’s, 2011 (Photo by Mark Tedeschi AM QC)
Treading on Georgie’s toes at le Bal, 2009. Dress by Collette Dinnegan
With Georgie, Opera on the Harbour, 2015 (Photo by Christian Gilles, Newspix)
President Georgie addresses the 2015 graduation ceremony at SOAS, London
Georgie rallies her troops to protest arrests of students
With John Mortimer, on Sydney Harbour aboard Joe Skryznski’s boat (Photo by Joe Skrzynski)
Entertaining at home: (left to right) Netti Mason, Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly, Kylie and Dannii Minogue
Founding Doughty Street Chambers, 1990, with (left to right) Gavin Millar, Chris Sallon, Helena Kennedy, Peter Thornton and Louis Blom-Cooper
In the Court of Penultimate Appeal, Hong Kong, with refugee clients and the flowers they gave me (Photo courtesy of the South China Morning Post)
My UN war crimes court, Sierra Leone, 2003
Kathy entertains the Queen. Note frown on the left. Can you spot my wringing hands? (Photo by John Stillwell/PA Archive/PA Images)
Talking Tyrannicide with David Williamson, 2005 (Photo by Mark Tedeschi AM QC)
Team Assange: Amal Clooney (obscured, for once), Mark Stephens, Julian Assange, author, John Jones and Jen Robinson, 2011 (Photo by Yui Mok, PA Images)
With Andrew Lloyd Webber and Mandy Rice-Davies at the launch of Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK, 2013 (Photo by John Stillwell/PA Images via Getty Images)
With Amal, in our Ede & Ravenscroft, at the European Court of Human Rights (Photo by AP/Christian Lutz)
Taking Yulia Tymoshenko’s case to the UN Human Rights Committee, Geneva: Amal Clooney (left) and Eugenia Tymoshenko (right), 2012 (Photo by Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images)
Like daughter, like father – protesting Legal Aid austerity cuts at the Ministry of Justice, 2013 (Photo by Pete Riches)
With the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, once ‘the most popular politician on Earth’, 2016
Reminiscing about John Bannon, with Bob Hawke and Bill Shorten, at Bannon’s state funeral, Adelaide, 2015 (Photo by AAP/Brenton Edwards)
‘My three sons.’ Joy and Frank with Tim, Graeme and me, in our middle ages
With Mum and Dad celebrating Joy’s ninetieth birthday at the Banjo Paterson Cottage Restaurant (Photo by John Fairley)
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Rather His Own Man
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