- His clients included Christine Keeler, a model convicted of perjury for her role in the 1960s "Profumo affair", and Soviet spies George Blake and John Vassall. He was junior counsel (with lead defense attorney Gerald Gardiner) for his best-known case, defending Penguin Books against obscenity charges for publishing an uncensored version of D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover"; the defense prevailed.
- He studied at the University of Oxford, and began his legal career in 1939. He served in the British navy during WWII, surviving a bombing run that sank his ship during the Battle of Crete. Floating in the water for hours before being rescued, he sang to keep up morale and clung to wreckage alongside the ship's commander, Louis Mountbatten.
- Lawyer. Father of Nick Hutchinson. Grandfather of Manon Loizeau and Emily Loizeau (daughter Eliza's daughters).
- Solicitor, he is one of the basis of the character Rumpole of the Bailey created by his friend John Mortimer.
- He was a trustee and chairman for the Tate museum and helped establish its Tate Liverpool branch.
- Famously defended Kempton Bunton whom was on trial for the theft of Goya's "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington" from the National Gallery in London. The theft of said painting was adapted as both a radio drama named Kempton and Duke and as a film named The Duke with Jim Broadbent portraying the role of Kempton Bunton in the film.
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