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John Upton: George Carman, 9 May 2002
No Ordinary Man: A Life of George Carman
by Dominic Carman.
Hodder, 331 pp., £18.99, January 2002,0 340 82098 5 Show More
by Dominic Carman.
Hodder, 331 pp., £18.99, January 2002,
“... George Carman QC, the best known British advocate of his time, died of cancer on 2 January last year. Shortly afterwards, the Daily Telegraph published an obituary which listed the famous criminal and libel cases he had won, and examined his ferocious court-room reputation before concluding: ‘Away from work, Carman was a reasonably enthusiastic guest on the party circuit, but essentially lived a quiet life ... ”