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Sir Oliver Popplewella''s career goes a long way to explode myths and to show what judges are really like: impartial, skilled in the law, above party politics certainly, but essentially human. He was certainly born into a comfortable middle-class family, but his upbringing was (to quote from Stephen Frya''s Foreword to this book) "more Betjeman Metroland than Wodehouse Mayfaira". Sir Oliver was ca...