![]() ![]() Rumpole's biggest legal commitment, at this point, is the case of Graham Wetherby, charged with the murder of a prostitute, a Russian immigrant, during his lunch hour. As Rumpole is grumbling about the absurdity of this order, he is served with his own ASBO-secured by his fellow barristers and staff-because he eats lunch, drinks Chateau Thames Embankment, and smokes cigarillos in chambers, behavior the rest of the group abhors. If there is any repetition of this, he will go to court. Peter has been served with an ASBO, an Anti-Social Behavior Order, because he has been playing ball in the street and has had to enter an exclusive neighborhood in order to retrieve his ball. Concerned with what he sees as a country-wide erosion of civil liberties, Rumpole is representing Peter Timson, a twelve-year-old member of the criminal clan of Timsons, which has provided Rumpole with a steady court income over the years. ![]() The irascible Horace Rumpole is definitely not mellowing with age. "I'm afraid what we have here is a case of premature adjudication." ( Jump over to read a review of Quite Honestly) ![]() Down to read a review of Rumpole and the Reign of Terror) ![]()
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