Lovely Lord Denning didnt have a potty mouth but did have a strong Hampshire accent apparently WAS chosen for the Profumo inquiry ( Denning I mean ) because his masters were reasonably certain he would concentrate on the girlie prostitute side and not the KGB side Justice Cocklecarrot was based on Sir Oliver Popplewell who did a lot of libel. -he was even...
Mr Justice Cocklecarrot was fictional character in 'Private Eye' back in the 1970s . It was never made clear who it was based on but Lord Denning was a strong contender.
Lovely Lord Denning didnt have a potty mouth but did have a strong Hampshire accent
apparently WAS chosen for the Profumo inquiry ( Denning I mean ) because his masters were reasonably certain he would concentrate on the girlie prostitute side and not the KGB side
Justice Cocklecarrot was based on Sir Oliver Popplewell who did a lot of libel. -he was even called out of retirement to hear a libel case under the old law as so many rules of libel were opposite to those of civil law [ once the claimant had shown the words might be libellous then the onus was on the defendant to prove they werent ]
Melford ( good old melly ) Stevenson said during the Kray case:
the Krays said only two true things - the leader for the crown is a pouf and the judge is bent ....
Melford ( good old melly ) Stevenson said during the Kray case:
the Krays said only two true things - the leader for the crown is a pouf and the judge is bent ....
I'd bet that remark wasn't widely reported.
Can we all agree that this which lifts aside the sombre mask associated with the players in courtroom dramas deserves BA?
The Krays were sentenced in the early 1960s over 50 years ago.
I was an avid reader of 'Private Eye' back in the late 60s. Mention of Justice Crocklecarrot brings it all back, along with 'Talking about Uganda' (meaning having illicit sex) and the phase 'Tired and emotional ' (meaning pi *** ed )
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Mr Justice Cocklecarrot, Did He Say Things Like 'you ***ing ****, I'm Limited In The Length Of Sentence I Can Impose.
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