Just answer me that. I will tell you why he's never going to be made a High Court judge. Robertson took those calls, fought some famous cases very well, prospered hugely and after thirty years has reached that legal plateau where only the mountain range of the high judiciary is left for him to conquer. Now he's written The Justice Game which lays out a version of his career from Abbie Hoffman saved at Heathrow in 1971 to the Tory sleeze Neil Hamilton destroyed in 1996. He's caused havoc to the Establishment yet argues on his own behalf that he's a cap to be trusted.
Sounder still is the pervading optimism of The Justice Game .
He admits the Establishment is as mired as ever in self-regard. He's good on what he calls 'the canker of cover up'. The argument he makes for a bill of rights is as persuasive for Australia as it is for Britain. Yet in all his years in London he hasn't lost faith in the high romance of the Bar. He claims the Law as portrayed by writers and dramatists is caught in a time warp.