The anti-social behaviour of Horace Rumpole
By: John Mortimer
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781408413159; 9781408413166
Subjects: Legal stories; Restraining orders; Horace Rumpole (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: Anti-social Behaviour Orders may be the pride and joy of New Labour, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole - he takes the old-fashioned view that if anyone is going to be threatened with a restriction of their liberty then some form of legal proceeding ought to be gone through first. Not that Hilda agrees, of course, but she's too busy completing her memoirs to dissuade him from taking an interest when one of the Timson children is given an ASBO for playing football in the street. And pretty soon he realises something fishy is going on. Why are the residents pursuing their vendetta against the Timson boy quite so strongly? Could they have a sinister reason for not wanting him on their street?
Notes: Originally published: London: Viking, 2007.